How Do You Navigate the Stigmas Evangelicals Face in a Majority Roman Catholic Context?

How do you navigate the stigmas evangelicals face in a majority Roman Catholic context?

In majority Catholic contexts, being an evangelical is often associated with being part of a cult or a new religious group or movement. And so there is a kind of a social stigma that is attached to people who do not belong to the Catholic fold.

And so we have to be patient in the sense of spreading the gospel with words and deeds, with faithful presence, always willing to build bridges, always willing to show that we are not a cult. We are not an isolated, narrow-minded, insular movement, but we belong to the biblical, apostolic, orthodox Protestant church. And also we are not strange, weird people socially speaking, because we live the lives that every human being lives.

And so sharing lives, building bridges, showing that we are interested in issues of life and culture and sports and the city, and also serving in the ways that we can the city as such, are always to indicate the fact that we're not a sect, a cult, but we belong to the biblical church.

And it may take time, because the stigmas are deeply entrenched in majority Catholic cultures. But eventually the Lord will use this patience to create an atmosphere of respectability, and opening up ways for the gospel to be witnessed to.

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