Witnessing to a Catholic

“I was raised in a Catholic family and left Catholicism 2 years ago. How do you witness to Catholic family members and also people I used to go to the Catholic church with?” Steven Gorges

Most Catholics (like most non-Catholics) may go to church and know the gospel, but many lack something vital when it comes to their eternal salvation.

Let’s say I meet Fred. After some friendly small-talk I ask what he thinks happens after someone dies. He tells me that they go to Heaven, and then he says something I don’t hear. He says, “I’m Catholic.” I’m deaf to that because I don’t want to get into an argument about papal infallibility, Mariology, the Mass, the confessional, transubstantiation, and a number of other unbiblical doctrines. They are time-wasting rabbit trails down which I choose not to go.

I ask Fred if he’s born again. He says that he was baptized as a baby, and so I explain that the new birth is something different, that Jesus said that if someone isn’t born again he won’t enter Heaven (John 3), and that I want to make sure he makes it there. He smiles in agreement.

Although Fred is a committed Catholic he has a big problem. He thinks he can make it to Heaven by being good, by believing in God, by going to mass, and by confessing his sins to a priest. With the help of God, I want to show him that his legs are tied and the leap he’s trying to make to Heaven is wider than the widest part of the Grand Canyon. My sincere hope is that he will reconsider his beliefs, before he makes the jump.
So how do I show him that? I ask him if he thinks he’s a good person. To see how this is done go to NoahTheMovie.com and watch this principle in action, as I go through the Ten Commandments, and then into the gospel.

Watch again and again until it becomes second nature to you to do it. This isn’t something I have made up. I copied it from Jesus (see Mark 10:17-20, and Romans 2:20-22). -Ray Comfort