Dust and Ashes
15th April 2006, 05:52 PM
Please say a prayer for my cousin. He and his wife will most likely be enrolled as catechumens soon and when he asked me about ideas for a patron, St. John Chrysostom jumped to my mind immediately because he has such a good grasp of Orthodox theology and is a very eloquent and compelling orator. He liked the suggestion so I'll call him John for the purposes of this thread.
Just yesterday he told me of a "debate" that had happened at his inlaws with a visiting pastor's wife. It didn't get ugly and she seemed very intrigued by some his points and asked for some websites to visit and he pointed her to oca.org and the site for our parish. His father-in-law checked in and seemed to get upset when he very effectively countered his Baptist doctrines with Orthodox explanations.
He lurks here from time to time and I email him links to interesting threads. I'm just concerned that they may decide to have an intervention or something and might attack him or Orthodoxy. It might not happen but this is a little country Baptist church and many of them have expressed strong anti-Catholic leanings in the past so I wouldn't put it past them to do something.
Anyway, please say a prayer for him that God will strengthen him and guide them as they make their Eastward journey. They are visiting his wife's former church tomorrow because it is a family tradition and she doesn't want to upset her family. Thank you.
Just yesterday he told me of a "debate" that had happened at his inlaws with a visiting pastor's wife. It didn't get ugly and she seemed very intrigued by some his points and asked for some websites to visit and he pointed her to oca.org and the site for our parish. His father-in-law checked in and seemed to get upset when he very effectively countered his Baptist doctrines with Orthodox explanations.
He lurks here from time to time and I email him links to interesting threads. I'm just concerned that they may decide to have an intervention or something and might attack him or Orthodoxy. It might not happen but this is a little country Baptist church and many of them have expressed strong anti-Catholic leanings in the past so I wouldn't put it past them to do something.
Anyway, please say a prayer for him that God will strengthen him and guide them as they make their Eastward journey. They are visiting his wife's former church tomorrow because it is a family tradition and she doesn't want to upset her family. Thank you.