Before the conversation begins, steal your resolve to fight through the awkwardness.

That resistance you feel is not coming from God.

It's coming from the other powers bent on preventing you from talking with your child about religious matters. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to every knee, shout bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization.

My name is Mike Gomer Gorman.

And I'm not joined by Dave the Body Van Vickle.

We are going to keep going with our series.

So every week on Tuesday nights, I teach a class for my adults from Brandon Bott's

wonderful book from Word on Fire, return How to Draw Your Child Back to Church.

I want to thank our fine folks over at Ascension for being such amazing and supportive

partners here in this quest to make the church more evangelistic.

Brain and Vot actually lays out literal conversation starters.

So we're going to go through this together.

And so I love this line that he has.

We want to create an atmosphere of friendly curiosity and relaxed diplomacy.

That describes my marriage. He only began after prayer and fasting for

several months and the person is in a place of trust. That's our goal. You want them to be in a place

of trust and you want to be praying and fasting for them. So if you're doing that, right,

tomorrow is Wednesday.

It was fun editing last week's talk,

and I hear all your groanings when I talked about fasting, right?

So tomorrow you're going to, this is what you're going to do.

You're going to wake up, you're going to get your cup of coffee, cup of tea, whatever.

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