Section 5 Building Your Relationship With God - 17 The Holy Church And The Holy Sacraments
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Come Holy Spirit Prayer: Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

II. Non-Christians

Question: How do we convert people of other faiths?

God’s answer:

Educate them. Share your belief.

Question: What belief do we share?

God’s answer:

The Apostle’s Creed

Question: Why did you emphasize the word share?

God’s answer:

Take it or leave it
You don’t ram it down their throats

Meaning: “ram something down somebody's throat: (informal) if someone rams their opinions or ideas down your throat, they force you to listen to them and try to make you accept them.”

Instead one should use gentle persuasion

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Question: There’s so much information out there already about Christianity...why would educating them convert people of other faiths to your faith?

God’s answer:

Cursory knowledge
Most people don’t read.
Casual conversation
You are not pulpitizing.

Meaning: Most people of other faiths will not go into depth to understand the Christian faith. Here God also describes the scene of how education takes place, it’s part of a casual and friendly conversation, so people are more receptive to hearing and understanding.

Pulpitizing means: The action or practice of preaching from or as though from a pulpit, or of dealing with from the pulpit; pulpiteering, sermonizing. 11

Question: Is there a type of person who can be converted?

God’s answer:

Same type.

Meaning: just like Christians, they are those who have not realized the truth of their faith.

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