In Gods providence right now its the Philippines church were its happening right now.

This church is playing a very important role.

In manila, people are on the cutting edge of the new evangelization
7 Recommendations:
1. Lead with the beautiful. Lead with the beauty of the Catholic faith
Remember
The way of beauty
3 transcedentals true, good, beautiful
In our postmodern culture it is difficult to begin with the true and good
Beginning with the true and good can be non-starters
Mother Teresas sisters in calcutte
The beautiful is less threatening
But the beauty will lead to the true and the good
Who are these people who built it? Who inspired them? What made that possible what is the
good that so grasped their heart that they are willing to live this way.
Once I had played the game for many years,
Its first the beauty of Catholicism that draws us in. then the beauty draws us in I want to play that
game. Once we in that world I understand these rules, I understand its regulations.
Walk the way of beauty
2. Dont dumb down the message. Dont dumb down Catholicism
Vatican II was the fruit of the cream of the crop of catholic intelligentia of the mid 20th century.
The peole who gave us Vatican II were some of the smartest people of the catholic world.
The inteeligence of these people surgin through these documents.
When I was going to school during those years after the council
This dumbed doewn Catholicism was a pastoral disaster. This childish superficial religion was
not feeding them. And they left. They left in droves.
When stop thinking about the faith it loses vibrancy.
I want this series to be beautiful and to be smart because that is what Catholicism is.
3. Preach the faith with ardour.
Fire
From the beginning the most persuasive evangelical preachers were firey.

People only listening to an exciting speaker

If we can muster for an exercise machine, can we muster some fire and ardour for the Eternal
word of God.
There is not truth or goodness there is only my truth and my goodness
In the name of freedom we knocked so many of the absolutes. And what happens is the energy of
our culture is dissipating
We dont know where we are going we dont know what our purpose is
4. Tell the great story
Whats the good news

The goodnews is that the story of Israel has come to its climax
If you dont know the story you will not appreciate Jesus as the climax of that story.
The story of Israel has come to its fulfilment
Act 1 creation
Brought into beign with intelligent purpose
Act 2 the fall
Through our sin creation has been compromised thorugh our sin our freedom and integrity have
been compromised. but God never abandons his creation God endeavoured to save it.
Act 3 Israel
Through a people who learned to worship Him aright.
A gathered isreal become s the magtenic point which then gathers the nations of the world
Act 4 the Messiah Massiach has come
the fulfilment of all the prophets
these are people who want to grab you by the lapels and tell you that the Massiach of Israel has
come.
Thats evangelization to tell the great story
5. relearn iraneus doctrine of God
The glory of God is a human being fully alive
His glory is when we flourish
Thre are a lot of philosphsies both ancient and modern which say the exact opposite
Faeurbach: The no to God is the yes to man

Echoed my Sigmund freud religion is an infantile fantasy

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The more we surrender to the true God the more alive we become the more our humanity is
realized
Christianity is the greatest humanism possible
God became man so that man can become God
We have been called to share in Gods own life
Moses sees a bush on fire but not consumed when the true God comes close, we are rendered
beautiful and radiant and not destroyed
We need to announce authentic Christian humanism
6. When you evangelize stress augustines anthropology
Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee
The prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel
Building altars
God sent fire
7. the use of the new media
Send a ot of time with the old media first
Open a lot of books
The new evangelization is new in ardour and new in expression
Time comparable to gutenburg in temrs of the revolution of technology