The Gospel According to Catholic's

[Scrawly]

Picture this:

There is a stadium full of people who have never heard of Christ, Christianity, salvation, etc. You, as a Catholic, have been invited to share your faith through the presentation of the Gospel. In a nutshell, precisely how would you go about articulating the Gospel to these people?

[Sparko]

What is it with you and Catholics?

[apostoli]

Picture this:

There is a stadium full of people who have never heard of Christ, Christianity, salvation, etc. You, as a Catholic, have been invited to share your faith through the presentation of the Gospel. In a nutshell, precisely how would you go about articulating the Gospel to these people?

Drawing on my RCC education, I'd recite the Lord's prayer. And if pressed resort to John 3 to expand Christian belief.

[RBerman]

[Scrawly]

Drawing on my RCC education, I'd recite the Lord's prayer. And if pressed resort to John 3 to expand Christian belief.

OK, so after your prayer, I, as an audience member, come up to you and ask: Sir, what must I do to be saved? What would your answer be?

[Sparko]

OK, so after your prayer, I, as an audience member, come up to you and ask: Sir, what must I do to be saved? What would your answer be?

well if you are a TBN preacher, like Benny Hinn or Paul Crouch, you might say "Plant a seed to grow God's Kingdom and you will receive this genuine vial of Holy Anointing Oil and a free Prayer Matt"

[Thersites]

Saved from what?

[Cow Poke]

Drawing on my RCC education, I'd recite the Lord's prayer. And if pressed resort to John 3 to expand Christian belief.

You forgot the sarcasm tags.

[Scrawly]

Saved from what?

The wrath of God.

[Thersites]

The wrath of God.

Why do we need to be saved from God's wrath?

[Scrawly]

Why do we need to be saved from God's wrath?

Because His justice will be executed upon sin, and if we don't accept Christ's cross-work, we will suffer the justice and wrath of God in hell for our sins.

[Thersites]

Because His justice will be executed upon sin, and if we don't accept Christ's cross-work, we will suffer the justice and wrath of God in hell for our sins.

What is a sin?

[Scrawly]

What is a sin?

I think it is helpful to define sin from the viewpoint of not so much what we do (or don't do), but rather what we are. Of course the Bible's view of sin includes the high-handed sins where evil approaches full volitional awareness, however, the Bible also describes simply the way we are - the perverse ways we think, react, want, remember, the desires we pursue, and habit we obey like second nature. In other words, much of the sin we commit is invisible to the sinner because it is simply the way the we operate. Once we see sin for what it really is - impure motives, evil intentions of our hearts that affect the root of our being, then we will recognize that sin is a problem that affects us every moment of our lives because it is our nature.

[Catholicity]

it looks like the thing we catholics need to fear more is the wrath of scrawly

[Scrawly]

it looks like the thing we catholics need to fear more is the wrath of scrawly

My wrath? Nah, maybe my OP's though.