A More Perfect Way

by Alex C. Jones

Problems and Solutions

Now on three tapes or CDs, popular Pentecostal preacher turned Catholic convert Alex Jones explores the problems and solutions of the Christian life in the inspiring series, A More Perfect Way. With powerful testimony from his personal experience of forty years as a Pentecostal Pastor, Alex Jones reveals how the treasures of the Catholic Church are the best-kept secret in our country, and now he wants to share that "secret" with the world.

In "Trail of Thorns," you'll explore the mystery of suffering and discover, while God does not send suffering, He also doesn't exempt us from suffering. Alex reveals that whether we experience emotional, physical or spiritual pain, our suffering is redemptive because it is in our pain that God identifies with us-and how God is the only One who can take the bad things that happen to us and turn them around.

Salt and Light

Alex's next presentation is "The Kiss of Reconciliation." You'll come to a new appreciation of God's love and forgiveness as Alex uncovers how, in response to God's unconditional love, we are all called to holiness. In fact, he reveals that each Catholic is called to share in Christ's role as prophet, priest and king. You'll discover how, by virtue of our baptism and confirmation, each of us is called to speak for truth; how we share in Jesus' priesthood because we offer our lives as a living sacrifice; and how, wherever we go in leadership, we must lead in righteousness and justice, because God is restoring justice in His church and in His people, and because we are "God's light and God's salt."

"Fulfilled Pentecostal"

Finally in"A More Perfect Way," you'll begin to see the Sacraments in new ways through the eyes of the self-described "fulfilled Pentecostal." Alex powerfully reminds us, "If you don't believe it, you can't receive it," but he insists that salvation does not come through faith alone. Showing how God uses temporal things to communicate grace to His people, Alex Jones delivers a powerful testimony to Sacramental theology through stirring stories from the Bible that demonstrate how faith alone does not save us, rather it is faith received in and through the Sacraments that brings eternal life.

Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

For twenty-five years, Alex Jones was the senior minister of two churches in the city of Detroit: Zion Congregational Church of God in Christ – the second oldest Pentecostal church in Michigan – and Maranatha Christian Church, an Evangelical/Charismatic church. In March 1998, while reading the apostolic fathers and subsequent church history in preparation for a Wednesday evening bible study, Alex Jones discovered the Catholic Church to be charismatic/liturgical, hierarchical, and Eucharistic-centered. In light of that revelation, Alex and his wife Donna began a two year journey into the Catholic Church that culminated in fifty-four members of his previous congregation, including fourteen members of his own family, entering the Catholic Church. The group began R.C.I.A. at St. Suzanne Catholic Community on September 10, 2000 and were welcomed into the Catholic Church through confirmation during Easter Vigil on April 14, 2001. Alex Jones was subsequently ordained a Permanent Deacon in the Archdiocese of Detroit on October 1, 2005. Deacon Jones received his Masters in Pastoral Studies from Sacred Heart Major Seminary on April 28, 2007 and retired from the position of evangelization coordinator for the Archdiocese of Detroit on May 31, 2007. Deacon Jones currently serves the three parishes of St. Suzanne/OLGH, St. Mary of Redford, and St. Thomas Aquinas. He and his wife Donna have three sons and ten grandchildren.