Friends, welcome to Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us. Peace be with you. Friends, one of

the great temptations in our postmodern culture is to see Jesus as one in

intriguing offer among many on the smorgasbord of religious options. One

fascinating teacher among many. And that's typical of our time, as I say. We

like choices. We go to the grocery store and you have all these choices of

salad dressing and all these choices of breakfast cereal. So on the religious

smorgasbord there's all these different things and oh yeah there's Jesus. He's

he's good and interesting but a lot of other people are too. However at the heart

of the gospel is the claim that Jesus is everything that he is the be all and

the end all. The one for whom a totalizing decision has to be made and I'm not

going to back off of this. I know it's an unpopular view. It sounds arrogant

overbearing non-economic or etc but it's just unavoidable. Jesus himself says either

you're with me or you're against me either you gather with me or you scatter.

We can't be indifferent to him. That's the point. It's the hard point of

Christianity. I get that. I know why people struggle with it.

Either you give your whole life to Jesus or or you should reject him. You can't be

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