Why Is The Pope So Popular With Some Evangelicals?

[Apotheoun]

Fascinating, I guess?

Yeah, it is actually, because the whole modern notion that parts of the faith, i.e., those what we arbitrarily assign a small "t" to, are dispensable is not Patristic, and would have been rejected in the ancient Church has heretical. 

Edited June 17, 2013 by Apotheoun

[Lil Red]

Don't be. It's a good article. ;)

 

As a former Evangelical and a convert who was not looking to convert at all, I can tell you that "liking" the pope *is* important for evangelicals. Maybe "respecting" is a better word. HSdad and I respected JPII well before we were even interested at all in converting.

 

Now granted, I never heard of anyone converting solely because they liked the pope. :crazy: But as the "face" of Catholicism (and for some people he may be the first practicing Catholic some evangelicals encounter! Even those who are former Catholics!) he can do a lot to attract or deter someone to or from the Church. In that way, the pope is like each of us. Hopefully we are all good Christian examples to our Evangelical brothers and sisters. We should all want our Christian witness to be attractive to others. No, no one will be converted solely because of us, or our pope, but they should be able to see Christ in us enough to look further.

 

Great post. :)