I Left Catholicism to Find the True Church

Peter Kaisara: Mom and dad said, “Go to church.” If you don’t go to church, you get a smack on your backside. At the time, I thought that the Catholic [church] was the true church. When I started studying the Bible in the Church Of Christ, it really shocked my system. 

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 Peter Kaisara
Former Catholic

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My name is Ah-Ka-Peh-Kah. Peter Kaisara, born in the Cook Islands on the island of Rarotonga. We have six in our family, and I’m the last born and I’m the, you could say, the naughty…naughty one. While I was going to school, I was doing, you know, bad things, like drinking, smoking while at school. And pretty much partying, and when we go to school while drunk. Eventually, I quit school at a very young age. 

“Forced To Go To Church”

Mom and dad said, “Go to church.” If you don’t go to church, you get a smack on your backside. So it’s pretty much being forced to go to church, but to me, I had no clue what God is, and pretty much I’m just copying like everybody else.

Not to say that I’m a proud Catholic, I couldn’t understand what the Bible was saying. Even though I was reading it. I did feel that something in the Catholic Church wasn’t true. Seeing the doctrine of the Catholic Church, doing the opposite, that made me question, you know, my faith in the Catholic Church and made me want to search more. 

I posted a post about the Catholic Church and one of my friends in New Zealand commented on that post. So we were debating on that post in terms of the Catholic faith and one of the brothers in Perth, Australia, commented on the post and telling us, “Hey guys, you know, check this website.” I [thought], “He thinks that this is the true church”

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So he put the [incmedia.org] website underneath his comments. So that’s the site I went on and had a look at the website. 

“It Shocked My System”

When I [clicked] on incmedia.org, I started reading all these topic[s]. It was…to be honest, I haven’t read anything like this before. It was…I was at peace reading it. So I replied to this brother in Perth, his name is Don, and asking him for information on how could I find any local church in my area. So he came back two days later, and provided me with the phone number of one of the ministers in my area.

When I started studying the Bible in the Church Of Christ, it really shocked my system, and I said to myself, “I was doing all [of] these things the wrong way, worshiping God, praying to God.” Because in the Bible, the Bible said, “Do not worship idols.” And as you can see in the Catholic Church, they have all these statues scattered in the church. 

“The Lesson Was Amazing”

Listening to Brother Glenn, the first lesson he did… it actually [drew] me closer to the lesson. And as we go along to the second, to the third, it’s–my faith grew, and I truly believe that God has shown me the true Church. 

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Peter Kaisara

Joined the INC in 2021

Everything they said to me, actually [came] from the Bible, and they didn’t, you know, give their own opinion. And the lesson was amazing! Now that I fully understand, I was fired up, I was hungry, I needed more. 

“I’m On Top Of The World”

If I listen to Jesus Christ, telling us in John 10:9, “If anyone enters by me, he will be saved.”

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‘I am the door; anyone who comes into the fold through me will be safe…’

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That was the ‘aha’ moment for me. 

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Peter Kaisara was baptized in the Church Of Christ in 2021]

I feel that God has answered my prayer. I feel that He directed me to the true Church Of Christ and I feel that I’m on the top of the world because I know that God can actually hear my prayer. I feel grateful for the love and mercy of our Heavenly Father. 

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