Some people say, “Oh, I don’t have to worry about how I behave as a Christian, because that’s ‘works’. And salvation isn’t by works, so none of that matters.”Well for goodness sake, don't let those people just dangle out there!Or they say, “Oh, baptism is a work, and salvation isn’t by works, therefore baptism isn’t needed for salvation.” (Notice they don’t say that about believing, despite the fact that Jesus says believing is a work.)
They are obviously not Christians so give them the Gospel Message so they can be born again and saved.
Don't give them the heavy stuff, you know, all the traditions. Just the Gospel Message.
They won't understand the rest of the Bible until they become followers of Jesus Christ.
Except for the areas that are concerned about salvation, the rest of the Bible is like a "letter" to Christians. Can't be understood by the unsaved.
Thanks, report back to let us know if that worked if you wish to.
Oh I do, to everyone who’ll listen! :-)
Some people are so steeped in the teaching they’ve heard all their lives, that it’s a slow process of planting a question here and another one there. But if we can get them thinking about something they never heard from their preacher and never thought about, maybe they’ll start exploring the Scriptures for themselves.
Many people have never heard the gospel, only parts of it - which isn’t the gospel at all. One way to tell is by whether they react the way people in Acts reacted when the gospel was preached. The gospel preaching in the Bible worked a sifting of the hearers, and left no one in doubt of his condition.
In an online forum such as this, it’s hard to know who your audience is until/unless someone replies. But I’m willing and eager to discuss the gospel with anyone, whether publicly or privately.
So thank you for the encouragement! Are you interested in continuing the discussion? Everybody else seems to have left this thread (being more interested in bashing Catholics or Protestants, it seems) so it’s just you and me. :-)