Episode 58

057: Understanding conversion and the power of the Gospel

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January 12th, 2024

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Andre Regnier, co-founder of Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO), discusses the power of the Gospel and the importance of making a personal decision in the process of conversion.

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""The conditions of the society in which we live oblige all of us therefore to revise methods, to seek by every means to study how we can bring the Christian message to modern man. For it is only in the Christian message that modern man can find the answer to his questions and the energy for his commitment of human solidarity.""
This fidelity both to a message whose servants we are and to the people to whom we must transmit it living and intact is the central axis of evangelization. It poses three burning questions, which the 1974 Synod kept constantly in mind:

  • In our day, what has happened to that hidden energy of the Good News, which is able to have a powerful effect on man's conscience?
  • To what extent and in what way is that evangelical force capable of really transforming the people of this century?
  • What methods should be followed in order that the power of the Gospel may have its effect? Pope St Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, 3 --- Conversion means accepting, by a personal decision, the saving sovereignty of Christ and becoming his disciple. Pope St John Paul II, Mission of the Redeemer, 46 --- ..today Christ is asking you the same question which he asked the Apostles: “Who do you say that I am?” Respond to him with generosity and courage, as befits young hearts like your own.

Say to him: “Jesus, I know that you are the Son of God, who have given your life for me. I want to follow you faithfully and to be led by your word. You know me and you love me. I place my trust in you and I put my whole life into your hands. I want you to be the power that strengthens me and the joy which never leaves me”.

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