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The theme for World Mission Day—October 23, 2011—is: “As the Father has sent me, so I send you” (John 20:21). Are we willing to be sent? Clearly, the degree to which we are willing to evangelize is linked to the degree to which we have understood the great work that Jesus has done in us and in the church.
St. Paul was so dedicated to evangelization because he knew what Jesus had done for him, and he wanted to share it with everyone he met. In his First Letter to the Corinthians, he wrote: “I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures” ?(1 Corinthians 15:3-4). These are truths that Paul “received,” both in his personal experience and as he learned the gospel story from Peter and the other apostles.
Like Paul, if we want to hand on this good news of salvation, we need to be able to express what we have received by both personal experience and formal training. Evangelization is a skill to be…
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