An Early Church Scholar's Return to Catholicism (w/ Dr. Thomas Scheck)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by one of my heroes, Early Church scholar Dr. Thomas Scheck to unpack his amazing story of growing up Catholic, leaving the faith for Evangelical Christian, and then coming storming back to the Church after 17 years away. It's a great journey!
Listen as Dr. Scheck explains why an encounter with two Baptist roommates in college fired him up for a relationship with Christ, his time as an Evangelical missionary with his wife in Germany, and his struggles and successes as an Evangelical pastor for almost ten years.
And, of course, what ultimately led Dr. Scheck, his wife, and many of his children back to the Catholic Church.
I'm so grateful for a chance to have this conversation and Dr. Scheck is a wonderful storyteller.
For more from Dr. Scheck visit his page at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Studies.
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Proof we must continually Pray for Conversion and engage non Catholics to our faith
What a beautiful soul of a man. Thank you so much for this interview.
Thanks for watching.
I grew up Catholic. We are the only true, original Christians. Catholicism is my identity. As a young kid, maybe 10 or 11 I found myself alone in an empty Church one day, Christ the King Parish and I felt the presence of Jesus. He was actually there with me. It was a profound experience, a palpable, real encounter with our Lord. Of course as I got older the world took the place of Jesus, I lost my faith and became a protestant. I quickly realized that protestantism was false because it wasn’t Catholic, became disillusioned and stopped going to church entirely. But Jesus was always there, hanging around in the back of my mind. After 33 years as a none practicing Catholic the Holy Spirit brought me home to the Catholic faith of my youth. As a strong Christian Catholic Jesus has proven to me that he has only one body on earth, the Catholic Church.
Great! How's the "works" coming along?
@@user-rg5vt9wi8q Imagine that another protestant trolling a Catholic channel who doesn’t know what he’s saying. I wish you a very happy Easter.
@@Spiritof76Catholic "Imagine that another Catholic trolling a protestant who doesn't know what he's saying."
I'm an ex-Catholic having received 5/7 Sacraments. So, yeah, I know what I'm saying. Can you say the same about being a protestant? Ditto.
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@@user-rg5vt9wi8q Great I was a protestant and investigated most denominations and found the contradictions untenable. I then investigated the early Church fathers and quickly saw they were many things but not protestant. I am now a very happy Catholic.
I can also ask how is the "mental assent" going. Of course I do not mean it because it would misrepresent many sincere protestants in the same way you misrepresent Catholicism.
I’m so gladder than glad to hear Catholics who were brought up in the Catholic Church but had either no faith and no up bringing in the Catholic Church teachings because it’s a problem with the family meaning the person father or mother that didn’t help their children learn about the Catholic Church teachings and faith which is an enormous problem with families in the Catholic Church.But it’s a glorious mystery how The Holy Trinity can help some fallen away Catholics to understand and return back to the Catholic Church,Thanks be to God for that infinitely and Eternally Amen 🙏
I was born in the 1960s. I had my first Holy Communion in 1971 at St Monica’s Church in Santa Monica California. I remember the confusion over Vatican 2. Even as a child I sensed the tension in the church. I accept Vatican 2 but i disagree with the way it was implemented. Many people in my generation left the church. I did too. I left when I was 27 for a year. My family challenged me to do my research. To give the Catholic Church a chance. So I did. Scott Hawn’s conversion story is what brought me back.
A man of God praising his saintly parents .
For anyone considering entering into the Catholic church, I recommend reading works of the early church fathers and the thousands of Catholic saints. Also, research Marian apparitions, Eucharistic miracles, and try to attend the traditional Latin masses of the Catholic church as the latter are the masses of the ages, masses attended by nearly all of the saints for nearly two millennium.
Great interview. So sorry about the loss of his son. The other, who has fallen away, prayers for his return. This man shows great humility
So. Nice to hear talks like this versus protestants spreading lies about catholics.
Before I watched it I already given it a thumbs up. Always great never boring.
That’s great to hear! Thank you!
What a joy to discover sheep come HOME. Being Catholic is not a religion but the CHURCH.
Welcome home brother (Dr. Thomas Sheck) to the one and true church founded and established by Jesus Christ Himself through His apostles. The Catholic Church had survived many man made challenges for over two thousand plus years. She will remain until the end of times; to say until the second coming of Jesus Christ.
I love Dr. Scheck's translations for the Fathers of the Church (FOTC) series. His translation of St. Jerome's Commentary on Matthew was one of the first from that series I ever bought, and it got me hooked. Drs. Thomas Scheck, Andrew Cain, Irven Resnick, Robert Hill, and so many others have done, and are continuing to do, an immense service to the English-speaking Church.
This guy is the epitome of humility. I can certainly sympathize with having great ambitions but having to settle for very local impact. God has a plan, and we have to trust it and whatever role he has for us in it. Though we shouldn't flatter ourselves, it is possible we have more impact than we perceive.
Agreed, Tony! Dr. Scheck’s work is of the utmost importance to Early Church scholarship and he is just so humble about it, too.
@@TheCordialCatholic after the REAL NT Church began at Pentecost....NO Queen of Heaven.....NO Jesus sacrificed on an Altar in an unbloody manner....NO Worship of the Eucharist.....NO Holy Water.........NO Monstrance.......NO Indulgences.....NO Scapulars.......NO Nuns....NO Pope......NO Altar Boys......NO Immaculate Heart of Mary....NO Co Redeemer.....NO Meciatrix.....NO Immaculate Conception.....NO Priests absolving sin, then imposing penance for the confessed sins of the penitent........
@@Mdsoyabaktar25 Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus died for your sins. Jesus raised from the dead
It’s sad that Catholics don’t know their faith. Poor Catechisis after Vatican 2 is to blame. We need to bring back The Baltimore Catechism.
Yes the Baltimore catechises.
I agree
We use it !
I basically had a mini revert to the church hearing my convert Baptist wife read and teach it to our kids!
" Who made you"? " God made me"
One of the prime examples of it's simplicity.
Keep the great interviews coming, Keith!
They are! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your story. Love the way God has been present in your life and also the thoughts of not always understanding the will of God within our lives.
Amen!
The school in Florida that employed him as a Latin teacher.. man, I have to wonder if they and the kids truly know that there such a scholar they’ve been Blessed to have… it’s almost like a school hiring Michelangelo to teach art class. Hahahaahaha
Indeed!
Oh, we do know and consider ourselves greatly blessed to have him as a teacher. It's our scholars who really have no idea right now. But one day, we pray they will.
So much to say but will simply say love the channel and the material presented!
Great interview and awesome conversion story.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it!
Great 👍🙏
I got the same e-book from amazon :D
Thanks for the 'Scheck and jive.'
"I will be quiet, get out of the way"... fast forward to @5:19
If the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Catholic faith, why isn't it mentioned in the Nicaean Creed?
That wasn't the issue for the council.
Bothe the Church and the Arians agreed on that
It was the nature of Christ and the Trinity .
I believe
Can someone please give a precise definition of “having a personal relationship with Jesus” means? What does this entail?
And then could you explain why consuming Jesus Christ, body,blood, soul and divinity in the Eucharist is somehow not considered having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
It means what the catholic Church has always taught in the catechisim "to know, love and serve God". To have a relationship with God means you have to know who the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are as persons. The best way to grow in that is to read the Bible from cover to cover, with the correct catholic interpretation, as you get a good understanding of the personality of God. Praying the Rosary every day is also going to help you with insights.
In the Eucharist you receive Jesus, and to benefit from it you got to know both Jesus and the sacrament.
Remember that Luther was an Augustinian monk and therefore heavily influenced by Augustinian theology and, I dare say, pessimism.
Pessimism, indeed!
46:47 This argument to me seems to be born oht of ignorance. Anyone who has met devout Catholics couldn't say that don't have a "personal relationship with Jesus."
The announcer is too long, winded. I wanted to hear the guest instead of the endless babbling. I would love to hear more from the guest about the great schism, and how the Roman Catholic Church rebelled against the other bishops, and as a result, the Roman catholic church was plagued with rebellious reformation issues.
I have a hard time taking this comment seriously. I introduced the guest and then didn’t say a word for another hour while the guest talked uninterrupted. 😇
@@TheCordialCatholic you must’ve been on drugs or you didn’t listen to your own video you blathered and blathered make it short and sweet let that person talk maybe you have a demon
30 mins into the vid and we're still enduring generic details about school and marriage...
I'm try another video.
So he doesn't evangelize now?
Oh no, I think you can see it’s quite the opposite from this video. 😎
Protestant response. I have heard former Roman Catholics say the same thing about why they left Roman Catholicism. They did not recognize Roman Catholicism in their study of the early church. I think they have a strong case for coming to that conclusion. I appreciate anyone who studies the Church Fathers. There are scores of Protestant scholars who are experts on the church fathers and the early church who did not come to the same conclusion as this gentleman. Several of the Protestant Reformers were patristic scholars.
Welcome back, Paul!
@@TheCordialCatholicSarcasm doesn’t suit you my friend. You are too nice a person for that to work.
@@TheCordialCatholic I love the work of N.T. Wright, one of the worlds best New Testament and Early Church scholars....still Anglican for a solid biblical and Apostolic reason.
They were Catholic throughout.
Drinking of their wisdom then denying the reality that comes with it is delusional.
Wright is nothing more than nothing, he try hard but nothing because he knew what cannot reach,,, which is the truth...
Dr. Tom i hope you're not a zionist ?
Definitely not. Don't approve of genocide.
again, with changing teams and each christian ever so sure that they have the only right version. curious how not a single one of them can do what their jesus promises in their bible.
Cordial catholic, please talk more calmly. You don't have to talk like You are trying to sell some candies.
Do you want to buy some candies? 🤓
Paul writes about these Catholic converts.
Apostasy
1But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 2by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, 3men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. 4For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; 5for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.
But Jesus say in Mathew 10:22 -"and you will be hated by all for My Name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved".
John 5:39-40 - Our Jesus Christ say "you search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to Me; yet you refuse to come to Me that you may have life".
John 5:44 - Jesus say "how can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from only God?".
@@marymargarette4289 "and you will be hated by all for My Name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved".
Yeah. Remember that little ordeal re-established in 1542 called The Inquisition?
@@user-rg5vt9wi8qYes, as Catholics we must always watch and pray so that we will not leads into temptation. And we must say as Peter answered to Jesus "Lord where shall we go for You have the word of eternal life".
@@marymargarette4289 I think they made a movie after you...."Clueless"
@@user-rg5vt9wi8qLuke 9:25 - Jesus say "for what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?".
You are just what Jesus spoke about!
Matthew 13:13-15 KJV Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15. For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them...
Subscribe to the serpents chanel! I think not! You will have enough company as it is! I would rather spend eternity praising my heavenly Father that payed the price I could not do I can fulfill his will for me
Too late be quiet already.