Catholic Evangelization: A Target Without a Bullseye?
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ministry programs and apologetics are great, but there’s one area that parishes can often neglect: evangelization.
Christians have a mandate to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” But so many Catholics seem to opt out of this and prefer to build programs that service the inner circle instead of welcoming in the larger community. We’re hitting the target, but not the bullseye.
Jeff references Scripture passages and the seven parts of the kerygma to inspire outreach and evangelization in your parish and greater community.
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“We have a mandate to go and make disciples … but do the people in our parish know what the RCIA program even is?”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Kavans show, episode one twenty three, |
| 0:04.7 | Catholic evangelization, a target without a bullseye. |
| 0:09.3 | Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:18.0 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff |
| 0:24.8 | Caven show. Hey, thanks for joining me. We're talking this week about |
| 0:30.2 | evangelization on the show and I'm glad that you could join me and this is |
| 0:34.8 | going to be a little bit different this week. I'm going to be sharing some |
| 0:38.0 | things with you that I have been thinking long and hard about and making some |
| 0:42.3 | observations not only about Catholic |
| 0:46.0 | evangelization in general but even my own walk with the Lord and and |
| 0:49.7 | asking myself the serious questions am I really really a disciple of the Lord |
| 0:55.1 | who's out there sharing Christ with people or am I more into just studying the faith? |
| 1:00.8 | And so we're going to talk about Catholic evangelization kind of the state of the big time and that is that we seem to have a target without a bullseye. |
| 1:16.0 | And I'm going to get into that a little bit later and I think it's going to make sense to you and it's really a call to a new level of evangelization and involvement in sharing |
| 1:26.0 | Christ with other people. I think it's time and you know we're losing people in |
| 1:32.1 | the church today but I'm going to make some observations about how we can |
| 1:36.8 | Stop this and and bring more people to Christ and all the beautiful gifts that await them in the Catholic Church. |
| 1:44.8 | Got a couple of emails, got a lot, a lot of feedback from one particular show, |
| 1:51.1 | episode 119, Parents write in your Bible got a lot a lot and |
| 1:56.7 | Tom from the UK writes and he says I have three young kids and three God children I bought six TGA that's great adventure Bibles from Amazon |
| 2:08.7 | one for each and six notebooks the plan is for each child to have a day of the week on which I read and mark |
| 2:16.5 | a few chapters of their Bible and write a short dated note to them in the notebook, perhaps a prayer or just a chat about what's going on in our lives. |
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