What to Say and How to Say It attempts to help Catholics defend their beliefs. As someone who understands the Roman Catholic Church doctrine but has left and fully denounced its teachings, the arguments in this book don't hold up against the Word of God. If you want to defend your faith, strive to defend it using God's word and not the traditions men have created.

"That's why Jesus left us a Church, so that through it he could guide us into his truth." - This isn't the truth according to scripture. Jesus left and the Holy Spirit came unto believers to guide us. In John 14:26, Jesus explains this "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."

The author defines salvation as "the process by which we're brought into complete union with God, a process that is accomplished solely by the grace of Jesus Christ." Even Webster's dictionary defines this more correctly than the author. Salvation is not a process, that's sanctification. Salvation was accomplished on the cross by Jesus Christ.

The author states that the Catechism of the Catholic church "asserts that everyone who is saved is saved by Christ through the Church." Excuse me?!? No. God's children were and are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, not the church.

Then the author continues by saying that "Baptism is the ordinary way by which God saves his people." If God saves people through baptism and the church and the death and resurrection of Christ...how is something definitive? All of these give options and many ways to salvation. Salvation is through Jesus Christ only. John 14:6 has Jesus telling us that through HIM we get to the Father. Not baptism. Not Rome. Not anyone other than Jesus, the Son.

There are so many other issues in this book. It's saddening that this book would teach anyone that they must answer they just hope they will be saved. I promise you it's amazing to be confident saying that you know you're saved. The book continues to put Protestants against Catholics, which is fine...that's why the Reformation happened. But the ideas the author has about Protestants aren't full truths. The descriptions of differences in worship and what a worship service purpose is is incorrect. Protestants believe that Sundays are to worship the Lord, as scripture tells us.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, but if you're a Catholic seeking to argue with a Bible-believing Protestant, this book and the tactics described won't help you.


*I received a digital copy of the book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I received a free copy of, What to Say and How to Say It, Volume III, by Brandon Vogt, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I do not always know what to say when questioned about my faith and religious views. This is a great book, with great answers to those questions.