Okay, so let's talk about the Catholics, okay, because that's something you're going to deal
with a lot, and Catholics are some of the easiest people to win the Lord, thank God.
How many of you here are former Catholics?
Put up your hand if you've ever been a Catholic.
Yeah, look around.
A lot of people have been Catholic, and they've gotten saved, so this is a great mission field,
is winning Catholics to the Lord, getting them out of that false religion.
Here's what I do different with the Catholics.
I do everything the same, but I add one step at the end, and here's why I add this one step.
Catholics can sometimes tend to just go along with you and pray the prayer without realizing
that they're actually changing what they believe, maybe, because Catholics have been taught
to repeat prayers, so they might just repeat a prayer just like, oh yeah,
I repeat prayers all the time, maybe this can, you know, shave a little time off my sentence
in purgatory or whatever, so a lot of Catholics could just chant something with you,
or they could just be polite and friendly and go along with you, so I want to make sure that
doesn't happen when I'm dealing with Catholics, because I know that they tend to be that way
sometimes, so here's what I do with Catholics.
I get to the very end when I'm doing my wrap-up, right, and I'm asking the questions,
well after I ask my last questions, right before I pray with them, this is where I would insert
this, right before I pray with them, this is what I say, now you mentioned that you were Catholic,
right, or you mentioned you went to St. so-and-so the church, now let me just tell you the Catholic
Church teaches something completely different than what I showed you today, they teach that
you actually do have to go to church, you do have to do works, you have to confess your sins to the
priests, you have to take the sacrament, they teach that faith is not enough to save you,
but that you have to do all these other things, but I showed you from the Bible how it's all by
faith, so which one do you believe, right, which one do you believe, so I want to make sure they
know we're not just adding this on to your Catholic religion, we're not just pouring a
little new wine into your old bottle, no we're giving you new wine in a new bottle, and so we
say to them, you know, hey you mentioned you're Catholic, here's what the Catholic Church teaches,
here's what you just saw from the Bible, which one do you believe, now a lot of times at that point,
even though they've been with you up to that point, a lot of times you'll get to that point,
here's what they'll say, well you know I'm gonna stick with the the church, I'm gonna stick with
the Catholic Church, or I still believe, you know, the Roman Catholic religion, and you know,
you marry plays a role, or whatever, you know, they'll just start telling you how they're gonna
stick with being Catholic, but if the person actually understood and believed what you preached
to them, here's what they'll say, you'll say which one do you believe, and they'll say, well I believe
what the Bible says, that it's by faith, I'm gonna go with what the Bible says, yeah, and then at
that point you say, okay, well listen, let me pray with you before I go, and then boom, you
lead them to the Lord, that way you're not just going around praying with a bunch of Catholics
that aren't really getting saved, you want to make sure that they understand that we're not just
adding this on, this isn't just like a little add-on to Catholicism, this is...