This post is the introduction to a short series, each focusing on something good I’ve received in each part of the Christian world I’ve been in, Evangelical, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.

I’ve experienced good in all parts of the Christian world I’ve been in, Evangelical, Catholic and Orthodox, received many good and helpful things. Not that they’re all perfect, or all the same, or differences don’t matter. But each has given me something good I’ve benefited from personally and am grateful for.

But in each I’ve also encountered what I’ve come to call the “True Church mentality,” emphasis on mentality. Not among all or most believers, but among smaller circles of people within each part.