I would like to share more of the many witness encounters that I have experienced this year, to try and encourage those that are strong and mature in the faith, to also take up the Great Commission and try and reach lost souls for the Lord Jesus Christ, because 150,000 people die EVERYDAY, that's 7000 an hour!
PART 7
Today, whilst letterboxing Christmas Tracts on a local council estate, I decided to visit the local parish priest.
I had read some days earlier that he had been the victim of a brutal mugging and robbery of personal items.
We at Ex-Catholics for Christ are always interested in the clergy and we were concerned about his physical condition.
I decided to visit him and offer a Bible tract and also my Son James’ personal tract about the soldier at Buckingham Palace.
On ringing his doorbell I noticed that a CCTV camera was recording all my details. However he opened the door after the first ring and I offered him the first tract with the offer of a free KJV Bible. He took it rather grudgingly without a word of thanks. I might as well have been offering him a dead cat or a half eaten pizza! He clearly wasn’t interested.
“How are you”, I asked? “I would like to leave you these to look at and on the back of James’ tract you will see that I am from Ex-Catholics for Christ…if you’re interested please check out our website or I can tell you more now!”
He froze at this admission and quickly thrust them back at me saying with patronizing manner, “No thanks, I don’t want them and I would suggest you return to the one true church.”
And what would that be I asked politely. By now he was becoming very rude and refused to discuss the matter as I tried to carry on the conversation. Then he slowly shut the door in my face. But I had expected such a rude dismissal. His expression had gone from distaste to fear to impatience and with that our brief encounter was over. How sad I thought that he refused the offer of a Bible or the chance to tell me why I should quickly return to his church.
You know it has been said that the Roman Catholic Church is a cult and with this rebuttal to my offer and enquiry about his physical and spiritual health, I rather agree. And of course I was a member of such an iniquitous organization for over 25 years.
Yet Praise the Lord I saw the light before it was too late for me.
So do please pray for this young priest (30yrs old) that he leaves the church and that the doubts that I had about Rome will cause him to question such a false organization as well. Maybe then he will re-examine his future and leave the priesthood – repent and become Born Again.
If not then he, with his church, will smoulder forever in the lake of fire.
