The internet has allowed Catholics to share their faith with people they never would have even met just a few years ago.

But online life also attempts us to treat people in ways we would never have when we communicated primarily face-to-face.

That's why in today's episode, we're going to examine three problems with online Christianity and how to fix them.

So let's jump right in.

Number one, exclusively engaging Protestants. This also

applies to Protestants, who primarily or exclusively criticized Catholicism, but first, I want to

address Catholics on this point. Back in March, Andrew Voight wrote an article at Gospel Coalition

called Roman Catholic Apologetics is surging online. Intended audience, Protestants. He writes,

Where Protestant apologetics is more focused on winning the secular world to Christ,

Roman Catholic apologetics often has a different audience in mind. They're separated brethren.

Targeting Protestants is explicitly encouraged. One writer argues, we have from baptism a mandate to evangelize, and Protestantism is one of the fields most ready for harvesting. First, Catholics should share their faith of Protestants because we are God's co-workers in sharing the gift of salvation. In the third century, St. Cyprian said, whoever is separated from the church and is joined to an adulteress

is separated from the promises of the church, nor can he who forsakes the Church of Christ attain to the

rewards of Christ. He is a stranger. He is profane. He is an enemy. He can no longer have God for his

father, who has not the church for his mother. And the Second Vatican Council said, Christ established his body, which is the church,

as the universal sacrament to salvation.

Sitting at the right hand of the father, he is continually active in the world,

that he might lead men to the church, and through it, join them to himself,

and that he might make them partakers of his glorious life by nourishing them with his own body and blood.

God never said that mere Christianity is sufficient for salvation.

It's necessary, and so I'm grateful for William Lane Craig and other Protestants who artfully defend it.

But God wants us united to Christ and his church, the church that

safeguards the doctrines we are obligated to believe and communicates the sacraments like the Eucharist,

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