tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401401176779946985.post7689939834417916276..comments2012-05-23T16:50:31.466-07:00Comments on Conversion: One Girl's Journey to OrthodoxyMolly Sabourinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04289593743687415065noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401401176779946985.post-69089212726042782672009-02-09T07:27:00.000-08:002009-02-09T07:27:00.000-08:00Molly, what a wonderful conversion story! Your pos...Molly, what a wonderful conversion story! <BR/>Your posting was a delight to read! Even though I was born Orthodox, for most of my young life Orthodoxy represented just a cultural experience. It was only after I had come to the United States that I found the beauty of our faith and decided to embrace it and participate in it! Your story reminded me of that process of realizing that "home" is in the Orthodox Church!<BR/><BR/>May God bless you and your family!Georgianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01557113104594386375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401401176779946985.post-27327983951058335162009-01-06T10:56:00.000-08:002009-01-06T10:56:00.000-08:00Molly,Thanks for writing out your journey. It hel...Molly,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for writing out your journey. It helped me to understand you and others who have made the switch to the Orthodox Church. I am thankful God looks at our hearts and intentions. There are so many ways to worship Him and live out our faith. I have come to appreciate the diversity within His family of believers. <BR/><BR/>I enjoyed looking over your blog. You have a beautiful family. Glad that all is well with you.<BR/><BR/>IngridAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401401176779946985.post-66679391655254223952008-12-09T05:55:00.000-08:002008-12-09T05:55:00.000-08:00HI Molly,It is interesting to hear what you have e...HI Molly,<BR/>It is interesting to hear what you have experienced. I to have gone thru many changes thru my 33 years of knowing the Lord. 2 1/2 years ago we met a family who challenged us to search the scriptures ( like the Bereans did) to see if what we had been taught in the church overall and the messianic community was exactly per scripture or even if some of it could even be found in scripture or not. We discovered in scripture, per scripture, that much of what we had learned over our lifetime was mostly a recreation in many many cases. Sadly then to find out all the years of church training had mostly been wrong...tainted with the recreation of many things thru the western gentle pagan culture and traditions. With the removal long ago of our Jewish brethern fabric in whom we first received this gospel and in whom it's Hebrew writers. So how do we know what we know and where is it found per scripture...God's inspired words? We found many interesting things that have been lost since Paul and Peter's time when they passed along verbatim the Gospel.<BR/> The 7 churchs is a place to start discovery of what God said and then Genesis 1:14 where God ordained his appointments with Men and called them HIS appointments in Lev. 23....and told Moses how to set up his calendar of sppointments with men in Exodus. Starting with the New year in the spring. Staying exactly with scripture today is a narrow road..you find many diluted things out there in the church world...can they be found per GOD?we love the church and are very sad that.. what has been taken from one generation is lost to the next. Finding our way back to what Jesus told the people to observe and imitate is a matter of searching the scriptures for ourselves and keep within it's Hebrew mindset context as it was written in. I am not talking about the Law..that is also taken out of it's hebrew meaning...but I am talking about the Jesus of the scriptures alone not a church recreation of him! <BR/><BR/>God is a revealer of all things in his time. Jeremiah 16:19 is very interesting...the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.<BR/><BR/> There are so many more things to see in the scriptures regarding these things. Love to share with you,<BR/>Rachael...chanan7@gmail.com<BR/>sharing his words and scripture reference's from Genesis to revelation..What would you like to find out?Chanan, Rachael and Hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06916865963158095767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401401176779946985.post-85660149263172654732008-11-12T12:48:00.000-08:002008-11-12T12:48:00.000-08:00It doesn't surprise me at all both how similar and...It doesn't surprise me at all both how similar and how diverse all our stories of "conversion" are.<BR/><BR/><I>How could they sincerely worship without varying the music, the sermon series, or without spontaneity in their prayers? Surely, these scripted responses were dry remnants of denominations out of touch and out of sync with modern culture. Hadn’t the Reformation freed us from a works-based belief system, and breathed life into the cold, dead, liturgical groaning of the Middle Ages?</I><BR/><BR/>I think I need to start copyrighting my stuff before you write it for me.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I'm kidding.<BR/><BR/>http://jjustj.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html<BR/><BR/>I remain, as always, in fanboy awe of your writing and your public witness (or maybe it's just the way that the podcast gets set up with that echoey, ethereal voice of yours). Mutual friends of ours who know you in person, on the other hand, remain convinced that I'm completely loopy. :)Jeffrey Holtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15596636987840921745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401401176779946985.post-126718887322323822008-05-12T18:37:00.000-07:002008-05-12T18:37:00.000-07:00I loved reading your journey to Orthodoxy. Do you...I loved reading your journey to Orthodoxy. Do you know that so much of what you experienced many of us felt too? Same feelings and apprehensions. Thank you for reminding me of my journey too. <BR/>Love,<BR/>MicheleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401401176779946985.post-73688922803017519832008-04-20T17:56:00.000-07:002008-04-20T17:56:00.000-07:00Dearest Molly,Thanks for the reminder of why we ca...Dearest Molly,<BR/>Thanks for the reminder of why we came to the One, Holy & Catholic Apostolic Church!<BR/>12 years ago last week, we walked down the center isle of St. George in Niagara Falls, NY. I was wearing a white sport jacket and blue & white polka dot skirt. Funny, that I can vividly remember what I was wearing, even what I was thinking: "I'm not too sure about all these things, but I trust my husband", but cannot remember what I had done this morning! <BR/>I "road on Deacon's coat-tails" and thank God, everday, for his patience, knowledge, and love. For us, the True Church and our marriage are two reasons why we are Orthodox and why I can be saved in this life. Please understand that I realize that it is truly by God's own grace why any of us were, are or will be saved...but Oh, to live this life with your soul mate!<BR/>It's uncanny the parallels of our lives...miles away...conversions years apart. The words of St. Paul rings clearer, with more meaning that "We are members of one another..."<BR/>May God grant many years to you, Troy, Elijah, Priscilla, Benjamin, and Mary!<BR/>P.S. BTW, My husband has a blog site Bonovox.squarespace.com archive "Family" for some stories about us, should that interest you :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com