the new evangelization. what is christ’s mandate? what does mandate mean?
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The New Evangelization
What is Christ’s mandate? What does
mandate mean?
What is the same ?What is different?
…Then
vs
Now…
Current Cultural Characteristics
• Relativism• Individualism•Materialism• Secularism
Be able to make distinctions
VERITAS
•What is truth?
“truth is.”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INhLs0RIAQM&feature=BFa&list=UUH4-usupiIjtT7uETsnLnnQ
What is the difference b/w
objective truth and subjective truth
Relativism
Are all things relative?
Relativism is not a single doctrine but a family of views whose common theme is that some central aspect of experience, thought, evaluation, or even reality is somehow relative to something else (Stanford encyclopedia)
- Forms of relativism : “It is all a matter of opinion” Absolutism - freedom and tolerance as absolutes
Make distinctions!!!!!
Tolerance and freedom are good in themselves, but they are not Gods themselves
Relativism cont…
Cultural Relativism
Moral Relativism
What IS wrong with relativism?What are consequences of a “relativistic” mentality?
Truth is. Vs. Opinion is.
• Truth doesn’t change according to your ability to stomach it. (see poster)• Principle of non-contradiction:
something can’t “be and not be” at the same time.
• is the test easy? = relative • Is he tall? = relative• Does that chair exist? =
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 end
You 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
Religious Freedom vs
Freedom of Worship
Secularism in govt.
•
• Catholic Charities Adoption Agencies closed• Refusal to rent public building to Christians• Petition this Christmas to call Catholic Church a
‘hate group’• HHS Mandate
• Gloria = well spoken on HHS• dec31 hobby lobby • pope on secularism
Compatability (natural law)
Separation of Church and State
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations and the Arab Spring
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