Sin & Salvation?

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Along with praying and just being charitable to them, what can you say to people who don’t want to think about sin or salvation, or the fact that we all sin and need salvation specifically by Jesus Christ and no one else? How do we explain that salvation comes through no one else but Jesus Christ, and all anyone else can do that is good for us is lead us to Christ? What do you say to people who are afraid of admitting that they do not get into Heaven by “being good people” (“only God is good” says Jesus) and Jesus does not owe them salvation, but that they have to confess their sins and ask for His mercy? I see people who are miserable because they refuse to go to Jesus. And they are hostile to anyone who says they absolutely need Jesus. In addition to loving them and praying for them, and performing works of spiritual and corporal mercy for them and others God puts in our path, what should we keep in mind when interacting or talking or answering questions with these people? And please pray for me and those I meet in my attempts to lead people to Christ and the Sacraments of His Church. I ask that you pray to St. John the Baptist to help me obtain conversions to Christ’s Sacred Heart, Precious Blood, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. Pray that I may embody the mercy and love of Christ, that I may be invisible, and the only thing on the persons mind when I speak is when I will shut up so they can go visit their Lord, God, Creator and Savior, in the Adoration chapel, or at Mass.

Please pray to Mary as well, asking Her to assist me in bringing people to Her Divine Son by granting the people to whom I try to reflect Christ’s love through the faculties of my poor miserable body the graces they need to see Christ’s reflection as if through a darkened mirror. Seeing in my a dim reflection of Christ’s all encompassing love, as if through glass darkly, may they immediately reject my poor imitation for the real thing and immediately go to adore Jesus in the Tabernacle or in the exposed Blessed Sacrament on the altars throughout the world.

Jesus and Mary, I love You, save souls!
Amen.
 
Honestly - There really isn’t anything more that you can do - you’ve pretty much covered everything in your post.

When Jesus sent out the 12, He told the to go to each town and preach. If the town refused to listen, then they were to depart from there, “shaking the dust from your sandals as you leave”. Jesus concludes by saying,
Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomor’rah than for that town. (Mt 10:15)

Continue to pray. Continue to be charitable. Continue to be a Loving example…But know that in the end, only the Holy Spirit can bring them to salvation, and even then, only if the person accepts the Spirit…

May God help you this day and always to show Christ to all you meet.

Peace
Jame
 
There was a fat guy who worked in an office building in an insurance company. He was in bad shape and had trouble ever finding a date and could hardly get around the bases at the company softball games.

In his office was a really fit skinny guy who always working out and talking about his natural food diet and telling the fat guy to lose weight to be happy. Fat guy hated him and wouldn’t listen to a thing he said.

There was a woman in the office who was always giving him print-outs of great diets and extolling their virtues. Only she was kinda fat, too, and he never saw much change in her, so he ignored what she said.

But there was another guy in the office, he was a real nice guy, kinda quiet and he was always friendly to the fat guy and never said a word about his weight. Ever. Even though he was regular sized. He seemed like a happy kind of guy and he always found something nice to say about fat guy’s work, or some other way to complement him. So fat guy really liked being around him.

One day nice guy invites fat guy to come to lunch with him he says he always walks to the park and buys a wrap from a vendor there. Fat guy goes, and while it’s quite a walk, they chat and go slowly and he likes the turkey and vegetable wrap okay. And they do this a few times a week.

Pretty soon, fat guy notices his clothes are getting looser and he is getting to the park faster.

So, Josh, are you the most peaceful and kindest person everyone knows? Don’t tell people about Jesus, Josh. Be Christ to them. The rest follows.
 
Julia Mae,

What a Great Parable…👍👍
I’m gonna copy that one off if you don’t mind…

I think that things relating to health, weight and exercise are GREAT analogies because there is so much emphasis today on these things. The TV is full of ads for diets, exercise and “healthy foods” and “lifestyles”…
I often use such analogies to help people understand spiritual growth - you know - discipline, consistency and growing in holiness a little at a time (the same way that weight comes off or muscles get stronger).

Oops - Got off topic there a bit…

“Be Christ” is indeed the best advice.
Mother Teresa never asked about a person’s faith - She just Loved them…
Which reminds me of Paul’s passage in 1 Cor 13:1-13 where he is how nothing else matters if you don’t have Love, and so it is with evangelization. If we do not have Love we are as a “a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal”…

Peace
James
 
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