How the Catholic Church Can Double in 5 Years
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
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🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Imagine how much the Catholic Church would grow if each of us shared the Gospel with another person. Today, Jeff encourages us to embrace the challenge of evangelization and offers specific steps to share the Gospel in an engaging way. You don’t have to be an expert in theology to share the Gospel. Christ can use you in marvelous ways if you simply give him the chance.
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_It is our experience with the Lord that leads to evangelization, do not fear talking to people. _
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show episode 171. How can the Catholic Church double in five years? |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:16.4 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff Kaven show. |
| 0:28.0 | And I want to welcome you to the show once again. |
| 0:31.0 | Here I am deep in the woods of Minnesota once again. Here I am deep in the woods of Minnesota once again and overlooking the lake and I'm sitting in front, I'm sitting down at my desk and in front |
| 0:40.9 | of me are one, two, three, four, five Bibles and a catechism. |
| 0:46.5 | And I'm telling you what, I am just, I'm feasting on the word of God today and feasting on the teachings of the church and in some ways |
| 0:56.1 | it's kind of like an embarrassment of riches you know we have so much we've been given |
| 1:01.8 | so much as Catholics. |
| 1:03.7 | And we've got Bibles galore. The great adventure Bible, right in front of me. |
| 1:07.8 | If you don't have a good Bible, get a great adventure Bible. |
| 1:10.7 | And copies of the catechism behind me. I've got the writings of the Saints and |
| 1:14.9 | writings of Pope John Paul II and and other various pop's. I got a Rosary sitting here to my right. It's just amazing, you know, what we have. |
| 1:27.0 | But in the middle of it, I'm thinking to myself, why is it that the Catholic Church doesn't grow significantly? |
| 1:35.0 | Why is it that we show up at an Easter vigil with a church of 3,800 families |
| 1:40.7 | and three people or four or five people are coming into the church |
| 1:44.2 | which we're happy for don't don't get me wrong but this certainly is not |
| 1:49.4 | the plan of church growth that I think Jesus had in mind when three or four people come in after an entire year. |
| 1:56.5 | So I want to present to you today some information that I think will help you and certainly help the church and can the Catholic |
| 2:04.8 | church double in five years? I think the church can. But it is dependent upon you and it's dependent upon me. It is not solely dependent upon the bishops |
| 2:15.9 | and the priests and the deacons and the religious. It is the common folk like you and me. |
| 2:22.1 | We're the ones that are ultimately going to make the difference and why? |
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