Some questions on talking with Catholics about Jesus

  • Mark Gilbert
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  • 17 November 2015

If one person asks a question aloud, then usually there are a lot more people wondering the same but without a chance to ask! Hear are my answers to some great questions a student at a theological college asked me about talking with Catholics about Jesus.

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Planning growth group content for the year

  • Richard Sweatman
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  • 17 January 2018

Our week-by-week plan will inevitably have to change on the fly as studies run long or nights get cancelled, but the planning we do at the start of the year is indispensable.

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Reading into discipleship: Sharing words

  • Laura Denny
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  • 23 May 2018

Is writing out and sending quotations from a good book containing biblical truth considered discipleship?

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Focusing a household on God

  • Matt Schneider
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  • 17 December 2018

How to organize your family or housemates to meet together to read the Bible, pray and sing.

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Why the Catholic Church is anti-Catholic

  • Mark Gilbert
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  • 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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Calling to ministry

  • Tim Grant
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  • 3 July 2015

Regularly when I sit down with someone, they’ll use the phrase ‘called to ministry’. I don’t have a dislike of this phrase, it can be very useful—only when most people use it, it isn’t.

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Do you share the Lord’s Supper at youth group?

  • Ben Pakula
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  • 24 January 2018

I’m constantly on the lookout for helpful illustrations to help me explain the gospel to our youth. In the Lord’s Supper I have one! It’s a readily available, visible and physical symbol of Christ’s sin-bearing death.

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Beautiful love gone bad

  • Ruth Baker
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  • 22 February 2021

Shechem’s actions were driven by where his heart was. That inhibited his ability (and willingness) to listen to Dinah, to see her resistance and accept it.

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Stories of repentance

  • Tim Zulker
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  • 16 June 2014

Repentance gives us fresh stories to share about the gospel at work in our hearts Christians who have known Christ for a while sometimes struggle with their testimony. “My story is boring.” “I got saved so long ago, I can’t even remember it all.” I was saved at age five—it

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Meeting real people’s real needs

  • Christine Bransdon
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  • 10 November 2015

The Australian government has recently announced that we will receive at least 12,000 Syrian refugees into our community. With countries across the world receiving more and more refugees, I want the church body to be prepared and ready to love and care for those who will soon be joining us.

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