Ex-Catholics - Anyone evangelized these rare gems?

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I think St. Augustine is said to be the “Father of Calvinism”, but I could be miskaten.
 
I sit down and get to know them Sadly I found they are not really angry at the church but angry on what they think the church is

Examples of people I have worked to evangelize

Ex-catholic turned baptist b/c his wife to be was previously married and his parents are divorced

Ex-catholic turned baptist because his mother was an adulterous and mentally ill

So both need someone to be angry at and it’s emotionally easier for them to
Be angry at the catholic church than their parents
 
It has been easier to evangelize a catholic that doesn’t go to church get to know them and by them saint medals I just bought my sister a Joan of arch medal she was so happy
 
jpink1019 said:
I was raised in a baptist church and really… its hard to describe the way that i feel when I read these responses.
Protestants and other christians as “misinformed” “misguided”
The catholic faith being the one True Faith.
Also the idea that former catholics were “lured” away by the message of other denominations.
In reality, while growing up I have visited many different churches baptist, pentacostal, southern baptist, non-denominational and other services and the messages do not preach against catholicism. There was never a message that mentioned the catholic faith.

Hearing for myself, the message always focused my mind on the gospel, on Christ, and learning what it meant to follow Christ, God’s commandments for us as christians.

What exactly was luring these catholics away from their faith?
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Every denomination I had visited always openly preached against Catholicism.

Same old lies: worship Mary, worship images, praying for Saints is Spiritism, don’t know about the Bible, etc.

Calvinists are the most stubborn people in the universe. I prefer to debate with an atheist rather than a Calvinist/Pentecostal.
 
ChurchMilitant, that’s a very interesting testimony!

Your testimony doesn’t really fit the stereotype in the OP. In fact the tables were turned. You beat what that guy said not head on but by doing your research for your own benefit, leaving it to God how that will have its knock on effect on him.

I agree one has to keep distancing oneself from churches because they “pull lame stuff” of one kind or another - under our noses - rather than because a minority some years back.

My own approach is to get God to not distance me from His people as a whole. In particular, I need to stay close to those whom I can help develop their ministries and they mine.
 
nickybr38 said:
My title is slightly sarcastic. I cannot TELL you how many times I hear stories about people who were DEVOUT, well studied Catholics who ended up being delivered from the evils of the Catholic cult and are now safely nestled in the arms of the Baptist, Pentecostal or Etc faith.

Usually they espouse that Catholics don’t know Jesus, don’t have the Holy Spirit and worship Mary. All while claiming they were well studied Catholics.

These types just make me so angry that I have a hard time talking to them.

Has anyone had any success dialoguing with this type of Christian? Do you try to evangelize them? Correct their misinformation? Or do you just leave them alone?
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Dialougue? Yes…sucess…not yet
 
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