The New Evangelization

What is the same?What is different?

Current Cultural Characteristics

• Relativism• Individualism•Materialism• Secularism

Be able to make distinctions

Relativism

Cultural Relativism

Moral Relativism

Truth is. Vs. Opinion is.

• Truth doesn’t change according to your ability to stomach it.• Principle of non-contradiction:

something can’t “be and not be” at the same time.

Is anything relative?

•Objective Truth•Subjective Truth

Relativism cont…

Tolerance and freedom are good in themselves, but they are not Gods themselves

Gospel answer to relativism?

• The Truth will set you free• I am the way the truth• The Lord is our God – the Lord is one.

Individualism

• Looking out for number 1• Theme song in Hell = “I did it my way”

Individualism vs individuality/diversity

Gospel response to individualism?

• God• Team• Me

materialism

Materialism

Product as an end vs people as an endYou are a human being not a human doing

Nothing you can DO can win God’s love for you. It is always there.

Everything is a grace. You must be poor of spirit and detached to be open to it.

Secularism

Secularism vs. Religious tolerance

• God can’t be compartmentalized! He is there whether you want him to be or not.

Are there ways you see relativism, individualism, materialism or secularism in the your teenage world?

What should the new evangelization look like?

What is your responsibility in the new evangelization?

Describe the behavior of a true follower of Christ in today’s society….

Christian

• Virtue – not acting on feeling – but on choice of the good• Prayer – • Concern for others – awareness of others