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The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

Why I Left the Catholic Church

The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

Ascension

Self-improvement, Education, Christianity, Jeff Cavins, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Bible Study, Catholic, Catholicism, Christian, Catholic Bible Study, Ascension, Ascension Press

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What was it that made Jeff Cavins leave the Catholic Church as a young adult? Today, Jeff Cavins shares about the events and circumstances that led up to his leaving the Catholic Church. He also shares about his journey to falling in love with Scripture. Next week, be sure to tune in and hear about why Jeff returned to the Catholic Church over twenty years ago.

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"I was intrigued by their sense of community. They did everything together and I desired to have the kind of friendships I saw."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Jeff Kaven show where we talk about the Bible discipleship and

0:05.8

Evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples

0:12.4

This is show 326 why I left the Catholic Church

0:22.8

Well, I've finally got around to answering the question I get more

0:27.1

email and requests from people asking

0:30.2

Why did you leave the Catholic Church? How come we over the points? Why did you leave it? And so I thought

0:35.3

Well, you know what? I'm gonna do a couple of shows

0:37.1

I'm gonna do a show on why I left the Catholic Church and I didn't leave it now. I'm not talking about that

0:43.9

I'm talking about why I left the Catholic Church back in

0:48.1

Wow back in the 1980s

0:50.6

I grew up Catholic and then I left and there were reasons why I left and I thought it would be just a good

0:56.4

thing to

0:57.7

To explain to you

0:59.5

How it happened, you know, and what were the major points that really caught my attention that resulted in ultimately leaving the Catholic Church and then going into a

1:08.8

Kind of a non-denominational environment where I went to school and then I was ordained a Protestant pastor and

1:16.8

There I was for 12 years as a Protestant pastor. So I want to go through it with you a little bit and maybe

1:22.8

Just maybe it's your story as well or it's one of your kids

1:27.2

I get a lot of people who say boy your story reminds me of our son

1:30.6

He went he's going through that right now

1:33.0

So as I share with you the the various steps that I went through here

1:37.5

Maybe it will be fitting to to pause for a moment and say well, you know

1:42.0

That's something to watch out for because if if I if it happened to me it can happen to your kids

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