If you’ve spent even a second as a devout Catholic, you’ve probably heard of and been instantly repulsed by the feel-good gospel. Hating the feel-good gospel is something both believers and non-believers can get behind. For me, the only thing I hate more than the feel-good gospel is the never ending witch hunt in snuffing it out. It seems like every time there’s a Steubenville or FOCUS conference, someone on…
I’m preparing for a middle school session next Sunday that I will be out of town for. I’m handing it off to a very capable Core Team member, but I found myself looking for videos to give her to show the kids. After a few videos, I was reminded why I rarely show videos at youth group at all. Here are a few reasons why videos are usually a bad…
Last night, someone posted this on Twitter. Naturally, Catholic Twitter jumped on it. a lot of the replies were charitable and one even led to a DM conversation about the scandals. But some of the responses committed one of the most common sins well-meaning Catholics commit in evangelization. The wrong way to approach something like this tweet is to start dropping Catholic buzzwords. I saw several tweets along the lines…
Sometimes I trip myself up. I get this feeling like I’m not “spiritual enough” to speak to people. As if “feeling spiritual” is a prerequisite for preaching the Gospel. We all have excuses for not evangelizing, just some seem holier or disguise themselves as humility. Sometimes we’re too tired to talk to that person or too introverted or we’d feel like we’re imposing. We’re not smart enough or holy enough…
