Our objective in evangelizing is assisting those-who-don’t-know-God to closely examine, their underlying beliefs. To motivate them to explore “What reasons do I have for believing what I do? How do I know what I believe is valid?" Evangelization is speaking from your heart directly to the heart of your listener. As St. Peter specified - with gentleness and reverence. You are trying to win both the listener’s mind and heart. As we learned previously, the most effective way to achieve that is through genuine curiosity armed with questions.
To frame those questions so that you guide the discussion in the direction you discern the Holy Spirit wants to take it you have to have the “lay of the land.” That is what Find Your Catholic Voice attempts to provide.
Everyone has a worldview. A set of beliefs that, for a specific individual, explain what life is all about, who they are, and the most important things that human beings should spend their time doing.
Each and every one of us has a set of faith-assumptions about the nature of things: unproven answers to fundamental questions each person adopts, whether consciously or not.
Faith in some viewpoint of existence – a world view - informs everyone’s life. Whether it is “love is all you need,” or that humans are merely the result of random circumstances, or there is a creator God that we should seek to know; and so on... In short, it is not only Christians, but everyone operates from one or more personal beliefs – faith assumptions that cannot be scientifically proven.
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