Dear Friends at Calvary Chapel and Beyond, Something has come alive in me these past few weeks. I haven’t told anyone yet, but I’m writing now because I believe this needs to be said. Not out of condemnation, but out of conviction. Not to attack, but to awaken. What I’m about to say may challenge what you believe. But it’s not meant to insult. It’s meant to invite. I've decided to return to the Catholic Church. Why? Because I’ve come to believe something devastatingly simple: that Protestant churches—including the one I’ve attended—are not real churches. They are playing church. They may be sincere. They may be passionate. But they are not rooted in the original vine planted by Christ. They are branches that broke off—and I believe it is time to come home. Let me explain. The word “Protestant” means what it says: a protest. A movement not born from divine commission, but from rebellion. If the Church was truly founded by Jesus Christ—and has continued unbroken since the Apostles—then why would I cling to a movement that began fifteen hundred years later in protest against it? My faith is not a protest. I don’t want to build my faith on protest. I want to build it on Christ. ✠ What Martin Luther Really Did The man most responsible for that protest—Martin Luther—is often treated like a hero. But when I took a closer look, I saw a different picture. Toward the end of his life, Luther was sickly, angry, bitter, and deeply dissatisfied with what his rebellion had produced. He referred to the Epistle of James as an “epistle of straw.” He said the Book of Revelation was neither apostolic nor prophetic. He doubted Hebrews. He wanted the entire canon of Scripture rearranged to fit his theology. Let me say that again: Martin Luther wanted to remove books from the Bible—not just the Apocrypha, but even James, Hebrews, and Revelation. He succeeded in removing the following books from the Old Testament, now known as the Deuterocanonical books (or “Apocrypha” in Protestant circles):