#353 How to Evangelize Using Social Media - Fr. Simon Esshaki

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🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The call to evangelize has only grown more important, though it may look different today than it did in 100 A.D. Fr. Simon Esshaki talks about the call from Jesus Christ for all Christians to go out into the world, sharing the good news.

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0:00.0	Internet evangelizing the Apostolic Way, Father Simon Isaki is next.
0:09.2	Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living understanding and defending
0:13.7	your Catholic faith. Today, we talk a little bit about sharing your Catholic faith, and you know,
0:18.3	the church has had to evolve over the centuries as society changed in order to present the truth
0:26.1	about Jesus Christ in new ways, you know, with things like the invention of the printing press or
0:31.6	the age of discovery. What do you do when the world is changing like this every five minutes?
0:37.1	How do you get out there and evangelize in a way that doesn't let go of that which is sacred,
0:43.2	but responds to this constant pace of change. You know, you wake up one day and the thing that was
0:49.1	the big thing ain't the big thing anymore. You know, I remember my space. I am one of the people
0:54.7	who remembers my space. And then we just go through all the social media. How do you keep up?
1:00.4	Well, we asked a priest who has 470,000 followers on TikTok. Father Simon Isaki is here to tell
1:09.0	us about how he did it, why he does it, and what he thinks is the Apostolic Way. That is the way
1:15.0	that really is faithful to the Apostles to do social media evangelizing. Here's Father Simon Isaki.
1:28.8	Father Simon Isaki, thanks so much for being here with us. Thanks for having me, Si.
1:32.8	All right, I'm going to name some things, and I want you to tell me what the relationship
1:35.5	between these things is. Can we start that way? Let's do it. Okay. Burger King chicken sandwich,
1:41.0	hot chicken from Kentucky Fried Chicken, 3D Doritos, and banana cream pie ice cream from 711.
1:51.7	You did your research. I did well. I'm happy to do that kind of research. So those are my food reviews
1:58.8	on TikTok, just a few of them. Yeah, you do food reviews on TikTok. And one of the nice things
2:04.9	about the food reviews, well, first of all, I love that you're reviewing the real high quality stuff,
2:10.0	banana cream pie ice cream from 711. But you say the blessing before you try the food,
2:17.3	and then you give us your honest evaluation of the food. And I'm going to get the Burger King chicken
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