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Share your personal testimony of your life without Christ verses your new life in Christ.
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Try to establish agreement on what is truth (John 14:6; 17:17; Col. 1:5).
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Show that the scriptures are sufficient for understanding how to be saved (2 Tim. 3:15).
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Agree to put tradition in its proper position of authority (Mark 7:7-8, 13).
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Discuss the total depravity of man and his desperate need of a Savior.
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Agree on what the Gospel is and its power (Romans 1:16; 1 Cor. 15:1-4; Eph. 2:1-10).
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Discuss the consequences of someone teaching a different gospel or refusing to believe the true Gospel (Gal. 1:6- 9; 2 Cor. 4:3).
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Show that no man or pope is infallible. Peter (who Catholics appointed as their first pope) admitted he was wrong and submitted, not to another man, but to the truth of the Gospel (Gal. 2:11-14).
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Explain the need to repent from trusting in things that cannot save them such as the sacraments, the sacrifice of the mass, purgatory, indulgences, other mediators, and infant baptism. These nullify the power of the Gospel and oppose the finished work of Christ. Anyone believing in a different gospel believes in vain. A false gospel produces only false hope (1 Cor. 15:2).
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Stay focused on the Gospel. Try not to go off on tangents unrelated to salvation.
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Provide literature, tracts or key Scriptures with a commitment to pray and meet again.
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Remember a repentant sinner must understand and believe the Gospel to be saved. The only way to heaven is through Christ, and the only way to come to Christ is God's way - with empty hands of faith.
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