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The New Evangelisation: How to Be a Hobbit - Dr Conor Sweeney
The Dawson Society - Audio Library
English - October 19, 2015 06:24 - 57 minutes - 53 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture Philosophy catholic society christian christianity christopherdawson dawson dawsonsociety history perth speakersforum Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Evangelisation is not activism. It has nothing to do with the techniques, programs, and lobbying that defines social and political activism. Instead, it has everything to do with the witness of one who lives and embodies a kind of feeling, tasting, and savoring relationship with the faith they profess.
To evangelize effectively, is to be a hobbit: it is to embody the small way, the long way, the slow encounter, the deep abiding. It is to first receive faith as a culture and practice of love, to be immersed and transformed here, and only then to offer this faith to the world as an act of love. “For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortune of all”.