2:55 Finding meaning and purpose in mission

5:18 Living a relationship with Jesus as a day-to-day encounter and a love story

10:00 Conversion involves the whole person

13:08 Staring down a new missionary age

18:16 Remembering where the New Evangelization began: in the heart of God

24:01 If we want to be effective, we have got to get in front of the Lord and just be with him

29:01 From belonging, to belief, to behaving

31:26 We need a kerygmatic revolution in the Church

48:27 We need to retool and reprioritize based on this place we are in at this moment in history

53:30 As a Church, we may need to again earn the right to be heard

Takeaway quote: “Too often in the Catholic Church we're trying to build the building from the 5th floor down. We gotta start from the foundation and build up.”

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Some moments of particular interest:

1:14 What exactly is an Impact List, and who goes on it?

3:45 What if people say no to my invitation?

4:45 Fighting through internal hesitation to deliver an invitation

7:36 Whether we realize it or not, our hearts were made for relationship with God

8:26 Why we should never categorize our friends as people God can’t reach

10:37 Overcoming resistance, inviting, and seeing God move

12:48 The radical power of an invitation

16:22 When do I create my Impact List? Do I invite people and then choose Alpha or Discovery?

19:48 If we haven’t built trust with someone, maybe it’s best to start with connecting over dinner

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In the course of their engaging conversation they discuss the methodologies employed by CCO missionaries in evangelizing and discipling on campus and in parishes, and how we can engage in “spiritual multiplication” and really change the world!

Some highlights from the conversation include:

0:33 Dealing with a difficult “failure” in discipleship

5:11 The key role of trust, and how modern man often needs to belong before he believes

8:37 Having a missionary heart means making room for people in your life

11:04 Amber’s personal faith journey

15:04 The life-changing power of an invitation

15:40 Spiritual multiplication: what it really is

18:55 Jesus’ model of discipleship: 1 to a few

20:28 Maybe the peripheries are closer than we think

26:26 What it means to be “successful” in evangelization

31:22 A story of spiritual multiplication from an Oklahoma City parish

36:00 What do we mean by “Proclaim, Equip, Commission”?

*Takeaway quote: *
“Sometimes we need to ask ourselves: how long am I willing to walk with someone? Am I willing to stick with them in the long haul? To journey with them for a year, two years, three years… If it took Jesus three years, what makes me think I can do it any quicker?” -Amber Zolc

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Some moments of particular interest in their conversation:

1:22 Fr. James shares his own conversion story, and how the passion that came from it drives his ministry

4:26 The kind of motive that must “ground” our evangelizing mission

5:43 What really makes a missionary disciple

8:40 The universal call to holiness and mission, and what happens when we neglect the second part

11:30 How Jesus models perfectly for us how being relevant does not mean abandoning the essence of who we are

14:42 Why we must lead with evangelization with people who have not yet fallen in love with God

18:12 Is Alpha Catholic?

22:22 The distinction between feeding sheep and catching fish

24:15 Why it is actually an advantage that Alpha comes from outside the Catholic Church

Takeaway quote:

“If your investment in growth as a missionary doesn’t keep pace with your growth as a disciple, 3 things happen: you become weird, judgemental, and irrelevant.” - Fr. James Mallon

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