I was struck by this one, from the "Jesus Junk" post:<\/p>\n
\n\nWhen I was a protestant christian, all I needed to do to evanglelize was to encourage someone to pray the ‘save me’ prayer and Wham! they were saved. I guess a keychain or breath mint might lead to that. As a Catholic I am asking people to follow the way of the cross with a lot of bad catholics ( inc. me). We go together in a kind of salvation ark. It is a harder and more serious task.<\/strong> I do have a lot of icons in my home and I get plenty of questions about rosary beads and scapulars. At least they are part of my life and not put there as conversation starters.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I think I could ponder that all day. Perhaps I will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was struck by this one, from the "Jesus Junk" post: When I was a protestant christian, all I needed to do to evanglelize was to encourage someone to pray the ‘save me’ prayer and Wham! they were saved. I guess a keychain or breath mint might lead to that. As a Catholic I am…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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