How this Protestant Pastor Became a Catholic Apologist
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2023
- In this week's (shortened) episode of Catholic ReCon, I revisit one of my favorite testimonies. Ken Hensley's story has helped so many. I pray you will open your heart as you listen.
The full episode is here: • Why a Baptist Pastor J...
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Wherever you are on the journey, God bless you.
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Here's the full version: ua-cam.com/video/ZEoQTTXBzh4/v-deo.html
Thank you.
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@@tony1685 my question being raised 'what' deepens....
@@tony1685 Tony is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist cult founded by Ellen G White in America sometimes in 1800s. Jesus founded His church in 33Ad. No way SDA can be the true church
I was working in an evangelical church when I decided to convert after discovering church history. I can identify with his struggles with his wife. The Coming Home network gave me some awesome support. God bless Ken and The Coming Home network.
Welcome home 🎉
Thank you for this testimony. Prayers that soon all humanity will be converted to the Catholic faith 🙏🏼♥️📿
Humanity will soon convert after the Warning experience to the Catholic Church because everyone would be looking for a priest to CONFESS their sins.
Amen!!!!!!!
I am just floored by this conversion story, he touched on so many things that I am currently experiencing. I am in RCIA and leaving a baptist/non-denominational church. When this gentleman described hearing a protestant argument and saying that his search was over and he could remain baptist.. only to be pulled back like a magnet.. I have been TELLING people this! I have just been describing it as a thorn in my side! This was SO encouraging for me to hear right now.
God bless you! Praying for you.
Be encouraged
Love yr story gravity....❤❤
God bless us all what a magnificent thing. I was from a baptist influenced Assembly of God church and been a catholic for two years now was confirmed last Easter the best decision. God is so merciful to me. I’ll be praying for you
May God give your heart and mind peace.
John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Great interview.. the section where he relays a story about Scott Hahn- goes like this:
Somebody in his congregation, a young teenager or maybe somebody in their early 20s, asked Scott where in the Bible does it say “sola scripture” or by the Bible alone.. Scott looks at him and and is stumped, then says “well that’s a stupid question! “ The kid then says “well, give me a stupid answer. “
I thought that was such a funny story that Scott told- I’ve heard it a couple of times on some different, UA-cam channels where he’s talking about his early days before Catholicism.
I’m always fascinated with all of these protestant ministers, who basically turned to Catholicism at some point the bravery of basically ending your career, or forcing yourself to go out of business, and something you’ve done all your life is incredibly brave to do especially for these pastors with wives and young kids.. They are really putting themselves into economically dire situation.. I guess that’s why “journey home “ is such a powerful ministry for these people… thank God For Marcus Grodi
This is so cool to hear the Other Side of Scott Hahn's story. He tells about talking to some previous pastor after Scott had become Catholic who had called in shock about Scott's decision. Given the dialog Ken tells, at least one of those guys was Ken. Glad you came Home, too, Ken. Enjoyed your journey story.
At 21:00 the comment about so many protestant denomination splintering was one prime reason for me converting to being a Catholic. Im in my 50's and was a lifelong Baptist.
Glad to hear there is hope. My hubby stopped Baptist Church in his college years. 35 years of being married to a faithful Catholic has still not softened his heart enough. Big-time spiritual warfare is the only reason I can understand. Dear BVM, ora pro nobis.
@@bajone02keep praying, sister
I was raised a Baptist and in 1987. Welcome Home to you!
@@tony1685 Tony is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist cult founded by Ellen G White in America sometimes in 1800s. Jesus founded His church in 33Ad. No way SDA can be the true church
WELCOME HOME
Love Ken. To all the viewers he's a part of a great series called On the Journey with Matt, Ken and Kenny.
Those who have never heard of the "On The Journey" Matt, Ken and later Kenny it is akin to a Masters Program taught by your favorite close friends. TREAT YOUR SELF
Ken is Gold!
Every conversion story is unique because each of us a unique creation of God🙏
I love all these stories and Ken is a fired up guy who is a great advertisement for Catholicism🙏
It takes great courage to convert as Ken and Scott did but ultimately truth drives them🙏
Thank God for writing history with crooked lines🙏
Love you brother, people like you motivate me to study harder to protect our faith for the love our lord.
God bless you, brother.
Thank you for sharing your story Ken. I am very happy you made your choice to join the Catholic Church. You will not regret it. May God bless you always!
Thank you for sharing the testimony of your conversion. The Lord is always waiting for you and many other Pastors of other denominations to come to Him.
Welcome Home Ken.
His message is mesmerizing, his sincerity, truth and energy captivated my attention.
Thank you for the interview and posting his return to the church.
Great interview and testimony.
Once we see and understand, it can’t be unseen or hidden. The Hound of heaven always prevails! God bless!
Amazing testimony! One has sometimes to take a totaly drastic step to find the truth!!!
Great testimony.
The Catholic Church true biblical and earyhly history speaks for itself and its sort of magnetically and mysteriously attracts people. That is the way God works in people's conversion.
Thanks for sharing this story🤗I follow your channel Ken. Thank you and God bless you too🙏
Great testimony Ken. So great that you were open to Scott Hahns tapes
Thank you so much for sharing your great testimony. Thank you so much.
I wonder why the protestants and evangelicals are so hostile to Catholics? What have the Catholics done to them. If they think the Catholics are wrong, let God be the judge. Leave it to God to decide who is wrong.😊
Just like how I wonder why the Pharisees were so hostile to Jesus , when all Jesus did was healed and preach the word of God.
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I must ask you kindly- what have Protestant-ants done to the Catholics? It is “Protest” - many have never searched for the truth. If they do, they’ll be catholic. God bless
I enjoyed the full length episode. It’s a great treat to see the edited version now. Hope to see more.
Great guest and video!
May the All Holy Trinity Bless Protect And fill you with an abundance of Truth Graces and Virtues to understand the difference between human love and God’s Love Amen 🙏
Great videos!! Thank you for your work!! God bless you abundantly!
I'm a candidate for my Sacraments. I love the tone in this presentation. My background is Baptist, Charismatic, and Anglican traditions. I've been trying to "figure out" Christianity ( past the Roman Road) for years, decades! I.e. How did God get into Mary? How is the blood of Jesus saving me? You guys are nailing it!!!😮
God bless you, Ben! Thanks for sharing.
Oh it's good to put a face to the name I heard Scott Hahn mention his friend ken(Kenny) love from New Zealand 🇳🇿🇨🇰💯🔥♥️
I’m so very convinced that God the Father has led you to his Son Jesus Christ in his One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church Of Traditional Teachings and Worship,may you be solidly imbed into the Rock of Peter upon whom Jesus the Son of God started his One True Church Amen Amen Amen 🙏 🐑🕊️✨🌈
I've always wondered why you always hear Protestants criticizing Catholics, but not the other way around.
Excellent content
Thanks!
Thanks, Erik! God bless.
He’s one of my favorite converts!
@33:30. I found this kinda funny how he decides he doesn’t feel right about meeting with the new members- he doesn’t feel right about convincing them they made the right choice- and then you mentioned “yeah a lot of those people are probably ex-Catholics “. And I’m thinking if he’d actually meet with this class, he probably tell the catholics “go back!! Got back to Mass!!”
We need to lobby for a proper CATHOLIC rosary symbol 📿
Very listenable and charming. Thanks. The video cuts off at the end.
Here's the full video: ua-cam.com/video/ZEoQTTXBzh4/v-deo.html
Pride is evil, seek truths, come home to Jesus Christ Church and receive his body and blood in the Holy Eucharist.
This is Ken Hensley by the way.
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Padre Pio, and the rosary
Is there a continuation of this testimony...its cut.
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Amen Amen Amen
I am listening to you and remember how I felt going to Incarnate Word School. The school is part of an old Mission! The Catholic sisters our teachers would make us spend time playing ball after we finish lunch! So I didn't like playing any kind of sport so I would spend an hour just sitting on the last pew of the church! I would hear the school bell and go in the school building,! I am old and still go to Holy Mass , got married and my kids all married there!; Sometimes I still go and still sit on the last pew , and meditate for a while! I still receive Holy Communion and feel I am real! I see videos on Christian churches and the way they pass a tray with little cookies to and a tray with wine in tiny cups and people grab and compare Holy Communion in the Catholic Church! We believe Jesus is present in the Holy Eucharist! And we receive it from the priest and not a tray passed around for everyone to get one , I felt closer to my belief,!
Where’s the full length video?
ua-cam.com/video/ZEoQTTXBzh4/v-deo.html
Is there a second part of this video? I wanted to hear the whole story😢
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Glad the scales fell off your eyes. You cannot deny history and be very educated.
Where is the rest of the interview? There must be a part 2!
Here's the full interview: ua-cam.com/video/ZEoQTTXBzh4/v-deo.html
@@CatholicReCon I didn't realise that was a cut down version! I presume that this is the first 47 minutes?
Fascinating how his wife got on board! Polycarp can go fish!
@@BensWorkshop Basically, yes. I cut some of the intro and outro. Thanks for watching!
And appreciated. There are so many great videos but such little time. ❤ @CatholicReCon
@@ruthgilmour8399 There are indeed!
Well I'm curious. Went to Mass with neighbors most of my teen years - whilst being a Methodist. Now 45 years later I went to mass last week at a tiny new chapel in town. Just loved the vibe and sincere people. Only found the way the priest presented the service SO off-putting. He is from a different culture where louder is probably seen as a better message, and literally screamed at us the whole time. All the prayers were rambled off as if he was in such a rush - no heart to it. I would love to visit again, but not if I'm going to be bombarded like that. This parish is the only option for 120km. Please 🙏 for me
Belinda, I will certainly pray for you. God bless you.
Hey wait! Then what happens after a Christmas 😅Eve???
ua-cam.com/video/ZEoQTTXBzh4/v-deo.html ... full video
Polycarbonate remembers seeing Jesus when he was a child .
So ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselve...
For each human it ought to be about Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified. He came to earth, became a human being, lived a sinless life ,took all our sins on Him on the Cross of Calvary, 2000 years ago in Jerusalem, Israel, and on the 3rd day God raised Him from the dead and He is alive. Why else did Jesus come down to earth? To take our sins on Him so we may be washed by His blood and, being born again we are righteous, through faith through our Lord Jesus Christ, and what He has done. So now we have peace with God , because of our faith in Jesus .
How wil the world know that we are His children , because we have love for one another . We should be united in Christ and Him as the centre of our focus .
It shouldn't be what I want , but what Jesus wants . When one go from one denomination to another and then back again, people might think that it is about what I want , and not what Jesus wants .
Did Paul maybe die for us ? Or Peter or Barnabas ? No , Jesus died forr us , so our hearts and minds should be on Him , not on what I want or what sounds right dor me ... We must be careful ro not become "me or i" centered, bit we should become Christ centered. Just now we become tossed to an throw like a ship on rough sees .
It was when Petee kept his eyes on Jesus, that he got out of that boat, in pitch darkness in the middle of a stormy sea ...but the moment He started to focus on what was going on around him , he sank ... Lucky for us ,who Jesus is ,that He is faithful! Because even after Peter lost faith in those moments and started to sink, hthe moment he cried Lord save me ,Jesus grabbed him by his arm and restored him immediately.
Let us focus again on Jesus , the One who not only created us, but came to warth, died and rose again ! We await Him from heaven , whom God also raised from the dead, the Son of God, to save us from the wrath of God that is too come upon the world .
We should die , so Jesus might become more in our lives , so others who are still in darkness may see His glorious light in us . But the more sand grains one throw on a flashlights glass, the less light wil shine from it , and the more things we are busy with other then Jesus, the less His light wil shine from us . Let's be the body , not the muddy .
Grace and mercy ,peace and joy of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen
We follow what Jesus said: Thou art Peter and upon this rock I shall build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it- Jesus founded the Catholic Church , gave us 12 apostles to go and teach all nations baptizing them( infants, children, adults) in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit” and in the upper room after the Resurrection-“whose sins you shall forgive are forgiven, whose sins you shall retain are retained.”!The Sacrament JESÚS gave us - confession. Please read more and be open to the Holy Spirit.
I'm Catholic and I remain Catholic primarily out of my love for our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. However, I can honestly tell you that I have grown extremely weary of listening to Catholic Priests who give extremely poor, superficial homilies, that wouldn't even suffice as pablum. I would rather listen to protestant ministers preach, and yes, I know, they are in error. Perhaps former protestant pastors could TEACH Catholic Priests how to preach!!! Why are Catholic Priests homilies so awful and what can we do to fix this problem?
Please,pray to the Holy Spirit to give your priest a meaningful homily. Amen.
@@user-hb8vy6vo5s thank you. I pray for priests, and I already ask the Holy Spirit to direct and anoint their words. However, we know that not all priests are men of prayer, are walking with the Lord, and believe in the Gospel.
It’s poor instruction at the seminary level to be honest
The eternal word of God is the spiritual seed we are born of with an eternal Father. We hear,believe, and decide with godly sorrow to return to the ways of God. Water Baptism is a decision - a marriage ceremony for adults as it is for a man and a woman who commit to one another. The sacramental way is not biblical. Let God be true and every man be a liar. There was a lot of inventing going around even in the days of Paul and Peter. Mary is not a God. She can't hear your prayers. IDOLATRY.
That’s a good attempt friend. Keep searching for the truth. You’ll find your way to Rome soon.
How many times must be told that we ask Mary to pray for us. Why is it that you can pray for me and not the mother of God. How conceited and vain can a person be. You and your kind continue with the same line. Is it idolatry if I ask you to pray for me.
Go to a Mass and just sit in the back and listen and watch the beauty
Mark 9, can you explain why dead Moses appeared to Jesus at the transfiguration? can you explain how the 24 elders before the throne of God add incense (which i take here as intercessory) to our prayers without hearing those prayers in the Rev 5:8 And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. ( So if you can give the answers to these mysteries, you will know that Mary is not God , but a Holy one of God, like the 24 elders and even more than them because she was in touch with the Christ for 9months in her womb, she cleaned him and suckled him for the first 2years, she kept him for all the time until he died, she is a great saint to pray for us. Alright, if the saints can not hear our prayers yet they are friends of God, how does satan & his demons know about our plans, how do they interfere in our holiness yet they are not friends of God ? My friend once we are in the presence of God in his glory in heaven , we share in the fulness of heaven, and so we recieve all that is heavenly because there in heaven there is no boundaries, Yahweh pewrmits the saints & Angels to hear our prayers , and they present them to Him. Can you also ,answer how angels hear our prayers? Because I read thus , Rev8:3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. 4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. ( how can the Angel present Incense with our prayers without hearing them?).
Oh boy, please educate yourself. Read the early church fathers please! There was no Bible written for 1500 years- writings of the early church fathers and oral tradition. Every sacrament is in the Bible !
I see, you decided to work directly for the devil instead of indirectly
@@SarahD-uy5pf please enlighten me, since you think that you know it all. I'm very much in touch with reality. It is you that is ignorant