Here's an email question from Abby in Millersville, Maryland, Pastor John in the past few years

I've heard from several former Protestant friends, 20-somethings from a variety of evangelical

denominations that they are joining the Catholic Church.

Some of these friends are saying that they place a higher value on tradition than on

Scripture.

They are people with whom I spent years ministering and studying Scripture.

What's going on here are these just non-believers who are being weeded from the fold.

And what do you say, Pastor John?

The road to Rome is not a new phenomenon.

It was happening when I was in college.

It's always been happening ever since there was a church.

People have left and people have returned to the Roman Catholic Church and I suspect it

will always be as long as both kinds of churches exist.

It would be way too rash to say that everyone who makes the trek from Protestantism to Roman

Catholicism are unbelievers who are being weeded out of the fold.

They're just too many different kinds of reasons and the stories are never over in this life.

So if a person goes this way or that way, you don't know where they're going to end up

and so don't write them off in either case.

There are a lot of reasons and it might be helpful for me to give you my take on why do

people sometimes gravitate towards Roman Catholicism out of evangelicalism?

I give you four things.

One, many people of those who return to Rome are hungry for seriousness and are tired

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