Mark Gilbert

Mark Gilbert works for Certainty4Eternity, an organisation established to help churches share the gospel with people from a Roman Catholic background. Mark grew up as a committed Roman Catholic, but despite this did not hear the gospel until he started university. He trained as a doctor before retraining as a minister, and has served in Anglican churches in Sydney since 2000. He currently works as an evangelist on the Northern Beaches. Mark has published a number of resources with Matthias Media to help people share the good news about Jesus with people from a Roman Catholic background including The God Who Saves, The Road Once Travelled and Stepping Out in Faith.

The ultimate experience

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 13 February 2019

How do we experience God as Christians?

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Why the Catholic Church is anti-Catholic

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 23 July 2018

The Roman Catholic Church considers itself to be the centre of, not just Christian unity, but world unity. That after all is what the word Catholic means: according to the whole. Yet many things the Catholic Church does result in great division.

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Is there such a thing as a nominal Catholic?

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 13 June 2018

People from a Catholic or Orthodox background do not think about people being nominal; it is a very Protestant way of thinking.

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Using music to cross religious barriers

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 30 October 2017

It is worth thinking through how music functions in our services to engage people so that they can come to know Jesus through his word.

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Is the Catholic Church a Christian church?

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 17 August 2017

Sometimes, as Evangelicals approaching Roman Catholicism, we look at various parts of Catholicism without considering how they relate to the whole Catholic system.

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Do Catholics and Protestants believe in the same Trinity?

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 22 May 2017

When Protestants describe the Roman Catholic Church as ‘Trinitarian’ and ‘creedal’, it can obscure the differences between Catholics and Protestants, confuse Christians, and inhibit evangelism of Catholics.

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Do Catholics and Protestants believe in the same God?

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 20 February 2017

This is different to the question “Can Catholics be Christian?”, to which the answer would be a hearty yes! This question looks at the fundamental teachings of the Catholic Church and compares them to those of Protestants and asks if we are talking about the same thing.

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Three practical ways to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 2 January 2017

We have many reasons to celebrate the wisdom and the sacrifices of the Reformers and those who followed. But what is the best way to celebrate? To give gifts of course!

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Is the Pope Catholic?

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 17 August 2016

Mark Gilbert explains why unity is such a big deal for Roman Catholics and why that helps us evangelize them.

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Why the Reformation is definitely not over

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 3 August 2016

It seems that the Pope is soon likely to declare the Reformation, which started with Martin Luther, is over. But Mark Gilbert explains why the Reformation can never truly be over.

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