2 How to preach gospel and nourish the people

How to preach gospel and nourish the people

with Catholic background

Catholics

History

Catholics is one of the several denominations of the main Christian faith and has the largest followers among all the Christian sub-faiths of Lutheranism, Protestantism etc.

Characteristics

a．Catholic people are very loyal to their family tradition. Even they don’t have any practice, they are still very stubborn with their tradition.

b. They all consider they were baptized even they were just sprinkled a few drops of water, even little babes need this kind of observance

c. Most of them are not saved for they cannot assure Jesus died on the cross on behalf of them for a redemption.

d. Very few Catholic read Bible. They are not supposed to read the Bible because the priests told them not to do so in order that they might not be get astray.

e. They are very sensitive about anyone attacking Catholic even with bunch of scandals exposed throughout the years. Better not to touch those touchy points. They will get mad easily with those issues.

They need complete gospel just like most unbelievers need

Date of Pew Research of Catholics Decreasing Trend in Brazil recent years:

Reasons for Leaving Catholicism

Main reasons for leaving Catholicism:

Spiritual needs not being met
Unhappy with teachings about the Bible
Dissatisfied with atmosphere at worship services

Direction of how to gain these kind of leaving Catholics:

First of all, meeting their spiritual need with abundant life supply
Serving them with the rich truth of the Bible of Recovery version
Guiding them into our group meeting to enjoy the Lord.

How to contact the people in Catholic background

The approach to contacting the Catholics：

Contacting the Catholics by peaching gospel.

Knocking the door from house to house.
Contacting them through brothers and sisters in the church.

Contacting the Catholic students by entering into the universities.
Contacting them by broadcast, gospel booklet and audio.
Contacting them through social media, like WeChat, Twitter, Facebook, Line etc.

Building up an organic relationship with these Catholics.
Contacting them to know their interests, habits and spare time and making friends with them to have a connection with each other regularly. For example, we can make phone calls to them regularly and talk about what they are willing to say.
If they still accept us, then we can continue to invite them to our group meeting with human care. In the meetings, we can supply them with life which is our subjective experience of the Lord.
The Living Stream Ministry has been launched a Spanish radiobroadcasting for decades. The most popular series program is the Tree of Life which has a lot of listeners in the Spanish world.

——Walter Ortiz

Major Scriptural references:

John 5:39-40; 6:35; 11:25; 14:6, 2Cor 3:6

Some Tips for contacting Catholics

a. Contacting Catholics without mention 13, for they believe this figure unlucky.

b. For Catholics fast every Friday, we should make an appointment before Friday, if we want to invite them to enjoy love feast on Friday.

c. If you want to contact them in the Lord’s Day, telling them in advance, for they go to church every Sunday to participate in the Mass.

d. Do not misplace their so-called holy gift hastily or arbitrarily.

e. It is best not to make improper comments on their personal cleanliness if not their close friends.

f. Do not argue or doubt with Catholics about the truth and practice of the Bible or church, for example, the worship of Mary, the carved statue in Catholic Hall, the Deuterocanonical Books, etc.

g. Do not mention about any negative news or things about Catholicism.

How to continue to shepherd and nourish the opening ones

The goal of shepherding:

Assisting them to establish a real relationship between them and God
Getting out of the system and life of Catholicism and practice the church life according to the Bible, not according to the tradition and man’s teaching.
Perfecting them to be the lover of Christ and the living members of the Body of Christ.

The process of shepherding:

Calling upon the name of the Lord to experience the enjoyment of the Lord.
Accompanying them to enjoy morning revival or through the phone call, Skype, Line, Wechat or QQ, etc.
Inviting them to our home to enjoy home meeting
Writing down some nourishing words on paper or sending to them the short messages to help them practice.
Going shopping or traveling around with them
To know their needs and problems through warmly care, leading them to pray if it is convenient just at that moment.
Making an appointment with them to pray or teach them how to pray to the Lord by themselves if it is inconvenient at that time.
Inviting them to sing a song or read some scriptures to meet their needs and comfort their hearts.
Inspiring their spirit by sharing our genuine experience of the Lord.
Therefore guiding them to experience God in their daily life.
Taking them to other churches to blend and enjoy the Body life
Perfecting them to have a short sharing even unto a prophecy in the meeting.

Shepherding materials:

Timely shepherding material:

Bible 365(bilingual reading)

Serial shepherding material:

Life-study of the book of John

http://www.ministrybooks.org/books.cfm?id=2807EA

96 Bible lessons(bilingual reading)

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=300C6376E92CAC83&id=300c6376e92cac83%211224

The knowledge of life

http://www.ministrybooks.org/SearchMinBooksDtl.cfm?id=2C06EE

The experience of life

http://www.ministrybooks.org/SearchMinBooksDtl.cfm?id=2808

The experience of Christ

http://www.ministrybooks.org/SearchMinBooksDtl.cfm?id=280B

New-Testament Reading One Chapter per Week (According to the principle of “giving them food at the proper time”, this book with its daily portions is designed to meet the needs of four kinds of people: 1. Gospel friends. 2. New believers. 3. Dormant saints. 4. Seeking ones.):

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=300C6376E92CAC83&id=300c6376e92cac83%211134