Former Denominations?

[Anemone]

If this thread has already been done please forgive me for being such a dork.

Out of curiosity, did any of you come out of any other denomination before coming to Lutheranism?

I came to Lutheranism (LCMS) after being a member of the United Church of Christ for several years.

[BreadAlone]

I was a Baptized Catholic till I was three or four..

My mom was "Catholic" but wasn't really part of the whole "God/Church" thing. My dad was also a catholic.

When we moved from Florida to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we joined a WELS church because the tuition for school was free as compared to the thousands of dollars at the local catholic church/school..

[DaSeminarian]

If this thread has already been done please forgive me for being such a dork.

Out of curiosity, did any of you come out of any other denomination before coming to Lutheranism?

I came to Lutheranism (LCMS) after being a member of the United Church of Christ for several years.


I grew up in the Lutheran Church (LCMS) left for 15 years to try my luck in American Evangelicalism and came back through the ELCA in 2000 and in 2003 was back in the LCMS. I am now attending Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN.

What's yer story?

[Confess]

Baptized Catholic and remained for 17 years

Went Penecostal

Joined an ELCA congregation

Have been in the LCMS for 13 years now, leaving it for only a few months for an independant Lutheran congregation before we moved to another state.

[DaRev]

I was born and raised Roman Catholic...


...but I'm all better now. :)

[KimLCMS]

I was baptised Catholic in elementary school. After confirmation Mom stopped taking me to church. A couple of years before I got married I started attending a Southern Baptist Church. We became members before we were married - were members for about 7 or 8 years.
We are now members of a LCMS congregation. We have been for about 5 years. All of our children were baptised there.

[ctay]

Born and bred LCMS

[synger]

Raised Presbyterian. Ordained an elder. Married a Baptist.

Came to LCMS through studying confessions and doctrine, particularly as it relates to the Theology of the Cross and the Sacraments.

[Lupinus]

Baptised and "raised" RC. We were the typical Catholic but never went to church family.

From there I went pagan for several years. Never really felt at home there though and after a year or so of pretty much no religious activity at all came to the LCMS.

[Jim47]

I was born and raised Roman Catholic...


...but I'm all better now. :)


Say who? :P

[BreadAlone]

Wow..it's weird how many RC converts we have here in Lutheranism!! :P :D
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[DaRev]

Ha! They make the best Lutherans!! :P

[WildStrawberry]

I was hatched LCMS (well, after I was adopted :D)

Gonna be matched LCMS

Please God, I'll be dispatched LCMS.

*G*

Kae

[Radiata]

So here's my story. I was born LCMS. I shall die LCMS. However, my dad was raised Catholic. My mother was Lutheran when she met my dad. They almost didn't get married because the priest refused to have a mixed marriage. So.. they fired him. My father decided that he didn't like the RCC, and then it just so happens that my father chose LCMS not because my mother was, but because after many years of Christian experience, he decided that this is the best one. My father is amazing. People come up to him all the time and say, "Hey, I know you. You change lives."

[Aibrean]

Raised Brethren...went to a Christian Missionary Alliance church from 5th grade to post college, then decided I didn't like where the church was. I took a siesta and my brother did some church/denomination/subdenomination researching and found Lutheran to be closely tied to our beliefs.

I come to find out my grandmothers side is all Lutheran.

[Anemone]

Quite a few Catholic converts.

As I said, I was in the United Church Of Christ before coming to LCMS. In junior high, a friend invited me to a UCC church with her.

The UCC is a liberal denomination. Being unchurched growing up, I thought all church was like that so I didn't see anything wrong. I was baptised and confirmed there.

My father (who started attending the UCC after I did) was raised and confirmed LCMS. Of course he felt uncomfortable there. Now that I look back on it, it was more of a country club than a church.

An LCMS pastor and his family live next door to us so we decided to give his church a try. We have been members there for a couple of years now.

That's my story. I still have many struggles with faith so please pray for me.

[Aibrean]

Quite a few Catholic converts.

As I said, I was in the United Church Of Christ before coming to LCMS. In junior high, a friend invited me to a UCC church with her.

The UCC is a liberal denomination. Being unchurched growing up, I thought all church was like that so I didn't see anything wrong. I was baptised and confirmed there.

My father (who started attending the UCC after I did) was raised and confirmed LCMS. Of course he felt uncomfortable there. Now that I look back on it, it was more of a country club than a church.

An LCMS pastor and his family live next door to us so we decided to give his church a try. We have been members there for a couple of years now.

That's my story. I still have many struggles with faith so please pray for me.
read my sig :) it's very uplifting during trying times

[Anemone]

Thank you Aibrean. :)

[jeh5]

Born and raised in the United Methodist Church. In High School I joined a local LCMS church, then in College I joined an ELCA church, and now I am a meber of both. :)

Jason

[ctay]

Born and raised in the United Methodist Church. In High School I joined a local LCMS church, then in College I joined an ELCA church, and now I am a meber of both. :)

Jason
Hi welcome to the forums!!

[ctay]

Thank you Aibrean. :)
Welcome to the forums!!!!!

[Anemone]

Thank you Ctay.

[WildStrawberry]

Oh man. My manners aren't very good are they? Blame it on the Lunar Eclipse!!

Welcome to the boards, Anemone. You'll learn lots! I sure do!

Kae

[Anemone]

Everyone here has been very kind. What a blessing.

[DaSeminarian]

Everyone here has been very kind. What a blessing.

I find that when new people come here they either come here truly inquiring what Lutherans minds know or they come looking to push what they believe on us. If you're the former we love to have you, but if you're the latter we tend to dig our claw in the ground and prepare to fight.

You appear to have fallen in the former category and we have great respect for you. Please continue to grace our forum with your presence.

[Zecryphon]

If this thread has already been done please forgive me for being such a dork.

Out of curiosity, did any of you come out of any other denomination before coming to Lutheranism?

I came to Lutheranism (LCMS) after being a member of the United Church of Christ for several years.
I started out as an Evangelical Free and then I was a non-denom, before becoming a Lutheran.

[Orion567]

If this thread has already been done please forgive me for being such a dork.

Out of curiosity, did any of you come out of any other denomination before coming to Lutheranism?

I came to Lutheranism (LCMS) after being a member of the United Church of Christ for several years.

First of all, welcome to the forums Anemone. I was raised Southern Baptist due to my parents influence. It was in my adult life I read about Martin Luther and was curious about Lutheran denom. I attended an Adult Information Class at an LCMS church with my wife and we have been hooked since.

[Orion567]

Happy birthday Bread Alone. :wave:

[KimLCMS]

Everyone here has been very kind. What a blessing.
I think I forgot to welcome you too. Sorry.

Welcome!

[QuiltAngel]

Anemone, welcome to TCL. Glad to have you here.

I was baptised and raised Presbyterian. After high school, joined a LCA church (now part of ELCA). Met and married my husband who was and is LCMS. Joined the LCMS and have been here ever since.

Also, many of the new members we have are former Catholics. They usually marry one of our members and join.

[Luther073082]

I came to Lutheranism from Atheism. Which is not a denomination but trust me, it is a religion.

Actually I personally think it takes more faith to belive that there is no God then it takes to belive that there is. . .

[Melethiel]

If this thread has already been done please forgive me for being such a dork.

Out of curiosity, did any of you come out of any other denomination before coming to Lutheranism?

I came to Lutheranism (LCMS) after being a member of the United Church of Christ for several years.
Baptigelical.

[DaRev]

Wow! There are a lot of folks here who once were lost but now are found. :thumbsup:

[CaliforniaJosiah]

UCC and RCC...

[Rion]

Raised Baptist. Seeing how I have Scrupulosity, I can assure you was not beneficial to me .

[TCat]

Became a Christian when I was 5, and was baptised in the Southern Baptist church. Switched and confirmed as a Methodist at the age of 13 and considered myself such for 3 years til I left God and Church for 20 years.
Now a member of a terrific LCMS church.
I am a Christian who is a member of an LCMS church.

[FaithfulRemnant]

I'm not officially Lutheran, but the vast majority of what I believe agrees with the Lutheran confessions. I was raised pentecostal/word-of-faith, joined a baptist church, was baptized in a baptist church, joined the Roman Catholic Church later also. I attend a Lutheran church at this time, but I just like to call myself a high-church Protestant, keeping the old traditions in the sphere of a conservative evangelical context. I've been blessed by reading literature written by Lutheran pastors and layfolk who emphasize a personal experience of repentance, confession of sin and forgiveness and the work of the Holy Spirit in believers and the congregation, being manfiested at least in some of the European Lutheran churches as various revival movements.

[ConcordiaTriglotta]

I went to a Southern Baptist church as a child. In Jr. High, my family switched to United Methodist. After high school, I went several years with no church. I started attending an LCMS church when I met my wife. I later joined that church and have been Lutheran for almost 3 years now.

[DaSeminarian]

Baptigelical.


LOL I don't think I have heard that one before. I heard of BaptiCostal before but never Baptigelical. We have a new denom here folks.

[Lupinus]

gah rev now Ima have that song stuck in my head all night. I will probably dream that song.

I dislike that song for some odd reason lol.

1+ on ex-RC's making great Lutherans lol

[DaRev]

gah rev now Ima have that song stuck in my head all night. I will probably dream that song.

I dislike that song for some odd reason lol.


How could anyone dislike Amazing Grace? The theologically correct version, anyway?

[LilLamb219]

I like seeing all the postings in here. We have a lot of Lutherans here who don't post much and I wish they would :)

[LilLamb219]

I have been Lutheran since I was about 4 when we moved back to Indiana after living in Missouri and my mom had me baptized. The church was an Indiana Kentucky Synod (that eventually merged to ELCA) but now I attend a LCMS church.

I tried to stray, and tried really hard, but God wouldn't have any of that ;)

[Luther073082]

How could anyone dislike Amazing Grace? The theologically correct version, anyway?

Ok I have to ask, which verses of Amazing grace do you disapprove of and why. . .

I like seeing all the postings in here. We have a lot of Lutherans here who don't post much and I wish they would :)

You scare them. . .

[DaRev]

Ok I have to ask, which verses of Amazing grace do you disapprove of and why.

The second verse:


’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev’d;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ’d!


It confuses Law and Gospel.

There are two problems with this verse. First, the line "T'was grace that taught my heart to fear." Grace does not teach us to fear, the Law teaches us to fear. God's grace calms and relieves our fears. Second is "How precious did that grace appear, The hour I first believ’d!" It suggests that our belief is what causes grace to "appear" when in fact it is just the opposite. It is grace that causes us to believe. It smacks of decision theology.

This verse does not appear in any LCMS hymnal.

The original 6th verse also does not appear, although I don't know why:

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call’d me here below,
Will be forever mine.


But the new LSB does include the Harriet Beecher Stowe verse at the end:
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’ve first begun.

[porterross]

You scare them. . .


IF that's true, which I call bollox on, :doh: it's only because ignorance breeds fear.

[Luther073082]

This verse does not appear in any LCMS hymnal.

The original 6th verse also does not appear, although I don't know why:


But the new LSB does include the Harriet Beecher Stowe verse at the end:

I've never even seen the 6th verse you are talking about.

[DaRev]

I've never even seen the 6th verse you are talking about.

I didn't either until relatively recently.

[IowaLutheran]

I've never even seen the 6th verse you are talking about.

I didn't either until I started leading prayer services at the local homeless mission and the old reformed church hymnals they had included this verse.

[DoomRyderOCST]

I am not completely a Lutheran (so I hope it is okay to post in this thread) but slowly I am becoming more and more Lutheran in my thinking. For the last 15 years or so I was a Reformed Baptist. If God blesses me by making me a true complete Lutheran ;) , I would either join a conservative LCMS or WELS/ELS church.

Please pray for me and wife during this theolgical transition time in our lives.

This is a cool thread, btw.

[Luther073082]

I am not completely a Lutheran (so I hope it is okay to post in this thread) but slowly I am becoming more and more Lutheran in my thinking. For the last 15 years or so I was a Reformed Baptist. If God blesses me by making me a true complete Lutheran ;) , I would either join a conservative LCMS or WELS/ELS church.

Please pray for me and wife during this theolgical transition time in our lives.

This is a cool thread, btw.

If God blesses you by making you a complete Lutheran? Ok maybe this is heresy here but I think becomming a Lutheran is more up to you and your wife then something of God blessing you.

I mean is it not more of a decision that you make then any kind of "luck"

[LilLamb219]

If God blesses you by making you a complete Lutheran? Ok maybe this is heresy here but I think becomming a Lutheran is more up to you and your wife then something of God blessing you.

I mean is it not more of a decision that you make then any kind of "luck"

Being Lutheran means that God has given faith to believe in things that are biblically true. People in other denominations are true Christians, but they have false beliefs that they cling to...and false beliefs are not from God. The Holy Spirit uses God's Word to give us the truth of what scripture states and the Lutheran Confessions are a true exposition of what scripture states. Those who believe in that truth haven't done so because of a decision, but because they have been led to believe in that truth by our triune God.

[Luther073082]

Being Lutheran means that God has given faith to believe in things that are biblically true. People in other denominations are true Christians, but they have false beliefs that they cling to...and false beliefs are not from God. The Holy Spirit uses God's Word to give us the truth of what scripture states and the Lutheran Confessions are a true exposition of what scripture states. Those who believe in that truth haven't done so because of a decision, but because they have been led to believe in that truth by our triune God.

Then why would the triune God allow them to belive in falsehood if they (people) have no role in rejecting those teachings. Its still his choice not to reject the "true" teachings is it not?

So why say if God blesses me as such, because theoretically God already has blessed him, he just has to make the choice to not reject those teachings. In otherword's the ball is in his court.

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Baptigelical.
Haha, yeah, me too.

Nondenominational, megachurch, Arminian, dispensationalist, Pietist, Credobaptist. The horror.

[DaRev]

Haha, yeah, me too.

Nondenominational, megachurch, Arminian, dispensationalist, Pietist, Credobaptist. The horror.

You poor boy!! :eek: It's a miracle that you survived!!

[DaRev]

Then why would the triune God allow them to belive in falsehood if they (people) have no role in rejecting those teachings. Its still his choice not to reject the "true" teachings is it not?

So why say if God blesses me as such, because theoretically God already has blessed him, he just has to make the choice to not reject those teachings. In otherword's the ball is in his court.

The Holy Spirit does not lead one to falsehood. People do that on their own.

[Melethiel]

Haha, yeah, me too.

Nondenominational, megachurch, Arminian, dispensationalist, Pietist, Credobaptist. The horror.
Yeah, those too.

[Luther073082]

The Holy Spirit does not lead one to falsehood. People do that on their own.

Which is my point that theoretically assuming that all Lutheran doctrines are correct that God has already blessed them to lead them to the truth. God has already willed that part of it.

If God blesses me by making me a true complete Lutheran ;) , I would either join a conservative LCMS or WELS/ELS church.

It was based off of the above quote and I am arguing that the "if" is not correct because you can't be rejected as a Lutheran if you accept all their teachings. And assuming that all Lutheran doctrines are true, God has already blessed them to become a Lutheran, and only they can choose not to be.


Oh Lord, I feel like I'm trading places with Rev and nitpicking on things like this. . . :doh:

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

You poor boy!! :eek: It's a miracle that you survived!!
Haha, I know, right? Phew, thank God.

[Tofferer]

I used to attend a Baptist church. However, I started to look "too deeply" into the "rapture" and began to reject it. Things came to head when I was told that if I didn't accept the rapture, I wasn't a Christian. It was a Lutheran Pastor who was willing to discuss this with me and show me how full of errors the doctrine was.

[RadMan]

I used to attend a Baptist church. However, I started to look "too deeply" into the "rapture" and began to reject it. Things came to head when I was told that if I didn't accept the rapture, I wasn't a Christian. It was a Lutheran Pastor who was willing to discuss this with me and show me how full of errors the doctrine was.We don't add anything to the scriptures or take anything away hence Sola Scriptura.

[Tofferer]

That is exactly my point. It became apparent to me that something was being read into scripture that wasn't there. My wife and I have now been in the Lutheran Church for five years (unless you want to count my baptism at Trinity Lutheran in Parkland back in 1981). We left the ELCA and became members of LCMC, which now means driving about twenty minutes north every sunday for church, but it is well worth when you have a pastor who will only preach what is written in scripture.

[dinkime]

i was baptised at a lutheran church, never really attended church except a few times when i was little (and sunday school with a neighbor) at a UCC church, in 7th grade my mom & i started at a WELS church and i am totally happy!

[JimfromOhio]

I was a member of Baptist and AnaBaptist denominations in the past. Currently, I am a member of Presbyterian Church (PCA).

I was in a Catholic School system for 7 years. I have attended many denominational churches over the years (i.e. Methodists).

Now I am looking for a good local Lutheran Churches. I found several. Will be visiting one tomorrow. :)