Cardinal Dolan's 7-Point Evangelization Plan
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan offered a “creative strategy of evangelization” of which there are seven main planks.
First, we must work to keep the quest for God alive by always remembering that even those who boast of their secularism have an innate longing for the divine.
First, we must work to keep the quest for God alive by always remembering that even those who boast of their secularism have an innate longing for the divine.
Second, “Be not afraid.” We should be confident in our message, which comes from Jesus Christ, but without giving way to triumphalism, which is the belief that our work is done and we have triumphed.
Third, we need to know that the new evangelization is not about presenting a doctrine or belief-system, but a Person, whose name is Jesus. The invitation which is implicit in the New Evangelization “is not to a doctrine but to know, love, and serve — not a something, but a Someone,” Dolan said.
Fourth, because Jesus is the Truth, evangelization is linked to catechesis.
Fifth, we need to be joyful evangelizers. “The New Evangelization is accomplished with a smile, not a frown!” he said.
Sixth, the New Evangelization is about love.
Lastly, the new Evangelization is about martyrdom. All Christians are called to be ready to suffer and die for Jesus. “It was Pope Paul VI who noted wisely that people today learn more from ‘witness than from words,’ and the supreme witness is martyrdom.