Chapter 11: Start with Why
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If we are going to cast a vision for our parish, we have to start with the “why”. Tim notes that the initial battle your parish will have to fight will be to communicate and drive home answers to questions like “What is the purpose of the Church?”, “Why does our parish exist?”, and “Why am I Catholic?”. If the people in your pews can answer this, you have cast the vision that will launch you into renewal.
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Chapter 11: Introduction
In this section, Julianne unpacks the first stage in Jesus’s process of making missionary disciples. Using Jesus’s request (or encouragement) to His Apostles to “come and see,” Julianne walks through some strategies for how you as a parish can do the work of “pre-evangelization.”
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Chapter 11: The Family Paradigm
Father makes note of the family paradigm as an example for how to think of serving the poor. We are brothers and sisters with the same Father. We are one Body in Christ.
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Chapter 12: #2: Make Time
As a parish staff member or volunteer, do you find that evangelization is becoming something that you do “for your job” or in your ministry but not in your daily life? Chris challenges us to become living breathing evangelists with ease in our everyday lives.
