Marcel LeJeune on Ways To Be A Better Catholic Evangelist

"My friend is a Southern Baptist pastor and his statement about the Catholic Church floored me and it wasn't about what you are probably thinking it was. He told me a story about when he was in seminary in the 80s. One of his seminary professors was teaching a class on missiology, which is the study of Christian mission. They did an exhaustive historical study on the spread of the Gospel. Toward the end of the class, one student asked what we could do to reach the world with the Gospel. Was it a matter of greater missionary zeal? His response was, 'it isn't just missionary zeal. We will reach the world with the Gospel when the Catholic Church recaptures her mission given to her by Jesus.' In other words, the Catholic Church holds the key to reaching the world with the Good News.

"My Baptist friend agreed with his prof and has waited for Catholics to rise up. He said I was one of the few Catholics he had ever met, who was actually trying to evangelize. I promised him I am not the only one."

In a recent Catholic Missionary Disciples commentary, writer Marcel LeJeune reflected on some ways we Catholics can become better evangelists, including treating others more as people we love than as evangelization projects and asking more questions of others than they do of us.

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Catholic Missionary Disciples: 5 Ways To Be A Better Catholic Evangelist