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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1:58 How asking questions can help people unearth their spiritual concerns, experiences, etc.

5:20 What is the difference between pre-evangelization and “just chickening out?”

8:26 Working towards a spiritual environment change

11:11 Figuring out what the Holy Spirit is already doing, and asking how we can help

15:33 All of the baptised have been given charisms that operate in and assist in our evangelization

18:00 Bringing people to an invitation to follow Jesus and letting them decide their own speed

Takeaway quote: You’ll never meet a person for whom God is not already present in some way, whether they know it or not… So you say, “Lord, show me what you are doing.”

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Some moments of particular interest:

0:40 A story of when you try to share Jesus with others and it goes wrong

5:05 Why it’s ok to make mistakes and learn from them as missionaries

8:53 Why are Alpha and Discovery the two tools being chosen for Proclaim?

11:12 How do you help people who feel like they’ve already “been there, done that” when it comes to hearing the Gospel?

14:33 3 phases an evangelizer might progress through in maturation

18:01 Alpha or Discovery: which tool should I use?

21:40 Cooperating with the Holy Spirit, the “principal agent” in evangelization

24:37 The radical intimacy of a relationship with God

34:06 We are not leading people to more knowledge, but to an encounter with Jesus

Takeaway quote: “Christianity is useful because it is true.”

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Some moments of particular interest in their conversation:

0:00 The unique missionary advantage and unique challenges we have in the Catholic Church today

4:20 Person to person relationship is crucial in evangelization

6:08 Why we need to have a “shallow end” in our Church

8:48 The power of the Alpha Weekend and why we shouldn’t cut it out

14:06 Hope is the ground of all that we do, and how we can grow in this virtue

16:55 We need to call on the Holy Spirit and expect the Holy Spirit to come

Takeaway quote: “It’s as simple as this: we need a new Pentecost in the Church. The wind of the Holy Spirit has to breathe.”

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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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