Take a Bible account that you like a lot. Learn all you can about it; doing some research to learn all aspects of it. Practice presenting it (but not in front of a mirror because you don’t want to scare yourself) until you get it down and feel comfortable with it. Now that you are ready our Lord will give you the opportunity to put your new found talents to work in His Vineyard.

So, let’s say you are with someone, a skeptical or unbelieving soul, and you can feel the Holy Spirit encouraging you to evangelize. Now you are prepared to give Jesus your all.

If you prepare yourself for this, God will certainly use your new ability to the fullest.

Here is another way to use your new talent. Have a few Christian friends do the same thing. When they are prepared ask some other of your friends – ones who say they believe in God, but you know they are far from being believers in Jesus Christ, to come over one evening because you want to talk with them about their belief in Jesus. Each one of the believers could invite one or two skeptics. Of course you could talk about other things as well. You don’t want people feeling you are “ganging up” on them.

But when the Holy Spirit encourages one of you to bring up the topic then that’s the time to evangelize. Perhaps only one of the believers will get the opportunity to tell their Biblical account or perhaps all of you. Just remember to trust in Jesus, that regardless of how things seem to be going,  He will make the best of it and you will be doing your Christian duty to spread the Good News to the ends of the earth.

Take a Bible account that you like a lot. Learn all you can about it; doing some research to learn all aspects of it. Practice presenting it (but not in front of a mirror because you don’t want to scare yourself) until you get it down and feel comfortable with it. Now that you are ready our Lord will give you the opportunity to put your new found talents to work in His Vineyard.

So, let’s say you are with someone, a skeptical or unbelieving soul, and you can feel the Holy Spirit encouraging you to evangelize. Now you are prepared to give Jesus your all.

If you prepare yourself for this, God will certainly use your new ability to the fullest.

Here is another way to use your new talent. Have a few Christian friends do the same thing. When they are prepared ask some other of your friends – ones who say they believe in God, but you know they are far from being believers in Jesus Christ, to come over one evening because you want to talk with them about their belief in Jesus. Each one of the believers could invite one or two skeptics. Of course you could talk about other things as well. You don’t want people feeling you are “ganging up” on them.

But when the Holy Spirit encourages one of you to bring up the topic then that’s the time to evangelize. Perhaps only one of the believers will get the opportunity to tell their Biblical account or perhaps all of you. Just remember to trust in Jesus, that regardless of how things seem to be going,  He will make the best of it and you will be doing your Christian duty to spread the Good News to the ends of the earth.

Oppositeman, your post sounds like how pentacostals/charismatics talk (and I should know thats how I grew up)

Serious question Oppositeman, are you a Roman Catholic?

Luke

1 Peter 3:15 "But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you." (DR)

If someone asks, or if there is an opening in a conversation that allows us to present the Catholic position on an issue then it should be taken.  We must know our faith well so we can explain it.  

Faith is a gift from God and he will inspire those who want to know the truth to seek it out, I don't think we need "witness" to others beyond how we live our daily lives.

Preach the gospel always, and if necessary use words.  This phrase it attributed to St. Francis.  Even if he did not say it, it is still wise counsel.

Marsha

The Apostles would never have left Jerusalem if they would have taken your advice

The holy Apostles were confirmed by Our Lord Jesus Christ and were filled with the Presence of God the Holy Ghost. They were commanded to instruct the nations in the true Faith. Your Catholic Faith, as well as anyone else's, is a product of the faithfulness of the Apostles and THEIR SUCCESSORS to do that which Our Lord commanded.

Show me a place in the Holy Scriptures, even one, where an individual who was not an Apostle (i.e. a Bishop), a deacon or a priest was commanded to go out and teach OR where they actually did so fruitfully. Apollos was a layman, and he needed to be instructed in the way of God "more perfectly" because his "witnessing" was obviously not effective.

The Apostles left Jerusalem under Divine unction. They did not get together and decide upon some clever method of "choosing a passage of Scripture", which they would not have been able to do anyway, since they had but the Old Testament and it was contained in scrolls as large as a small child's body. Not very easy to just grab and sit and read.

If you want to do things the way the Apostles did them, why not start by being so full of the influence of God the Holy Ghost that your life and actions gather a crowd of convinced unbelievers. Then, when they are all assembled around you, begin to preach, NOT to dialogue, and make unqualified, strident claims about how your listeners are not only lost in their sin, but are personally responsible for the suffering and death of the Son of God, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity.

Let's review:

1. Have a specific command from Our Lord to preach and confirm disciples

2. Be fully convinced that you intend to bring your listeners, if any, into the One True Church and not just into some protestant "persona relationship" with the protestant false jesus

3. Preach a message of condemnation of sin and the judgment of all those who are thus guilty before God of not only their sin but of their continual rejection of the Divine Redeemer

Yes, it sounds like you're an Apostle, all right...

...or you're just trying to circuмvent God's established Order, namely, the hierarchy of Holy Church, because you're frustrated at how the protestant heretics seem to make more 'converts' than Catholics do.

Please, oppositeman and others, bear in mind that protestant rhetorical tactics won't work to make converts to the True Faith. Your job is to point TO the answers, which Holy Church teaches, not to become a Lone Ranger unauthorized 'teacher' yourself.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.