This feature article is about Christian Unity.

Don't call yourself a Christian if you do not believe what the Apostle Paul taught that we are all one in Christ Jesus.

Some months ago, a young man contacted me via Yahoo Personals. I became his friend. He responded to my personal ad.

This young man whom I will only call by his first name,
Jonathan, responded to my personal ad. In my personal
I make no secret I am a Christian and Catholic.

In my perferences I put I am looking for either a Christian and it can be either a Practicing Christian Catholic or Protestant. I perfer non-smokers and only occassional
drinkers.

I live in a state where roughly most people are Catholic
and within my Archdiocese there is 5.5 million Christian Catholics.
Los Angeles has more per land mass, and we have more per body count.

Jonathan and I started yahoo IMing each other and for a while I was helping him out with a problem regarding his own denominational problem. He attends the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. A small off shot of the Presbyterian Church of USA and America.

The Orthodox Presbyterian Church still refers to Christian Catholics as "Papists", as if they have not progressed past the 17th century. In fact, OPC only fellowships with other "Reformed" Christian Churches.

For a list of these churches go to http://OPC.org and you will find a list of the "Reformed" Churches the OPC will
fellowship with. Any others not with in their list they will
not even fellowship with. In fact, they believe like so many other psuedo-Christian cults they have a monopoly of the "Kingdom of God" and all other Christians will go to hell.


This particular off shot of the Presbyterian Church does not promote Christian unity and enumercism between
other Christians.

For the record: I was adopted and raised in a Christian Protestant family. My adoptive dad was a Methodist and my adoptive mom was a Southern Baptist.

My adoptive parents allowed all of us to chose our own spiritual paths. They did not force us to chose either Methodist or Southern Baptist. I have been to both churches.

Through the course of my spiritual development and all
I had gone through several Christian Protestant denominations. The first was from 1977-1985 and I attended the Assembly of God Church.
I then entered the Seventh Day Adventist Church and was in the SDA church from 1985-1993 and from 1993-1995 I attended the Seventh Day Church of God.

It was the autumn of 1995, I entered into the RCIA program at St. Ita Parish and on Easter Vigil of 1996 I received all three of my Christian Sacraments.

The Lord himself, lead me into the One True and Apostlic Church. She may have her problems, but atleast it is not divided and it is trying to establish enumerical dialogue between her Christian Protestant brothers and sisters
and herself.

Since my conversion, most of my family has now become a Christian Catholic. We were raised in a Christian Protestant family. But we have all found our way home to the Holy Mother Church.

Christianity is divided. Especially the Protestant branches of the church. Methodists do not get along with Baptists, The American Conference does not get along with the Southern Conference of Baptists.

The Church of Christ does not get along with the Disciples of Christ, because over the simple matter of music.

I mean, what more can one say.

Not to much the Presbyterian Church is divided into three branches as is the Lutheran Church.

Even some of the Pentecostal churches are divided and do not see eye to eye. One can not say that about the Catholic church.

Yes indeed, I had to end an online friendship yesterday.
All because I could not reach someone with common sense and all.

Regrettable religion causes a lot of division.

May We All Be One.

Karissa Anne