{"id":15565,"date":"2012-04-26T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=15565"},"modified":"2012-04-25T22:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T03:41:34","slug":"the-2012-non-evangelizing-guide-every-catholic-needs-to-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/the-2012-non-evangelizing-guide-every-catholic-needs-to-read-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2012 Non-Evangelizing Guide Every Catholic Needs To Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Today&#8217;s post is an intro into a two {or three} part series depending on how feisty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and &#8220;write-y&#8221;\u00a0I feel this week about ways\u00a0<strong>NOT<\/strong>\u00a0to evangelize. Today&#8217;s piece is foundational,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">meaning I&#8217;m going to build on it by writing a series based on my own personal experiences.<\/p>\n<p>I should start this piece of brilliance by stating that I don&#8217;t consider myself to be an expert in evangelizing, I don&#8217;t hold multiple degrees in theology from various Catholic universities {in fact, I hold a Spanish language degree that I don&#8217;t use from possibly\u00a0<strong>the<\/strong>\u00a0largest and most liberal university around &#8211; the University of Texas at Austin}, and I don&#8217;t consider my forte to be speaking to large groups of people with the goal of converting them to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. What I\u00a0<strong>do<\/strong>\u00a0have is good, old-fashioned\u00a0<em><strong>grit<\/strong><\/em>. I grew up in a small town in East Texas where Catholics there weren&#8217;t {and possibly still aren&#8217;t} much of an evangelizing influence by comparison to the prottie population. I also have a lot {read: MASSIVE AMOUNTS} of terrible experiences that I will share with you in an effort to create an &#8220;open eyes&#8221; effect. Sometimes the approach we feel is glorifying God is, in fact, doing the opposite. It is with painful humility that I will present to you some ways to turn people away from the Faith&#8230;if that&#8217;s your goal.<\/p>\n<p>Before I delve into all that yummy, delicious turnoff stuff, let me explain a little bit more about who I identify with in my evangelization efforts. I have four heroes in the Faith {after God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, Mary and all the angels, of course :)}. I present to you the cast of characters in the Faith I look to help guide me. My patron entourage, if you will.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicsistas.com\/2012\/01\/03\/the-2012-non-evangelizing-guide-every-catholic-needs-to-read\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at Catholic Sistas&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is an intro into a two {or three} part series depending on how feisty and &#8220;write-y&#8221;\u00a0I feel this week about ways\u00a0NOT\u00a0to evangelize. Today&#8217;s piece is foundational, meaning I&#8217;m going to build on it by writing a series based on my own personal experiences. I should start this piece of brilliance by stating that&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/the-2012-non-evangelizing-guide-every-catholic-needs-to-read-2\/\">[Read&nbsp;More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[735,62,732,736,733,734],"class_list":["post-15565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog","tag-blessed-margaret-costello","tag-evangelization","tag-how-not-to","tag-st-francis","tag-st-paul","tag-st-therese","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124040,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/a-response-to-what-sucks-about-the-catholic-church\/","url_meta":{"origin":15565,"position":0},"title":"A Response to &#8220;What Sucks about the Catholic Church&#8221;","author":"Lindsay Wilcox","date":"June 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Every spring brings the Church a batch of shiny new Catholics, and every year I see the same list of complaints. 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