This post is a few highlights from a blog post by Frank Mercadante. Frank is the director of Cultivation Ministries which equips teen leaders and youth ministers to serve the needs of our young church. I've posted just part of his recent blog post here entitled Evangelization Doesn't Work Anymore, I highly recommend reading the whole post (it's short).
"...if we hope to reach the present generation, we, too, must
“immanuelize” by being God’s presence to our world...
Immauelization means that as individuals and as parish communities,
we’ve got to start looking a lot more like Jesus. Propositional or
universal statements of truth do not persuade postmoderns. The title
“body of Christ” or “the one, holy, catholic church’ means nothing if
their lived experience of us says something very different. We can’t
just talk about God’s love—we’ve got to be God’s love. We have to trade
in our tendencies towards blasting out disembodied truths to incarnating
the presence and message of Jesus.
It’s not about being perfect, it’s about being real. Immauelization means we speak with our presence... (Read the rest of the post here).
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