His wife claims to have converted to Catholicism, but JP has not, though he continues to dance around it for some reason.
From my understanding, he seems to want to be very, very certain that he can and will in good faith actually and genuinely *live out* his belief as opposed to making some kind of milquetoast commitment. This video can shed more light though:
Of those thousands, tens of thousands, what sort of "Christianity" have they been "brought back" to? Protestantism, false Catholicism that grooves to the "Divine Mercy" chaplets, that still does yoga and reads the daily horoscope, that doesn't understand the heresy in the lyrics of Mary Did You Know? and if you did explain it to them, would still insist it's a nice song to teach to little kids for the "holidays"?
2 Kings 5 and Naman's conversion story comes to mind, specifically the part where Naman says this:
"Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”
The response Elisha gives is interesting. He says, “Go in peace.” Matthew Henry, in his commentary, has this to say: "It is not well violently to oppose the lesser mistakes which unite with men's first convictions; we cannot bring men forward any faster than the Lord prepares them to receive instruction."
That made a lot of sense to me. Christ's message about not putting new wine into old wineskins also comes to mind.
In any case, I can't help but think that the Holy Spirit often works slowly, "degree by degree" as the saying goes. Surely being brought to (or brought back to) Christianity, albeit perhaps an imperfect kind, is better than being left as an atheist in the devil's grip?
Whenever a public figure claims to have seen the light, we should think twice before falling for it, and especially think twice before allowing or encouraging others to fall for it.
I agree with this, and that's actually one of the things I like about JP. He's not saying he found "the light", per se. Rather, he's showing others some of the places he believes the light can be found in--and he keeps pointing more and more towards Christianity.