A one - three paragraph track thats memorable

[Ziggamafu]

What would you say to the Protestant who asks you, "how must I be saved?"

Obviously it would have to involve more than "surrender your life to God" but not something that goes into great exegetical detail on the Sacraments in the Bible...

Basically it would have to be a one to three paragraph sum of the CCC!

[b]The meaning of life:[/b] to love God and be loved by Him

[b]How: [/b]to understand Him as Infinite Being [of] Truth, Beauty, & Love and to seek that Absolute first and foremost, above and beyond all else, with a willingness to forsake anything or anyone for a greater knowledge of Him.

[b]What the Church has come to understand about this:[/b] The history and convenants of Judaism have the greatest amount of evidence that theirs is the true God, and the history and covenant of Christianity has the greatest amount of evidence that this same God took on flesh to reveal Himself more fully to us.

[b]What he revealed:[/b] a fulfilled covenant system that brings total reconcilliation between God and man.

[b]What that system is: [/b]Grace received through the Sacraments, which are given by the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Christ founded.

[b]How we can embrace that system fully:[/b] with an assent to all the teachings of the Church he founded and protects.

Have you ever seen a brief enough track that does something like this? Something brief enough to memorize for occasions when Prot. friends want a definitive answer?

[phatcatholic]

this paragraph is short and sweet:[list]"Are you saved?" asks the Fundamentalist. The Catholic should reply: "As the Bible says, I am already saved (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5–8), but I’m also being saved (1 Cor. 1:8, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12), and I have the hope that I will be saved (Rom. 5:9–10, 1 Cor. 3:12–15). Like the apostle Paul I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11–13)."
[/list]i'll try to find something that includes the role of the Church and the sacraments.....