The answer is an ecclesiastical one.

Good teaching, good liturgy, and kind hospitality.

Dr. Carl Truman of Grove City College, speaking at the 2025 issues, etc., making the case conference.

And incidentally, if you're looking for historical precedence, that is the way that the early church transformed

the Roman Empire.

They didn't do it by a week on Wednesday.

It took 300 years, but we're playing the long game.

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The idea of purgatory is frequently opposed by our Protestant friends, and part of what

helps people be more open to it is realizing what it actually is. It's really the final stage of something that

our Protestant friends believe in. They believe that after we have been forgiven our sins,

we're saved, that God continues to work in our lives to make us holy. And that process in

Protestant theology is referred to as sanctification. It's the process by which we grow in God's grace and we become more loving and more Christ-like.

Are most people perfectly Christ-like? Christian experience indicates they're not. However, they will be perfect in heaven. What that means is between the point of death where you're still imperfect

and the point where you're in the full glory of heaven, where you will be perfect, there must be a

purification, a final stage of sanctification accomplished by God's grace.

That's Roman Catholic apologist Jimmy Aiken.

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