{"id":1345,"date":"2005-07-24T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2019-02-02T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:55:26","slug":"a-story-of-apostasy-and-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"A Story of Apostasy and Return"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The God That Prevailed: One Man’s Search for Spiritual Truth from Catholic Seminary to Herbert Armstrong’s Cult, and His Amazing Return to His Faith<\/p><\/div>\n

Dennis Embo is a Catholic who was once Catholic, then joined the Worldwide Church of God, and then returned home to the Catholic faith.\u00a0 He wrote a book called “The God That Prevailed: One Man’s Search for Spiritual Truth from Catholic Seminary to Herbert Armstrong’s Cult, and His Amazing Return to His Faith”.\u00a0 See Google Books<\/a> or Catholic Exchange<\/a> for a brief excerpt.\u00a0 There is a review on the old XCG blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When I left the Pasadena, California-based Worldwide Church of God (WCG) in early 2000, barely a year prior to my return to the fold of the Catholic Church, Catholicism wasn\u2019t even an option on my \u201cOK, what next?? list. I\u2019d left Catholicism almost thirty years prior in order to follow the WCG\u2019s nearly 70-year-old founder, an ad-man-turned-televangelist named Herbert Armstrong.”<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It can also be found on\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a> and Barnes & Noble<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Embo is a Catholic who was once Catholic, then joined the Worldwide Church of God, and then returned home to the Catholic faith. See Google Books or Catholic Exchange for a brief excerpt.<\/p>

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