Seminar Notes #5 - SCRIPTURAL EVANGELISM
See also Book, "Scriptural Evangelism
The center of the Christian Life is Jesus Christ. "For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified" - Heb 10:14; "the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all" - Isa 53:6
Draw circle and write Jesus Christ in the middle
The center of a "religious-but-lost" is someone whom they call "Jesus Christ"
In his book The Question Box, Priest Bertrand Conway said to believe that our sins were transferred to our Lord dying on the Cross is "absurd and blasphemous"
The JW book, Let God be True says, "The ransom for all does not guarantee eternal life"
A Mormon publication says, "Christ's atonement to do with the sins of Adam"
Ellen G White, in The Great Controversy (Seventh Day Adventist) said, "We dissent from the view of atonement made on cross."
Mary Baker Eddy in her Christian Science book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, said "No sacrifice is sufficient to pay the debt of sin"
Draw another circle and write "Jesus Christ" in the middle
The outward manifestations of Christian are: love, joy & peace, knowledge, holiness
At the perimeter of first circle put L, J&P, K and H
The outward manifestations of the Catholic are : Mary, Mass, Priest, Purgatory
At the perimeter of second circle put M, M, P and P
INCORRECT EVANGELISM starts at the Christian PERIMETER
Not how holy, knowledgeable, joyful or loving you are
INCORRECT EVANGELISM goes only to the Catholic PERIMETER
"You Catholics worship Mary"
"You re-crucify Christ every week"
"Your trouble is that you call your priest `Father'"
"Purgatory is unfair to poor people"
CORRECT EVANGELISM goes from CENTER TO CENTER - Demonstrating the difference between the Perfect Savior and salvation by sacraments and works.
YET THE MESSAGE PASSES THROUGH THE PERIMETER, SO LIVE HOLY LIVES, HAVE A LOVE FOR THE LOST, KNOW CATHOLIC DOCTRINE AND THE WORD OF GOD; MANIFEST HIS JOY IN YOUR LIFE.