German bishop says evangelization not ‘right answer’ to people leaving Church
German Bishop Opposes Efforts to Convince People of the Gospel
Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg, Germany, has criticized calls for new evangelization strategies as a response to declining Church membership.
“I am very skeptical of strategies and methods aimed at deliberately persuading people,” Monsignor Feige told Herder Korrespondenz in its September issue.
Addressing secularization, pluralization, individualization, increased mobility and digitalization, Bishop Feige said: “Methods of evangelization hardly seem to me to be the right response to these complex phenomena.”
Instead, the bishop argued that the Church should focus on living out its mission through service to others, “It is not about imposing the Gospel on people,” he said. “The present age challenges us to be a Church that is as authentic and committed to serving others as possible.”
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German bishop says evangelization not ‘right answer’ to people leaving Church
All the fruits of the 2VC.
He is "very sceptical" he said.
If he had faith as small as a mustard seed, at least he would not be skeptical. He would do his job, his life's calling to which he himself voluntarily responded, and God would do the rest.
But the conciliarists who have now metastasized into synodalists, would do anything but what they were called to and agreed to do. What will be their reward?!
Twice I visited two German chancery offices, over 30 years ago, and I came to the conclusion that none of the clerics working there believed in God.