Cradle Catholic here, didn't really know the how's and the why's of the church, but was baptized, received first Holy Communion and confirmed; thanks to my parents. But I didn't really know Jesus, the Bible etc. I knew to pray to God if I wanted something! I knew that I had to go to confession and Mass. In my early 30's I visited evangelical churches because I thought that it was dead in the Catholic church and I became interested in Jesus and started reading the Bible. I was ready to make the decision to leave the church ......BUT somehow didnt .....couldn't: and I didn't know why I couldn't. So I stayed. Only later I realised that it was God's will for me stay in the church. It was the Holy Spirit who kept me in the church. Now I read my Bible regularly, I pray more and I have a relationship with my Saviour. I found him in the Catholic church! Thank you Jesus! I LOVE my church, the one true church.
@@Marksaunderscatholicevangelist test this with the word of God. Bible says we must test all things. N the bible does not say tht U can see heaven just by becoming Cath.
Welcome home! 🏠 My husband and I recently reverted to the Catholic Church - I was away for 32 years and practiced evangelical Christianity for 10 years and my husband is a convert we entered the Church together this Pentecost and we love being Catholic. 🙏🙏
@@Marksaunderscatholicevangelist shouting hallelujah even a thousand times will not open heaven to anyone. Jesus said U MUST BE BORN AGAIN TO SEE HEAVEN, jn 3:5. Seek the holy spirit n he will reveal how
Welcome home, I see there are a lot of disparaging comments being posted. I won't dwell on them, and neither should you. May the Lord keep you and bless you all the days of your life, brother.
Thanks for sharing your story Mark! I appreciate your honesty and openness to the ups amd downs you've experienced in your life, and how the Lord has led you through. I've been personally blessed by your ministry and how God has worked through you to share the Gospel and to be a proclaimer of Jesus our saviour. I'm still not sure about the Catholic faith myself, but i respect you in putting this out there and encouraging others to have a look at it!
Dear Neil Eiregrace, Just ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to the truth. Stay open and honest to what the Holy Spirit reveals to you, no matter where it may lead you.
It was Ignatius who wrote to the church re having nothing to do with those who deny the Eucharist is the body and blood of Jesus Christ not Polycarp as I stated.
Mark, God bless you for the courage to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. May our Lord Jesus Christ fill you with his love as you journey ever more deeply in his grace in his holy Church.
Very interesting listen, i actually thought catholics didnt believe in salvation only through Jesus, i wonder about things like purgatory? Or praying for the dead? Or do they believe you need to be born again to enter heaven..im born again after a radical encounter with Jesus.....i have sooooo many questions, God bless you on your journey🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏☺️
@@TheYhall1978 great questions and all questions I had too. I recommend looking into all this in the Catechism. There is also great resources at organisations like Catholic Answers which you can look up on both TH-cam and internet. The coming home network is another where Catholics share their stories of coming home and all the questions they had very like yours. I recommend 2 books to at helped me - Rome sweet home by Scott Hahn and Crossing the Tiber by Steve Ray. You can email me also.
Welcome home brother! I entered the church November 2019 aged 62 after a lifetime in the evangelical world. Grateful for all I learned as an evangelical but glad to be home at last after years of my faith being built on the shifting sands of men’s opinions now it is built on the rock! Praise God.
Hi Mark, I am surprised by this, I will be interested to hear if any of your theological beliefs have changed since you have converted to Catholicism. Also wonder what your thoughts are on the Reformation etc. I do agree that evangelicals need to have communion more. Hope you’re ok mate.
protestants don't have the Eucharist - they can celebrate the 'communion' rite as many times they want, they won't be receiving the Body Blood Sould and divinity of Jesus Christ - and that means that they have not life in them, as Jesus taught
I am a recent revert as well after having been an Evangelical Christian for 10 years. I believe it’s the Holy Spirit and God himself that leads a soul back to the church God himself left us which is the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I never thought I would leave evangelicalism and return to the Catholic Church but God himself brought me home. The Bible was put together by the Counsels of the Catholic Church with the Holy Spirit leading the Pope and the Magisterium. God did not let his church go off the rails for 1300 years until the Reformers got it right. Changes needed to happen but an abandonment of Gods one true church did not need to happen and it’s been separation with the body weakened by the reformation it’s a great tragedy. I pray all Christians to become Catholic and to feast on Christs body and blood in the Eucharist. That’s the backbone of our faith. God be with you ❤
Brother. Thank you for your testimony. For me it’s coming to an understanding of the Sacraments that has been so transformative. For me the combination of Word, Spirit and Sacrament is so powerful. I was confirmed into the Anglican Church in 2021 after 16 years away from the faith. Prior to 2004 I served in Pentecostal, Charismatic and Non-charismatic circles.
Been waiting for this. In the meanwhile I have been devouring early church, church fathers also some eucarist information. It is becoming clear to me I have belief about Catholicism that is incorrect. I am beginning to feel a longing to take part in the eucarist and attend a mass. Never been catholic would appreciate more teaching so please do if you can. Lovely testimony , what a journey. God bless you Mark. 🙏🙏
@@happysoul5112 hey I’m hoping to share more videos in the future but in the meantime there is loads of great content and teaching on the Coming home network TH-cam channel. I’d also love to speak with you more and if I can help great. My email is ev.mark@yahoo.com.
Mark, I know that you have been persecuted for this decision of yours. You are in very good company - many Christians over the centuries have also been persecuted. In persecution, all you will do is get stronger in your faith. My prayer for you is that you will be an agent for good, truth and understanding within the Roman Catholic Church. With many blessings, your mate, Mark.
Is that the Catholic Cathedral in Glasgow at the start? I took a bus down and visited it (and the other Cathedrals in Glasgow) back in Febuary, very nice.
I’m an Irish Merseysider, with the same upbringing .ive returned to back to Jesus . I’ve been disallusioned by the Catholic Church , but I realise it’s more about individuals , groups who have hijacked it and his there evil behind the catholic cloak . Can you do some you tubes about the theology and meaning behind the sacraments and mass . Particularly the Eucharist . God bless you . Thank you for sharing this with us 🌟🙏
I was blessed listening to this Mark. Totally agree with what you have to say about the Desert Fathers. This has been resonating with me too. We are all called to different people groups by our Lord. Continue to fulfil your calling Mark
@@tony1685yes I do in that verse as in every verse in the bible. Do you believe 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 or will you choose to believe whatever you choose to believe and therefore go against John 14:15
@@liviucozma9019 false information. I left Egypt in baptism and returned during my lost years. Leaving the Protestant church to Catholic Church is not going backwards it’s entering into the fullness of the truth.
Roman Catholicism is a Medieval religion that focuses on sin and the avoidance of sin. Was this Jesus' focus? Absolutely not! When He preached, He spoke to the people and even fed them. He didn't teach scripture. With Jesus it is all about the person. With Roman Catholicism it is all about obedience, sitting in a pew, watching ceremony, focusing on catechism and scripture. Roman Catholic priests are all about vestments, religious artifacts, catechisms and scriptures, and getting their followers in a pew every Sunday. I give Catholicism ten years. Young people refuse to darken the door of a church once they leave the family nest!!!
I’m concerned about you. I think you may be focusing more on feelings rather than truth. God’s word is truth. I don’t understand how you can be part of the Catholic Church whose leader the pope says that all religions lead to God/heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth & the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”. This is at odds with what the Pope is now teaching. Search the Scriptures, for in them you find eternal life.
@@annekitchen4577 no need to be I know Gods voice. Please don’t use the popes latest misunderstanding against the Catholic Church. I can assure no pope can ever be pope and not believe the only way to God is thru Jesus Christ. There are many errors in Protestantism too and many false leaders who have also spread many heresy’s. The pope is a human being who makes mistakes in what he is trying to say sometimes. He’s not perfect and he I’ll answer like me and you will for his errors. But it does not disqualify the Catholic Church as truth. Hope you and family are well. Yours in Christ
I understand that the pope is a human being who makes mistakes, but he is also the global head of the RC church. As such he should be very careful about what he says publicly, as should anyone with a public profile. Of course there are errors elsewhere. But that does not alter the Biblical truth that Jesus is the only way to God, the only truth, the only source of spiritual life. The pope saying that we use religions like language is wrong. We are warned about being deceived. We are told to watch. Please examine the word of God. If your foundations are not solid on the word, you are on shaky ground.
I am a recent revert as well after having been an Evangelical Christian for 10 years. I believe it’s the Holy Spirit and God himself that leads a soul back to the church God himself left us which is the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I never thought I would leave evangelicalism and return to the Catholic Church but God himself brought me home. The Bible was put together by the Counsels of the Catholic Church with the Holy Spirit leading the Pope and the Magisterium. God did not let his church go off the rails for 1300 years until the Reformers got it right. Changes needed to happen but an abandonment of Gods one true church did not need to happen and it’s been separation with the body weakened by the reformation it’s a great tragedy. I pray all Christians to become Catholic and to feast on Christs body and blood in the Eucharist. That’s the backbone of our faith. God be with you ❤
It is obvious that people like you who want a ceremonial religion are looking at ceremony, vestments, candles, incense, etc. as the most important part of the faith experience. Where does charity, love, outreach - all Jesus things - fit into your Catholic experience??? God is our Father and loves us like a father! We don't earn that love! It is automatic! Ceremonies, etc. are part of the artistic, cultural aspect of the Catholic faith. Is ceremony what Jesus taught when He was on Earth??? Young people refuse to enter a church once they move out of the family nest! They recognize that everything is about charity, love, and outreach and not about ceremony!
@@leoinsf a lot of ignorance and prejudice in that statement. Instead of telling me what I believe and what I search for try asking me. As for young people they leave all denominations not just Catholic.
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Cradle Catholic here, didn't really know the how's and the why's of the church, but was baptized, received first Holy Communion and confirmed; thanks to my parents. But I didn't really know Jesus, the Bible etc. I knew to pray to God if I wanted something! I knew that I had to go to confession and Mass. In my early 30's I visited evangelical churches because I thought that it was dead in the Catholic church and I became interested in Jesus and started reading the Bible. I was ready to make the decision to leave the church ......BUT somehow didnt .....couldn't: and I didn't know why I couldn't. So I stayed. Only later I realised that it was God's will for me stay in the church. It was the Holy Spirit who kept me in the church. Now I read my Bible regularly, I pray more and I have a relationship with my Saviour. I found him in the Catholic church! Thank you Jesus! I LOVE my church, the one true church.
@@pishapp amen amen and amen
Convert here - former Evangelical protestant. Best decision ever to become Catholic. Entered at easter vigil.
@@valwhelan3533 wonderful welcome home
@@Marksaunderscatholicevangelist test this with the word of God. Bible says we must test all things. N the bible does not say tht U can see heaven just by becoming Cath.
Welcome home! 🏠 My husband and I recently reverted to the Catholic Church - I was away for 32 years and practiced evangelical Christianity for 10 years and my husband is a convert we entered the Church together this Pentecost and we love being Catholic. 🙏🙏
@@carakerr4081 hallelujah
@@Marksaunderscatholicevangelist shouting hallelujah even a thousand times will not open heaven to anyone. Jesus said U MUST BE BORN AGAIN TO SEE HEAVEN, jn 3:5. Seek the holy spirit n he will reveal how
Welcome home, I see there are a lot of disparaging comments being posted. I won't dwell on them, and neither should you. May the Lord keep you and bless you all the days of your life, brother.
@@Byron.D thank you and amen
I absolutely loved that movie of Jesus of Nazareth! It greatly influenced my Christian life. Beautiful testimony! Thank you for sharing! 🙏🏼❤️
Welcome home, brother--fraternal greetings from Maryland, USA.
@@njalgunnar78 hey good to meet you
Welcome Home, Mark! May our Lord Jesus use your story and your heart to be an answer to the prayer of Jesus - UT UNUM SINT!
Thank you Kenny and thank you for your support!
It was St. Ignatius of Antioch who wrote the letters to the churches and asked them not to rescue him bcs he was on his way to Rome for execution.
Thanks for sharing your story Mark! I appreciate your honesty and openness to the ups amd downs you've experienced in your life, and how the Lord has led you through. I've been personally blessed by your ministry and how God has worked through you to share the Gospel and to be a proclaimer of Jesus our saviour. I'm still not sure about the Catholic faith myself, but i respect you in putting this out there and encouraging others to have a look at it!
@@neil_eiregrace thank you
Dear Neil Eiregrace, Just ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to the truth. Stay open and honest to what the Holy Spirit reveals to you, no matter where it may lead you.
It was Ignatius who wrote to the church re having nothing to do with those who deny the Eucharist is the body and blood of Jesus Christ not Polycarp as I stated.
Amen 🙏
Mark, God bless you for the courage to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. May our Lord Jesus Christ fill you with his love as you journey ever more deeply in his grace in his holy Church.
Very interesting listen, i actually thought catholics didnt believe in salvation only through Jesus, i wonder about things like purgatory? Or praying for the dead? Or do they believe you need to be born again to enter heaven..im born again after a radical encounter with Jesus.....i have sooooo many questions, God bless you on your journey🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏☺️
@@TheYhall1978 great questions and all questions I had too. I recommend looking into all this in the Catechism. There is also great resources at organisations like Catholic Answers which you can look up on both TH-cam and internet. The coming home network is another where Catholics share their stories of coming home and all the questions they had very like yours. I recommend 2 books to at helped me - Rome sweet home by Scott Hahn and Crossing the Tiber by Steve Ray. You can email me also.
Welcome home brother! I entered the church November 2019 aged 62 after a lifetime in the evangelical world. Grateful for all I learned as an evangelical but glad to be home at last after years of my faith being built on the shifting sands of men’s opinions now it is built on the rock! Praise God.
Hi Mark,
I am surprised by this, I will be interested to hear if any of your theological beliefs have changed since you have converted to Catholicism.
Also wonder what your thoughts are on the Reformation etc.
I do agree that evangelicals need to have communion more.
Hope you’re ok mate.
protestants don't have the Eucharist - they can celebrate the 'communion' rite as many times they want, they won't be receiving the Body Blood Sould and divinity of Jesus Christ - and that means that they have not life in them, as Jesus taught
I am a recent revert as well after having been an Evangelical Christian for 10 years. I believe it’s the Holy Spirit and God himself that leads a soul back to the church God himself left us which is the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I never thought I would leave evangelicalism and return to the Catholic Church but God himself brought me home. The Bible was put together by the Counsels of the Catholic Church with the Holy Spirit leading the Pope and the Magisterium. God did not let his church go off the rails for 1300 years until the Reformers got it right. Changes needed to happen but an abandonment of Gods one true church did not need to happen and it’s been separation with the body weakened by the reformation it’s a great tragedy. I pray all Christians to become Catholic and to feast on Christs body and blood in the Eucharist. That’s the backbone of our faith. God be with you ❤
Brother. Thank you for your testimony. For me it’s coming to an understanding of the Sacraments that has been so transformative. For me the combination of Word, Spirit and Sacrament is so powerful. I was confirmed into the Anglican Church in 2021 after 16 years away from the faith. Prior to 2004 I served in Pentecostal, Charismatic and Non-charismatic circles.
Wow. You came and preached in Aylesbury. This is definitely interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Been waiting for this. In the meanwhile I have been devouring early church, church fathers also some eucarist information. It is becoming clear to me I have belief about Catholicism that is incorrect. I am beginning to feel a longing to take part in the eucarist and attend a mass. Never been catholic would appreciate more teaching so please do if you can. Lovely testimony , what a journey. God bless you Mark. 🙏🙏
@@happysoul5112 hey I’m hoping to share more videos in the future but in the meantime there is loads of great content and teaching on the Coming home network TH-cam channel. I’d also love to speak with you more and if I can help great. My email is ev.mark@yahoo.com.
@@happysoul5112 I also highly recommend Kenny Burchard you tube channel too. The channel is in his name.
@@Marksaunderscatholicevangelist it's Deborah
Dear friend, there no salvation in the Roman Catholic Church. Please search the scriptures, not the church fathers🙏
Dear friend, there is no salvation in the Roman Catholic Church. Please search the scriptures and not the church fathers
Would you host me on? Fellow revert
@@TheZealotsDen we could certainly talk about that bro
Mark, I know that you have been persecuted for this decision of yours. You are in very good company - many Christians over the centuries have also been persecuted. In persecution, all you will do is get stronger in your faith. My prayer for you is that you will be an agent for good, truth and understanding within the Roman Catholic Church. With many blessings, your mate, Mark.
Is that the Catholic Cathedral in Glasgow at the start? I took a bus down and visited it (and the other Cathedrals in Glasgow) back in Febuary, very nice.
@@MatthewN07 yeh it is 😊👍
I’m an Irish Merseysider, with the same upbringing .ive returned to back to Jesus . I’ve been disallusioned by the Catholic Church , but I realise it’s more about individuals , groups who have hijacked it and his there evil behind the catholic cloak .
Can you do some you tubes about the theology and meaning behind the sacraments and mass . Particularly the Eucharist .
God bless you . Thank you for sharing this with us 🌟🙏
@@FionaBriercliffe yeh I will and
Thank you for the message
Brent Pitre has an excellent Book the Jewish roots of the eucharist. Scott Hahn (pastor who converted) has an excellent Book 4th cup
Look up peter kreeft
Hes greatest teacher I've ever had
Socratic logic
Handbook Christian apologetics
Prayer, the great conversation
@@DavidRodriguez-cm2qg He's good. Also like Herschmeyer from Shameless Popery channel, Tent Horn (counsel of Trent) and Robert Haddad.
I was blessed listening to this Mark. Totally agree with what you have to say about the Desert Fathers. This has been resonating with me too. We are all called to different people groups by our Lord. Continue to fulfil your calling Mark
@@keithransome thanks Keith hope you are well bro
@@tony1685yes I do in that verse as in every verse in the bible. Do you believe 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 or will you choose to believe whatever you choose to believe and therefore go against John 14:15
It's good to be home, isn't it 📿🙏
From idols (st Anthony,st Mary,Fatima,) to Jesus and back! Like Israelits in desert want back in Egipt!
@@liviucozma9019 false information. I left Egypt in baptism and returned during my lost years. Leaving the Protestant church to Catholic Church is not going backwards it’s entering into the fullness of the truth.
Thank you for a deeply touching witness.
Thank you
Roman Catholicism is a Medieval religion that focuses on sin and the avoidance of sin.
Was this Jesus' focus? Absolutely not!
When He preached, He spoke to the people and even fed them. He didn't teach scripture.
With Jesus it is all about the person.
With Roman Catholicism it is all about obedience, sitting in a pew, watching ceremony, focusing on catechism and scripture.
Roman Catholic priests are all about vestments, religious artifacts, catechisms and scriptures, and getting their followers in a pew every Sunday.
I give Catholicism ten years.
Young people refuse to darken the door of a church once they leave the family nest!!!
I’m concerned about you. I think you may be focusing more on feelings rather than truth. God’s word is truth.
I don’t understand how you can be part of the Catholic Church whose leader the pope says that all religions lead to God/heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth & the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”. This is at odds with what the Pope is now teaching.
Search the Scriptures, for in them you find eternal life.
@@annekitchen4577 no need to be I know Gods voice. Please don’t use the popes latest misunderstanding against the Catholic Church. I can assure no pope can ever be pope and not believe the only way to God is thru Jesus Christ. There are many errors in Protestantism too and many false leaders who have also spread many heresy’s. The pope is a human being who makes mistakes in what he is trying to say sometimes. He’s not perfect and he I’ll answer like me and you will for his errors. But it does not disqualify the Catholic Church as truth. Hope you and family are well. Yours in Christ
I understand that the pope is a human being who makes mistakes, but he is also the global head of the RC church. As such he should be very careful about what he says publicly, as should anyone with a public profile.
Of course there are errors elsewhere. But that does not alter the Biblical truth that Jesus is the only way to God, the only truth, the only source of spiritual life.
The pope saying that we use religions like language is wrong. We are warned about being deceived. We are told to watch. Please examine the word of God. If your foundations are not solid on the word, you are on shaky ground.
@@annekitchen4577please educate yourself outside of you indoctrination 😊
I am a recent revert as well after having been an Evangelical Christian for 10 years. I believe it’s the Holy Spirit and God himself that leads a soul back to the church God himself left us which is the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I never thought I would leave evangelicalism and return to the Catholic Church but God himself brought me home. The Bible was put together by the Counsels of the Catholic Church with the Holy Spirit leading the Pope and the Magisterium. God did not let his church go off the rails for 1300 years until the Reformers got it right. Changes needed to happen but an abandonment of Gods one true church did not need to happen and it’s been separation with the body weakened by the reformation it’s a great tragedy. I pray all Christians to become Catholic and to feast on Christs body and blood in the Eucharist. That’s the backbone of our faith. God be with you ❤
@@carakerr4081 amen!
It is obvious that people like you who want a ceremonial religion are looking at ceremony, vestments, candles, incense, etc. as the most important part of the faith experience.
Where does charity, love, outreach - all Jesus things - fit into your Catholic experience???
God is our Father and loves us like a father!
We don't earn that love! It is automatic!
Ceremonies, etc. are part of the artistic, cultural aspect of the Catholic faith.
Is ceremony what Jesus taught when He was on Earth???
Young people refuse to enter a church once they move out of the family nest!
They recognize that everything is about charity, love, and outreach and not about ceremony!
@@leoinsf a lot of ignorance and prejudice in that statement. Instead of telling me what I believe and what I search for try asking me. As for young people they leave all denominations not just Catholic.