• Evangelization (20:22)

    Evangelization is the task of proclaiming the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ in such a way that people are drawn into a relationship with him. Having said that, it would be wrong to think of this proclamation as if it were another ‘task’ or ‘ministry’ within the Church. Evangelization is the Church’s response to the Great Commission where Jesus tells his followers to “Go and make disciples” and as such, it is the responsibility of the whole Church. Pope Paul VI taught that evangelization is the “Church’s deepest identity” and that “the Church exists to evangelize”. Therefore, rather than valuing evangelization as something the Church does, it needs to become part of our methodology and in that way affect everything we do.
    Since there is a tendency for evangelization to get overshadowed by tasks such as catechesis, we need to be intentional about spending a disproportionate amount of our time, energy, and resources in the work of evangelization. If this is not a conscious effort on our part the Church’s most important task of making, forming, equipping, and sending disciples will get drowned out by everything else that clamours for our time, resources, and attention.

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