WOF 361: What's Our Church's Growth Strategy?

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Friends, in many parts of the world the Catholic Church is shrinking. Parishes are closing or merging, pastors are devising strategies of consolidation. But for the Church to flourish, we can’t just manage decline. We need strategies for growth. That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “The Word on Fire Show.”

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0:00.0	Before you can get through to someone about the Lord Jesus Christ, the first step is,
0:05.9	well, do they trust you?
0:07.3	Do you see like a nice, happy, inviting sort of person?
0:13.7	If not, they're not going to listen to you, even if you've got the best arguments in
0:17.4	the world, you know?
0:25.7	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Fott, the host and the senior publishing
0:30.8	director at Word on Fire.
0:32.9	The Catholic Church, in many parts of the Western world, is shrinking.
0:37.3	Parishes are closing or being merged.
0:39.7	Dioceses are devising strategies of consolidation, but for the church to flourish, we need not
0:46.6	just strategies for consolidation, but strategies for growth.
0:51.0	How do we grow our parishes and dioceses?
0:53.8	What we'll be discussing today with one of the churches greatest evangelists, Bishop
0:58.0	Robert Barron.
0:59.0	Bishop, good to be with you.
1:00.8	Hey, Brandon. Always good to see you. Good to talk to you.
1:04.3	You've had a few months now to settle into your new diocese of Winona Rochester.
1:09.0	Give us an update on how things are going there.
1:11.7	Have you settled down into your routines and your tasks?
1:14.2	How's it going?
1:15.2	Yeah, it's going well.
1:16.9	I'm kind of shuddling back and forth between Rochester and Winona.
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