How did some protestants tried to convert you?

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I can count on both hands the number of Anglicans I know personally and for any length of time, approximately 28 yrs. One a very old friend (that is, until she made one to many insulting remarks about our Popes and disparaging remarks about the Blessed Virgin and our beliefs).

Her son an Anglican priest, that I have known since he was born and had an ordination party here at the farm for him, married a very sweet girl who’s father is also an anglican priest and while at their engagement party held nothing back seated at the table next to mine and preceeded to explain why Catholics are wrong blah and blah and that they need to do thus and so knowing full well I am a Catholic and when reminded I am a Catholic he just stared down at me and proceeded on.

I was invited to their church once and while there most of the congregation tried desperately to get me to receive their communion explaining that they are really catholics. Ahhh no thanks I didn’t just fall off that cabbage truck.

This is my experience with the Anglicans that I have known personally and have come into contact with for quite a number of years. You can take it and what I keep trying to explain to you for what you feel it is worth or not.

It would great if you lived close by as I’d be glad to go to Mass with you.
 
horselvr said:
It would great if you lived close by as I’d be glad to go to Mass with you.
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Yeah I hear ya. In my experience I’ve never met people so hateful of the CC, most Evangelicals I know believe that believing in Christ and doing His will shall get you eternal life. Nothing about the devilish CC, rather those who are in the CC if they know Christ and love Him are well off. (which they do)

I go to Mass every now and then but it’s very uncomfortable. Catholic Churches are made up of old people and families where I am. There’s no groups I can join where I feel welcome as a young man. Like it was said (kind of ironic imo) we’re nice, loving, and then BAM, we hook you with companionship and love. It’s how we get more to come to know Christ haha. I would love for Catholics to do this for me, but they don’t… not where I am anyways.
 
If you travel a lot you’ll probably find some “born again” at the airport trying to convert you.
 
dronald said:
Yeah I hear ya. In my experience I’ve never met people so hateful of the CC, most Evangelicals I know believe that believing in Christ and doing His will shall get you eternal life. Nothing about the devilish CC, rather those who are in the CC if they know Christ and love Him are well off. (which they do)

I go to Mass every now and then but it’s very uncomfortable. Catholic Churches are made up of old people and families where I am. There’s no groups I can join where I feel welcome as a young man. Like it was said (kind of ironic imo) we’re nice, loving, and then BAM, we hook you with companionship and love. It’s how we get more to come to know Christ haha. I would love for Catholics to do this for me, but they don’t… not where I am anyways.
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Part of the reason for this is because the Catholic faith really revolves primarily around Mass. Sure, sometimes we have coffee & donuts after Mass, and there are often prayer groups, but these things are considered optional. And at Mass, it is considered bad form to even talk to your family - your focus is to be on God. In addition, the time before Mass is to be a time of silent prayer, to prepare oneself for Mass.

Many Catholics get quite annoyed when, before a Mass starts, the choir directs us to practice the Mass parts or a new song, or to say “Hi” to our neighbors, because it disrupts our prayer. This may be why you don’t really feel welcome. It’s not that the parish isn’t welcoming - it’s that people in the Catholic Church hate our prayers (especially our meditational prayers) being interrupted.

Regardless, if you live close enough to a university, chances are that there’s a Newman Center/Catholic Campus Ministry right next to the university. As a single young man, a place like that may make you feel more comfortable, as it has more activities geared toward young people.
 
souldiver said:
What do some of them do? One thing I remember is that one denomination brought pamphlets and comics about Revelation.
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A friend of mine who knows I’m Catholic and attend church has repetitively invited my wife and I to go to his non denominational church. I could be wrong and I haven’t asked him why he keeps inviting us knowing we already belong to a church. To my mind he is either doing this as a indirect means of “converting us” without coming out and saying anything directly or based on his low view theologically speaking of the church in which case he doesn’t see any significance in what church one attends as long as it “teaches the Bible”. My hunch is it’s a little bit of both.
 
simspt said:
A friend of mine who knows I’m Catholic and attend church has repetitively invited my wife and I to go to his non denominational church. I could be wrong and I haven’t asked him why he keeps inviting us knowing we already belong to a church. To my mind he is either doing this as a indirect means of “converting us” without coming out and saying anything directly or based on his low view theologically speaking of the church in which case he doesn’t see any significance in what church one attends as long as it “teaches the Bible”. My hunch is it’s a little bit of both.
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Invite him to a Catholic Mass and you’ll get your answer.
 
Maybe it’s just “where I live” but I’ve not noticed too many people really out to “convert” me. Even those who come to the door and are commonly thought of as very far from Catholicism or rather Anti-Catholic have always treated me with respect.
Of course they should treat me with respect since they have entered my property in order to spread (their version of) the good news.

Anyway - Where I use to send them away I have - more recently - invited a couple in for discussion. In particular I wanted to talk with some Mormon missionaries since one of my stepsons is LDS but I can’t really talk with him about it.
It was a pleasant enough discussion - though I think I may have gotten a bit “adamant”…🤷…since I told them that we could not discuss any of their theology until the matter of the “great apostasy” was settled. If they could convince me of the truth of the great apostasy, then we could discuss other matters. Naturally that did not go too well for them. WE parted amicably and I hoped that they might return, but in truth I’ve not had an LDS knock on the door since then…and that’s been at least three years.

The one “confrontation” I had was with a co-worker and was during my “heathen days”. I was not practicing and knew just enough to be a pain in the buttocks. 😃
However in his case I didn’t mind “tweaking his nose” so to speak since his behavior in general spoke of insincerity. Today I’d probably handle it somewhat differently.

All that said, I have to say that I’ve found most people who bring up the subject to be polite and sincere. They are seeking to bring people closer to Christ. They come to the door, ask their questions, leave their materials, make their invitation and we part on good terms with an exchange of “God bless you”.

Just some thoughts

Peace
James
 
simspt said:
A friend of mine who knows I’m Catholic and attend church has repetitively invited my wife and I to go to his non denominational church. I could be wrong and I haven’t asked him why he keeps inviting us knowing we already belong to a church. To my mind he is either doing this as a indirect means of “converting us” without coming out and saying anything directly or based on his low view theologically speaking of the church in which case he doesn’t see any significance in what church one attends as long as it “teaches the Bible”. My hunch is it’s a little bit of both.
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Invite your friend to a Catholic Mass first.
 
Christmas season is here. Just had two JW ladies knock on the door.
 
By politely telling me I’m an idol worshipping pagan who works for his salvation.
 
horselvr said:
There was only one preacher that came close to meeting his maker with me and that was the preacher down the road at the “Tell it to Jesus Church”. His granson and my son (age 9)went to school together and he decided to take the boys to lunch without my permission. At lunch he and his grandson proceeded to tell him that he was going to hell and that I as a single Mom needed a man to bring me to the correct church because Catholics worship Mary, Saints blah, blah. He also told my son that he was going to baptise him in his protestant church to save him from his Mother (me) and the Catholic Church and hell.

Oh yea, Katy Bar the Door. I don’t think he will ever forget me and the education he got on Catholicism.😉
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As a single mother myself, I can imagine how angry you were. I am so proud of you for letting him live! 😃
 
SecretaryMonday said:
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Has she read Right Behind and the sequel Supergeddon by Nate Wilson?
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Nope, I must check those out!
Also, if you look at the verses that mention some being “taken” and others “left,” I think “taken” usually means destroyed…if you get left behind, that’s a good thing.
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A very good point. 🙂
 
You do not really mean convert right like we belong to different religions. You guys must be joking I do cold call evangelism every year for a week during spring break in Daytona. When I meet a catholic I make sure that they are a christian and move on. There is a need for people making sure that people are not just claiming that they are christian. If you are truly a christian then they should not be trying to convert you. I have a few stories of coming across people who said they were catholic but who weren’t if that is what you mean by convert then yes I do that to all people who are catholic by title only but I also do that to people who are christian by title only.
 
dronald said:
This is a lot different than saying any Anglican that speaks to you says Catholicism is from the devil. I’m not calling you a liar, I’m saying that this is extremely hard to imagine.
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It’s hard for me to imagine as well. As a former Episcopalian/Anglican I was never an Evangelical. I believed that the Holy Eucharist are the true body and blood and not symbols. I worshipped in a church with an altar, tabernacle, statues and stations of the cross. In fact it is hard to tell the difference.

Going from Anglican to Catholic and then Orthodox required little adjustment.
 
Ok, fun conversion attempt story time!

A couple of years ago I was in Borders Books (Alas, it has closed!), in the Catholic book section when a young man and woman approached me. The man smiled and said in a latin accent, “Are you looking for the Truth, my friend?”
I thought “oh, boy.”. I am not trying to toot my horn but I am no slouch when it comes to apologetics. “Bring it.” I thought.

I turned to them smiling and explained I already had the Truth, but thanks. At this point I cannot remember exactly what their argument was only that it was ridiculous. Something about clouds usually being metaphoric for angels or something. They had with them a Bible and kept trying to proof text, each time I refuted each argument kindly and smiling. You had to do backwards summersaults to get the exegesis they had. I did explain, again politely, that they were ignoring Tradition. That my Faith is 2000 years old, their’s probably a few decades at most.
The woman slowly became more and more irate, the man had slinked behind her, still smiling but nervously realizing they were getting owned. At no point was a rude. I simply tore their arguments to shreds.

"Why would I listen to anything some Pope in Rome says?!, the woman, now a bratty girl, scoffed. At which point I mentioned that without the Church and Popes they cannot believe their own Bible since it is a Catholic book.
Finally, after going back and forth for several minutes, the girl almost slapped her Bible shut, and tossing it roughly in her bag and said quite icily, “We tried to share the truth with you. Thank you for rejecting it!” She turned on her heel and left. Her latin friend, nodded shyly still smiling and hurried after her.
“God bless!” I called after them happily.

Was a weird experience.
 
I’m sure it’s because of where I live that no protestants have tried to convert me (and I am already a convert any way) - here we Christians are only too glad to find other Christians and tend to get along.

In my home country we live on a farm - it has lots of benefits.
 
Well, last year when they knocked I was cleaning house and just happened to have the crucifix with rosary on it which hangs by the door in my hand dusting it, and some Gregorian Chant music playing.

I was holding it up towards them at the time. They took one look and turned around and ran to their car and took off.😃

I just yelled Have a Happy and Blessed Easter.
 
souldiver said:
What do some of them do? One thing I remember is that one denomination brought pamphlets and comics about Revelation.
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Just this morning, some missionaries cam to my door to hand out pamphlets.
My older brother didn’t think they were Jehovah’s Witnesses, I forget why.
 
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