When we consider how to bring more people into the church, how to evangelize, we often think apologetics. We think of the faith as a set of teachings, as dogma, as doctrine to be shared.
When we only look through this lens we miss something. We miss that the faith is a way of life, or to use modern language, it’s a lifestyle. This isn’t actually anything groundbreaking. Plenty of saints and spiritual writers talk about it. Even our Lord says that “He is the way, the truth, and the life”.
Two of those, the way and the life, don’t really imply a set of teachings. I think the truth covers that.
We need the dogma, we need the doctrine, we need the teaching, but let us not neglect that our first tool in the mission of evangelization might well be just how we live our lives.
Let us pray. Lord, we believe that You are the way, the truth, and the life. Give us the grace to follow Your way, to embody Your truth, to live Your life. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
