All Orthodox please take poll . . . from what did you convert from?

[Asinner]

A friendly protestant in NT is skeptical that most of the Orthodox converts came from a protestant background. Since there is no formal document on the number of protestant converts to Orthodoxy, I thought TAW would be a good place to start. :)

Love,
Christina

[Asinner]

After voting, please post and let us know which protestant church/apostolic church you converted from. Thanks!:)

Love,
Christina

[silouanathonite]

What about the agnostics? I feel so left out. I was pentecostal before that. So I guess I'll have to vote that.

[Asinner]

I am a convert from the church of Christ (Stone/Campbell movement), aka ., protestant. :wave:

[Asinner]

What about the agnostics? I feel so left out. I was pentecostal before that. So I guess I'll have to vote that.


oops. :sorry: Can I add that in?

[Shubunkin]

Church of God (baptised there), Evangelical Covenant Church, and then Lutheran.

[Asinner]

Church of God (baptised there), Evangelical Covenant Church, and then Lutheran.

Good thing I lumped Lutherans in with the protestants. :D

[Thekla]

Baptised and raised UCC

sporadic Church attendance as adult - but when I did, attended a Mennonite Church.

[Asinner]

attended a Mennonite Church.

Very unique. :)

[Thekla]

my husband was baptised as an infant, but his family is non-professing;
his mother is an atheist, his dad was "lapsed Catholic"

[Theophorus]

I was a campbellite.

[Protoevangel]

I used to be Lutheran.

But my doctor says I'm much better now! ;)

[Asinner]

I used to be Lutheran.

But my doctor says I'm much better now! ;)

^_^

[InnerPhyre]

Recovering Catholic




















It's a joke! Don't take offense, Catholic bros and sisters :)

[Sothron]

United Methodist Church for over twenty something years. Still love the music but reject the false teachings.

[cobweb]

Mostly non-denominational protestant (Vineyard style stuff) although I have briefly attended Charismatic, free-Holiness, Baptist, AOG, Conservative Mennonite, Vineyard, Methodist, and non-denominational House Churches over the years. Most recently I spent a few years as an atheist.

I've been visting a GOARCH Church for a little over a year now and would like to officially convert in the future.

[RobNJ]

You can only select one, so I didn't bother to vote! ;)

Reformed (Calvinist), then a couple of years in an Anglo-Catholic Episcopal parish.. now here I am! :wave:

[Khaleas]

Baptized and Confirmed Lutheran but I just called myself Lutheran on paper (since in Finland you actually belong to a church in the state's eyes) as the only time I took communion was at confirmation.
I left the Lutheran church when I was 19, still considered myself Christian though...

[Uphill Battle]

oops. :sorry: Can I add that in?
I can, if you'd like. Although, I'm a theology mod, I wouldn't want to step on Congregational toes.

[Asinner]

I can, if you'd like. Although, I'm a theology mod, I wouldn't want to step on Congregational toes.

Yes. Thank you. :)

[RobNJ]

oops. :sorry: Can I add that in?


Threw in agnostic & other ;)

[Asinner]

Threw in agnostic & other ;)

It's my first time polling.:blush:

Thank you.:hug:

[Uphill Battle]

Threw in agnostic & other ;)
FFR, would someone not of congregational staff doing something like that be considered crossing the picket lines? or is only mod actions?

(after answer, I will cease with the off topic chatter.)

[Mary of Bethany]

Southern Baptist for 37 years - baptized there (twice :eek: ), then Anglican Catholic for 10 years.


Mary

[Breaking Babylon]

A fellow ex-Campbellite here. Protestant.

[jckstraw72]

non-denom

[Mary of Bethany]

Not putting this in the poll, of course, but to give an idea - in my small parish (we average 100-120 on Sunday mornings) about half of our parish are "cradle" Orthodox, mostly from Russia & Eastern Europe.

The other half are converts, including our young Priest, who grew up in a Charismatic church. Others I know specifically are converts from Baptist, Episcopalian, "emergent church", Presbyterian, Lutheran, Church of Christ, Non-denom, plus there are RCs, atheist/agnostic converts.

Our Archbishop grew up Southern Baptist. Most of the Priests in our Diocese grew up in various protestant churches. The priest of a parish in Colorado Springs is a former Young Life leader. A well known former Lutheran pastor is now an Orthodox priest in the Detroit area.

I mean . . . . . we could go on and on to, if not prove, at least illustrate, our point.

Mary

[Protoevangel]

My congregation is much the same as Mary's. My Priest is ex-Baptist. We have a whole host of ex-Protestants from many traditions.

[Jacob4707]

All Orthodox please take poll . . . from what did you convert from?


A friendly protestant in NT is skeptical that most of the Orthodox converts came from a protestant background. Since there is no formal document on the number of protestant converts to Orthodoxy, I thought TAW would be a good place to start. :)

Love,
Christina

I converted from Dangling Prepositionism.

(And ... from nearly 3 decades as a Non-Denominational/Charismatic/Evangelical Protestant.)

[nestoj]

Cradle here.

You lack a option for converts from Islam - I know we have some of them here.

nestoj
God helps

edit: Or you think of them under "Other"???

[RobNJ]

FFR, would someone not of congregational staff doing something like that be considered crossing the picket lines? or is only mod actions?

(after answer, I will cease with the off topic chatter.)

If you did, I could always put in a good word for ya, to the local Admin. He's probably let it slide! ;)

[paleodoxy]

I converted from an Evangelical Anglican church, of which I was a member for only 18 months. Before that I had been Presbyterian since a child. I cinverted from Calvinism/Reformed theology.

[nutroll]

I am one of the cradle Orthodox, but since sometimes people think that Orthodoxy is an ethnic thing, I thought it might help to point out that I am not "ethnically" Orthodox. My father's family was Lutheran, and he converted. My mother was raised Presbyterian and still is Presbyterian. My brother and my sisters and I were all baptized Orthodox, and raised in a mixed home...

[kamikat]

I was raised in a mixed home, Catholic and Orthodox, never really believed until my mid-20s, attended a moderate coC for a year, returned to Catholicism, then converted to Orthodoxy.

[seashale76]

I was Assemblies of God for about 21 years, Southern Baptist for about two years, and attended an Independent Christian Church for another two years off and on.

[TrueHope]

In my lifetime, I have been Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Unitarian Universalist, then I met my hubby....and Here I am! So glad to have found home!

[hungrytiger]

Church of Christ

They didn't really like to call themselves Protestant, but that's what I voted in this poll.

[EricTheRed]

I was Baptist...once in awhile. Didn't really practice that often.

[disasm]

Methodist, CMA, Baptist, Charismatic, Reformed Presbyterian, Non-denom bible teaching, Orthodox in that order. Was raised Methodist and loved it growing up, but moved to State College and couldn't find a good Methodist Church I liked, so I hopped, debated with the Willard Preacher over protestantism, stopped going to Church for a while, a bunch of friends converted to Orthodoxy over a 2 year span, so I started reading lots about bible translations and Church History to talk them into being Protestant again, and then had that Oh Shoot! moment, realizing I was wrong and they were right :-P Inquiring ever since :-D

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me the sinner.

[Oblio]

Converted from Southern Baptism as did DW but she rarely posts here.

[Orthosdoxa]

Converted from hardcore fundie Baptist, yo, as did DH.

[JustinHesychast]

Baptist.

[Dorothea]

Cradle Orthodox here who only went to a Greek Orthodox Church around a handful of times while visiting my yiayia over the summers we were stationed in Germany. It wasn't until my mid 20s that I came to my church and started to learn about it. :)

[Friul]

Traditional Roman Catholicism, here. I twas Papist through and through. :priest:

Seems Protestantism has a comfy lead.

[Grigorii]

I converted from Pentecostalism.

[ByzantineDixie]

Cradle Roman Catholic, converted to Lutheranism early in my marriage and then converted to Orthodoxy after an intensive study of Lutheranism!

(Hey cobweb, good to see you here! :wave: )

[SeraphimSarov]

Grew up Roman Catholic, then was Roman Catholic with some evangelical influence (which made me not RC at all really, haha) for many of my teen years, then plain ol' Catholic again after that, and then finally rejected it altogether and am now in the process of catechesis in the Antiochian church.

[Philothei]

Hey nice to see you all "craddle and all" lol....
I am craddle... but in my teens I was an agnostic (sometimes) not attending church. It was in my young adult years and going to college here at US that I studied my faith, and happy that I did!

God bless,
Philothei

[buzuxi02]

I never found Christ because i never lost him. Cradle Orthodox here.

[OrthoCanuck]

Bapized Catholic, raised Anglican, converted to Islam, returned to Catholicism (while flirting with Lutheranism), finally came to Orthodoxy


Peace.

[rusmeister]

I voted 'agnostic', as at the time of my conversion I had been agnostic for 20 years (the lazy "I don't care to think about it" variety), but I was raised Baptist and my thinking was formed along those lines. For theological purposes, I consider myself a convert from the Baptists, so you can add me to your count of ex-Protestants.

Wish it could've been possible to indicate both.

[icedtea]

I haven't Yet, but when I do, it will have been from non denominationism. or protestantism in general.

[KoolKat]

i'm cradle Orthodox. :)

[Shubunkin]

Good thing I lumped Lutherans in with the protestants. :D
That was a good call! :thumbsup:

[Chacci]

Born and baptized Roman Catholic with very devout parents. Back then, I would've charecterized my self as a "ChEaster" - That is I attended only on Christmas and Easter. I even attended a RC university for Graduate studies, where I went to Church for the opening mass and the graduation mass - that was it!

Now, I'm a regular Weds, Sat, Sun Orthodox Christian at the local Antiochian Mission.

[EmperorConstantine]

I voted other.

I was raised Roman Catholic. When I was 15-16 I considered myself a "closet Agnostic".

Last year at around April-June I tried Catholicism again, but didn't take. Long story short: I ended up Orthodox and my life has changed since.

[nikostheater]

I am crandle orthodox.

[icedtea]

;)

[Asinner]

Interestingly, this is a fairly accurate ratio of my parish of about 300.

Can we perhaps extrapolate from this poll, that there are more disatisfied protestants than Catholic/Anglican?

Love,
Christina

[Mary of Bethany]

Well, unfortunately, there are a lot of dissatisfied Anglicans out there right now - but they're dissatisfied with a particular Anglican body, not so much with Anglicanism itself. If they feel the need to switch parishes or jurisdictions, it's usually still within Anglicanism.


Mary

[The Virginian]

A friendly protestant in NT is skeptical that most of the Orthodox converts came from a protestant background. Since there is no formal document on the number of protestant converts to Orthodoxy, I thought TAW would be a good place to start. :)

Love,
Christina

National Baptist as a pagan, then Charismatic Presbyterian, Southern Baptist (kept that under wraps), United Methodist.
However; I am (and others may be), slightly confused. You seem to infer that there's a difference being cradle Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and being converted to Orthodox. How does one "convert" from being Orthodox, to being Orthodox?

[Asinner]

National Baptist as a pagan, then Charismatic Presbyterian, Southern Baptist (kept that under wraps), United Methodist.
However; I am (and others may be), slightly confused. You seem to infer that there's a difference being cradle Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and being converted to Orthodox. How does one "convert" from being Orthodox, to being Orthodox?


I'm sorry. I wanted to leave an option for everyone to vote. I am mainly interested in the converts to Orthodoxy and from what background they are from.

Love,
Christina