Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

In today's episode, I want to piggyback a little bit on a subject that I raised in the

previous episode.

So yesterday I talked about how kindness is a necessary condition for evangelization,

but it's not sufficient.

Kindness, charity, holiness, works of mercy, we absolutely need to be doing these things.

If we're not doing them and all we have are arguments, all we have are persuasive

defenses of Catholicism, it's not going to be, it's not going to reach people.

Same policies in first Corinthians 13.

I have all knowledge, but if I'm puffed up, if I do not have love, and I'm like a

resounding gong, not so kindness is necessary, but it is not sufficient.

In some particular cases, in some cases, there will be interactions where the holiness

of an individual will bring about radical conversion in others, especially for people

who need more of a spiritual kick in the pants, if you will.

But there are many people, and that's what I want to talk about today.

Many people who are not Catholic or they are no longer Catholic in the sense that they

no longer practice their faith, they no longer identify as being Catholic because they disagree

with the teachings of the church.

So kindness and relational evangelism, if you will, as I said, that is necessary.

Not always going to be sufficient.

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