Wheres the zeal?
All of that coalesces to give evangelization a bad name, and has led to a loss of energy, zeal and enthusiasm for sharing our faith heritage with others. This awkwardness or uncomfortability, I believe, is why we in our Catholic Christian community have had such difficulty in coping with the growing trend toward fundamentalism within our society and why our efforts at evangelization have generally been unsuccessful. It is also why our response to the call of our Holy Father Pope John Paul II for a new evangelization is so urgent and critically important. Search for meaning Yes, the insights of our Holy Father, coupled with that of documented research, reveal conclusively that people today are longing for someone to share faith and spirituality with them; for someone to be open and vulnerable, willing to take the time and to run the risk of initiating the evangelizing process. Thus, I am convinced that, in the new millennium, through a person-to-person, peer-to-peer approach to sharing
