The point of this week’s lesson isn’t necessarily to encourage you to pack up your bags and move to Africa to evangelize the poor pagans there,* but we would like to challenge you to think about the topic of evangelization as an everyday event in YOUR life.

It’s easy to just assume that there are professionals on the job and the rest of us best stay out of the way.  Priests, religious, and professional apologists** are all trained and ready to do it well, right?  It’s true – their visible public witness, zeal for the Faith, and professional credentials all work together to typically make them very effective witnesses of the message of Christ, and that’s an essential role of the Church in our world.  Equally essential, however, is that all the rest of us also keep watch for opportunities to share the Faith and boldly trust the Holy Spirit help us out when needed.  It’s our hope that this lesson will raise your awareness of that, and will provide some simple ways you can make sharing the Faith with your family, your neighbors, your co-workers, and even random strangers you happen to meet, a part of your life.

*Actually, it seems that more and more priests are coming to America to evangelize the poor pagans here!

**Apologetics: The branch of theology that is concerned with defending or proving the truth of Christian doctrines.