Any Catholics have any other advice on this Awana problem? I feel kind of helpless in this regard as to how to keep the Goddaughter from being corrupted.
DB
Hi Fred,
This wasn’t a thread that attempted to Evangelize anyone. I was trying to prevent disaster for someone who I was charged with the responsibility of protecting. Soliciting help in this regard was the purpose of the thread.
I looked up your other posts when trying to get a context to your statement, hoping that you were answering from a Catholic background.
I think you’re smart enough to know the right thing, just like my sis. It comes down to obedience.
If you’re hanging out on
Catholic.com and choose not to come to the fullness of Christian teaching or reject Christ’s grace as conveyed via the Sacraments, (as it has been for many centuries) it won’t be because of a Catholic meanie like me. You’re a big boy and you’re defense of invincible ignorance in the hereafter may be greeted with even less hospitality.
God have mercy on both of us in that regard.
I’ll leave the Evangelizing to the pros such as Staples, Akin, and the other Catholics above me in the Faith on this board. I tend to be like a big-league hitter and look for pitches I can hit when it comes to Evangelizing and I take a pass on a lot of pitches until I get one down the plate.
Folks who don’t give a care about tone and just want the facts are less likely to be bothered by me.
My dad for example has decided to become Catholic. I take no credit for that at all mind you…Faith is a gift. I take ZERO credit for that and none is deserved.
I just wanted advice from Catholics on the subject and to ward you and other Evangelicals off on this subject.
No offense, and I’m sure that you and many other Evangelicals are much nicer than me.
Catholics tend to see ourselves as works in progress rather than Evangelicals who become perfected in the flash of an instant with a Believer’s prayer and clicking the heels 3 times like Dorothy when she said “no place like home”. Unfortunately, some Evangelicals still end up mean, as you can read in the older Awana threads telling little Catholic children that they’re going to hell.
I consider myself early in the overall journey, so hopefully God will give me decades more to complete it and the recent fall of my sister has no doubt challenged me with overcoming no small amount of resentment toward modern day heretics.
The divorce culture, the ignorance of the Evangelical voting block (Huckabee??? really???), and many other issues don’t help either. It’s something that I’m working on.
Nonetheless, I apologize for my tone and not being clear as to who I was directing the post at.
I actually did some of the early protestant Bible studies with my sis and the Evangelicals and just was sure they were nice folks who were misguided and that her Faith would withstand the insanity of it all. I just smiled and went along with it all and played Mr. Nice Guy. I would ask questions like “Didn’t the Catholic Church give us the Bible?” just to try to establish some perspective but the leaders would just get confused.
That was the wrong approach obviously and matters are grave now.
Before their family became fallen away Catholics, I often visited non-Catholic churches as part of my own music ministry. Unfortunately, this didn’t include Non-Denominational Mega-Churches, so I didn’t know how insidious this whole movement was. I knew a guy who worked in music at the HUGE mega Church in Houston that everyone knows (Pastor rhymes with Ovaltine) and he told me about it, but I didn’t see it as a movement then.
Nobody at a Methodist church for example has ever had such disdain for Catholicism that they tried to Evangelize me. I never tried to Evangelize them either, since there’s plenty of knowledge out there for them to find on their own.
I’ve been to more Presby, Meth, Baptist, Episcopal, etc. services than I could ever count, but never a Mega-Church (or McChurch if you will) until I went to hers one time. That’s the first time I’ve ever had the urge to run out of a “religious” service, and I thought I had a broad view of Christianity before then.
That said, PM me if you have any questions and I’ll try my best. Just know that there are obviously tons of better, nicer, and more qualified Apologists who work here or frequent here.
You should call Catholic Answers live sometime if you have any questions. They are all excellent - much nicer, smarter, and better informed than me.
Again:
Any Catholics have any other advice on this Awana problem? I feel kind of helpless in this regard as to how to keep the Goddaughter from being corrupted.
DB
