Protestant Evangelization

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The most important mission is to bring people to Christ and follow His example, including not passing judgment on others. Pray and let the Holy Spirit guide you.
 
awantz said:
As Christians we should be witnessing to nonChristians, not our fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord.
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I used to think that way too, until I got a better handle of the concept of transubstantiation. Once that sunk in my heart just grew heavy listening to my once-Catholic-turned-protestant and protestant cohorts speak about christian charity, social justice issues, loving Jesus, etc. Because these comments pop up at odd intervals at work I don’t get the opportunity to ask them what I’d really like to:

“it’s obvious you have a personal relationship with Jesus and love him a lot. How could you turn away from receiving him physically through the Eucharist?” or

“You speak about Jesus being alive in each of us and of our obligation to live accordingly, but do you realize Jesus is truly physically present on this earth in and of himself - not just as represented by each of his followers? He’s present body, blood, soul and divinity in every tabernacle in every Catholic church for you to visit, sit with, talk to. You can become intimate with him through the Eucharist at every mass. Why would you turn away from that opportunity just because it’s “Catholic”?”

Heck, I have yet to sit down to ask my own siblings about it because the only time we are together is for special family social occasions and that is not the time or place to get into that type of a discussion. They will be offended, most certainly, and I will have to justify my comments, and at the office and in these social gatherings time and place works against evangelization.

Why evangelize to protestants? To lead them to physically receive the love of their lives, Jesus, through the Eucharist, that’s why. If they only knew Jesus was really still here on this earth and not just sitting in heaven waiting until the End Days, or symbolically present within Christian hearts, how much peace and comfort would they experience in their days as they face their personal challenges? That’s what we yield in our efforts - bringing true and lasting peace to our brothers and sisters in Christ.
 
war_eagle said:
I thought that Roman Catholics believed that we non-Roman Catholics were Christians.

Are you really saying that you’d rather they maintain their allegience to the Roman Catholic church, even if it means that they go to Hell, than to hear the Gospel and have the opportunity to be saved, even if it means leaving Roman Catholicism?

If you really believe that we’re Christians, then what’s the problem?

On the other hand, if you really believe that your version of the Gospel is so superior, then why aren’t you out evangelizing Christians?
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BANNED! Yet another hammer laid to rest. This is always too bad, because they could have actually learned the truth, and discovered that there was more to Christ than just the book written about him.

KateQ, This can be a tough one, but you must remind them of your faith tradition, that you have absolutely no doubt about your faith, and that to support activities against it would not look good to the Lord. Leading others away from Christ in the Eucharist is about the worst thing you could ever do. Actually, the Lord sends you such requests to test your ability to witness to your faith. So, bone up and bear witness! Yes, offer prayer for safety, (but not success 😉 ). Christ’s peace be with you.
 
YinYangMom said:
“You can become intimate with him through the Eucharist at every mass. Why would you turn away from that opportunity just because it’s “Catholic”?”
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What makes you think it is only Catholic?
Why evangelize to protestants? To lead them to physically receive the love of their lives, Jesus, through the Eucharist, that’s why. If they only knew Jesus was really still here on this earth and not just sitting in heaven waiting until the End Days, or symbolically present within Christian hearts, how much peace and comfort would they experience in their days as they face their personal challenges? That’s what we yield in our efforts - bringing true and lasting peace to our brothers and sisters in Christ.
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There is no reason to evangilize to Protestants. They already physically receive the love of their lives, Jesus, through the Eucharist. They do know Jesus is still here on this earth.They already experience much peace and comfort in their days as they face their personal challenges. Your brothers and sisters already have true and lasting peace.
 
KateQ said:
I am in a quandary. I have recently received a request for prayers and financial help for a mission trip from a co-worker’s child. They are both lovely people (parent and child) . My problem is that they are Baptists and the mission work is in an overwhelmingly Catholic country. So, I feel a little torn.

I think it is important that the child continues to grow in service to the Lord, and the mission project itself seems very useful. On the other hand, the “targets” will be Catholics.

Anyone want to give me some insight? Opinions? 🤷
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My best friend is Baptist, and a good Christian to boot. However, he was very understanding when I told him that I cannot support his mission in good conscience because of the errors in Protestantism.
 
Whatever you do, do not support this mission trip that this child is going on because the targets are Catholics. We should never support a work that is working to deconvert Catholics.
 
With all my love and respect to my brothers and sisters in Christ -Evangelical Christians , I would advise them to dedicate more attention to the charity service , and more wisely use of Spiritual and financial means.
May be I have no right to make the advises like this , but when I see what means are going to the stadium Evangelization , public places evangelizations , house to house crusades.
How many broshures and pamphlets you can collect after those evangelizations on the streets public squares, I am just thinking
Are there no other ways to bring people to Jesus ? ( Sorry for my bold thinking )

And the way they assure the people of being saved and born again , and those meatings of calculation of statistics after evangelization ( some times with those fake addresses on the repentance blanks)

Its good , its noble , its cincere , but some times I think its not wise , if you calculate the financial means and actually the results of those evangelizations.

Why not to dedicate the activity for the society service ?
I mean to encourage the church members for the ministry in the service of society ?

For example in my country;
I see the street kids who need proper orphanages.
There are the lonely old people or infirm people who need proper homes for them.
There is a lack of proper hospitals , protectories.
Why not to build the Christian agencies which protect emigrants , organizations who help to make better conditions of the prizoners, and many other ministries.

I think these forms of evangelization is not just a benefit to the society but one of the best ways of bringing people to Jesus .
I am sure , the society would respect them more and would not call them as destructive or totalitarian sects , as it is now in Russia or in some other countries of the ex-USSR countries.

Some times the missionaries of different denominations are coming forcingly to the people on the street and preach
  • atheistic deny of soul ( from the adventists preachers) , or how the christian must be transformed to the jew…or how important is a diet for salvation…
  • another preach how cosmetics , wine or beer can bring you to hell…
  • how dangerous is blood transfusion
  • how important to be the patriot of Israel and to wait its extension in the future.
  • how anti-christian is Catholicism…
    You know there , different kinds of missionaries , and some times
    they preach the things which are far from the spiritual reality.
We have to be wise enough to see the difference between the truth and false pseudo-missionaries theories.
 
Athanasiy said:
With all my love and respect to my brothers and sisters in Christ -Evangelical Christians , I would advise them to dedicate more attention to the charity service , and more wisely use of Spiritual and financial means. We have to be wise enough to see the difference between the truth and false pseudo-missionaries theories.
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Amen! 👍 Wise words, indeed. I find truth in your thinking. We are called to be one in Christ - not many.

Christ’s peace, brother.
 
My evangelical wife is involved in “Wheels for the World” an organization that distributes wheelchairs and walkers to those in need of mobility. They only go to places like Peru, Mexico, Africa…etc. They are a part of “Joni and Friends”. It’s a Non-Catholic Christian Organization. [locally alot of the volunteers are Baptist] We both are involved with the disabled community, my wife is a physical therapist and I’m a seating tech [specialized wheelchairs & seating]. We both find this charity close to our hearts as my wife has been on 3 mission trips and I contribute through my work. We are planning to go on a trip together someday. They do give away Protestant bibles to each person they fitt to a chair. They do very good things and from what I know personally they haven’t targeted Catholics. I don’t feel bad about helping [finacially or personally] because I see first hand what they do and how it blesses people. I have thought about the fact that they give out Protestant bibles [in their language]. At least the love of God is getting to them. I don’t know of any Catholic’s who are involved here locally but the day I become Catholic it will be a great way to let them see that a Catholic can be just as Christ driven, bible believing, prayerful and hard working. I think if as long as the charity is worthy and does not step on the Catholic Christian Faith it’s ok. Even though I no longer agree with my wife’s church’s teaching I still continue to tithe [for her] because they do good thing here in our city’s community.

Christ be in us, In all Things!
Jamie
 
war_eagle said:
I thought that Roman Catholics believed that we non-Roman Catholics were Christians.

Are you really saying that you’d rather they maintain their allegience to the Roman Catholic church, even if it means that they go to Hell, than to hear the Gospel and have the opportunity to be saved, even if it means leaving Roman Catholicism?

If you really believe that we’re Christians, then what’s the problem?

On the other hand, if you really believe that your version of the Gospel is so superior, then why aren’t you out evangelizing Christians?
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In case you missed what this person said - here it is again, “Even Billy Graham had the good sense to send wayward catholic to the nearest priest.”
Now, if that isn’t enough for you - Catholics don’t need to go to any protestant church to be “saved”.
The fullness of salvation is within the Catholic Church. Let me refresh your memory: The Catholic Church is the one, true church that Christ intended to exist after His ascension into heaven and of which He left Peter as its first Pope - 263 popes later to Pope Benedict XVI. All other protestant christians fall short of the fullness of faith. Your faith is incomplete. All you can offer a wayward catholic is the risk to move further from the one, true Catholic faith.
 
war_eagle said:
I thought that Roman Catholics believed that we non-Roman Catholics were Christians.

Are you really saying that you’d rather they maintain their allegience to the Roman Catholic church, even if it means that they go to Hell, than to hear the Gospel and have the opportunity to be saved, even if it means leaving Roman Catholicism?

If you really believe that we’re Christians, then what’s the problem?

On the other hand, if you really believe that your version of the Gospel is so superior, then why aren’t you out evangelizing Christians?
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Oh, and by the way, I am out evangelizing christians. Especially the ones that tell me that they “use to be catholic”. Those are more important to me that the ones that say and presume that they “are saved”.
 
My apologies to the moderators of CAF for my harshness of words. There’s just something about an arrogant protestant minister that gets me going.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
 
I have reminded the testimony of one Baptist Pastor ,who has moved
from the West of Ukraine with a team of missionaries to Evangelize the people who live in the most farthest areas of Siberia.
It was very touchable testimony.
The people in those areas never could hear about God and salvation.
Many of them live in the chronic criminality , drunkeness and debousheries.
When they recieve the message of salvation , even at their level of perception and believe , it is simply incomparable with living a godless life.
There are also the missionaries from different denominations who moved to Asia and Africa , and who live in constant dangers for their lives , preaching the message of salvation.

Let us remind the words of the apostle who in one of his epistles appreciates the preaching of those who preach Christ , even not in full truth.
 
But mind that the Baptists are involved in a lie , most disgusted lie that ever could be hear’d . I mean dispensationalism.
 
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