{"id":124606,"date":"2025-08-14T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=124606"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:11:59","slug":"should-you-share-the-gospel-with-your-catholic-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=124606","title":{"rendered":"Should You Share the Gospel with Your Catholic Friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c381ac40-2f16-4947-8819-1cb0f718cdd6\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">It is a question that seems to arise time and again and year after year: How should Protestants relate to Roman Catholics? Are Catholics faithful brothers and sisters in the Lord? Are they misguided members of an alternative denomination? Are they followers of an entirely different faith that preaches an entirely different gospel? How should we relate to our Catholic friends and family members? And if given the opportunity to speak about what matters most, what should we tell them?<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"6301152d-4371-4bd2-9ac7-34689dab06d1\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-119bc444 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"765950e6-004f-4481-937a-8fe44bce2b2f\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-22223934 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> Tell Your Catholic Friend <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"85a3273b-06a4-40fb-b00d-cb08867fd385\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e44ade59 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"44f2390b-bbf0-462a-9ebe-83fa1e41d77e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Leonardo De Chirico<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"cb782066-221c-45d9-a904-51ced87a1c0d\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"4160fab3-92a3-403f-928a-a01655382c99\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-9e89c9a3 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"7404ef38-3a76-4b11-8aa1-89f3f1440e1e\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4fzONBH\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/should-you-share-the-gospel-with-your-catholic-friends\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4fzONBH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b96a5c00-eb29-4a93-99ef-03b2d706eb23\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2fd4311a-e37b-4149-bab5-f6980010bebc\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leonardo De Chirico lives and ministers in a unique context: He is the pastor of a Protestant church in Rome that is just outside the walls of Vatican City. He has committed his life to both pastoring a church and becoming a scholar of Roman Catholicism. Suffice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a question that seems to arise time and again and year after year: How should Protestants relate to Roman Catholics? Are Catholics faithful brothers and sisters in the Lord? Are they misguided members of an alternative denomination? Are they followers of an entirely different faith that preaches an entirely different gospel? How should we relate to our Catholic friends and family members? And if given the opportunity to speak about what matters most, what should we tell them? Tell Your Catholic Friend Leonardo De Chirico (Affiliate links) Leonardo De Chirico lives and ministers in a unique context: He is the pastor of a Protestant church in Rome that is just outside the walls of Vatican City. He has committed his life to both pastoring a church and becoming a scholar of Roman Catholicism. Suffice it to say, he understands Catholicism and has had many opportunities to engage and interact with its adherents. His new book, Tell Your Catholic Friend, is meant \u201cto help people like you who are already involved in evangelism to Catholics or wish to be involved but don\u2019t know how to do it or where to start. This book will help you in your attempt to witness to your Catholic friends. It won\u2019t provide all the answers, but hopefully it will be a helpful tool to wrestle with the joys and challenges of being ambassadors of Christ to those Catholics who live around you.\u201d That ought to tell you what he believes as a result of his studies and his\u2026See AlsoSharing the Gospel with Quasi-CatholicsAre We Together?Billy Graham and Ecumenicism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":124620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-124606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gianna-b-p6sk96vSyEc-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124621,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124606\/revisions\/124621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}