This is a good point. However, I must tell you I do some sort of evangelizing. Perhaps I am doing it incorrectly, but there is such uniform hostility to the Catholic Church, that I always encounter a rather ugly vehemance, even from fellow Christians. I have often listened patiently to an evangelical, and with reverence, but I have not found, and this is true even amongst Catholics, patience for the ancient faith as it actually is. Lapsed Catholics are impatient with no married priests, no women priests, no divorce, priest scandals (which disturb, rightly, one and all) and protestants of the mainstream order thing Catholics are troglodytes while Evangelicals don't "get" the Eucharist or our relationship with Mary, but, to my experience, are not as patient in kind as Catholics might be to them. And this is borne out even within FR.
Perhaps the church needs to conduct official classes in effective Evangelization. I don't think it is enough to say "just talk about your faith" there has to be an effective strategy to employ. For modern man, marketing savvy has to be employed I suspect. V's wife.
"Perhaps the church needs to conduct official classes in effective Evangelization. I don't think it is enough to say "just talk about your faith" there has to be an effective strategy to employ. For modern man, marketing savvy has to be employed I suspect."
Heck, I'd be happy if we just evangelized, period. And it doesn't necessarily have to be the banging on doors sort.
A Marian procession works. Standing outside an IVF clinic with Icons and Candles works. Writing letters to the editor works. Simply bearing witness works wonders.
Everyone is different and what is an effective evangelization tool for reaching out to one person will be different than for the next. I do agree that we need to have some training, but more than aything I'd simply like to see a push toward evangelization.
The great irony in my own personal case is that all the horrible things said about Catholicism is what what ultimately lead me to the church.
As if you hadn't guessed, I'm something of a contrarian thinker. When people say horrible things, it just piques my curiosity about their underlying agenda. It also makes me want to find out what the other side has to say.