Help. I am dating a non practicing Catholic

Dating a non practicing Catholic. I have shared the gospel with her, but also wanting to do a devotional that might help communicate the gospel as well. Something that is Gospel centered and would through the daily devotional present Christ and the Gospel in various ways. 


Sure. Here are some ideas...

Option 1 - Gospel like devotional
Maybe a bit of this every day with Bibles open?

https://www.amazon.com/What-Gospel-9Marks-Greg-Gilbert/dp/1433515008/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f3013726-fc64-44f7-85dc-caa91eba0ce5

* Disclaimer. 9Marks went woke in 2016 so avoid them in general.


I can also recommend one of 4 or 5 devotionals at livingwaters.com store. They always have a gospel central focus in their material. 😀🌟


Option 2 - A study instead
A verse by verse reading of John or Ephesians is a great way to share the Gospel in a Catholic framework. They've never understood the concepts of born again and salvation by grace through faith.

And John’s gospel is a great book for a non believer to begin to examine, I think it is good because I think often people who are not believers listen to others and hear and will inherently understand that this is what that person thinks but “I want to see it myself” - and so even just staying right in John 1 for weeks and even just John 1:1 multiple times, showing how this text literally states that Jesus is God, is a very good way to get the unbeliever to begin to see what it says for themselves versus a devotional no matter how well written

You can go through this fantastic John series one per day and finish in early July. There's 191 sermons in this which you can supplement to your daily reading in John.

I absolutely loved it. 


Option 3 - Other devotionals
There are 4 free here.
https://www.gty.org/library/devotionals
The Daily Bible is good since most catholics do not read the Bible. It goes through Scripture in a year. So whatever you did b4 this will be a good next step and can help you educate as you go through it.

Plus...You can look up helps to faq as you go along via studybible.org app and click the verse link which opens to  a resources button 👍🌟

This is the gospel you can share
NeedGod.com again with her since it is in video form and gets you thinking.

Here are resources for answering Catholics questions and other things you will likely encounter but can address. The goal would be for her to get saved and into the Christian church you go to. Fortunately as a man she needs to follow your spiritual leadership. 
http://longertweets.blogspot.com/2022/04/curious.html

I would also recommend you go through and glean from this on unequally yoked and find a fb group on unequally yoked Christians so you can prepare for loads of problems you will encounter if you marry and she remains unsaved.
http://believersanswers.blogspot.com/2023/08/unequally-yoked.html


The great news is she might actually be more open to the truth, and anything you touch on about catholicism, since she is non practicing. There is definetly hope there. 🙏


Related Resources

Essentials of Christianity

Resources for Growing Believers


The last link has loads of stuff including resources for men, husbands etc. And for any secondary issue we might disagree on the site has loads of other things very beneficial to a believer. 🙂

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