Hark
Well-Known Member
How does advice to someone not attending a church become advice to a Catholic?
If a Catholic believes they are saved by faith in Jesus Christ and that he does not believe the works of catholicism is necessary, no one can see his faith if he remains in it when part of the work of salvation by the Catholic Church is by being a member of that Catholic church.
A lot of Baptists and other denomenational christians ( not all ) would insist that if a believer believes in that way, they should leave the Catholic church in order for that person's faith to shine to his fellow Catholics in that church as well as to others outside of that Catholic church that he is saved by faith alone.
When a Protestant church engage in dead works that deny the faith in Him as being able to help us to follow Him by faith alone, then no one can see that person's faith when they are among believers in religious bondages that speaks of their will to finish by the flesh by keeping that commitment to follow Christ or to keep the seven promises of the Promise Keepers program or more.
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:...11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage....5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
If believers that live by faith in Jesus Christ and all His promises to us that He will be our Good Shepherd in helping us to follow Him, then they need Him to set them free from all religious bondages to rest in Him so that every one will see their faith that He will do it which is to His glory.
1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
My staying with my faith in Him did nothing for the Protestant churches, and so my leaving is by my faith in Him in having no fellowship with works of darkness so that my faith in Him may shine apart from that errant church.