April 26, 2007<\/p>\n
Are you an evangelist?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
My bet is that most of you would say no.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I’m not talking about the group of Christians called Evangelists.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’m not talking about TV Evangelists.\u00c2\u00a0 But just a plain ordinary Evangelist, like Philip in the first reading.\u00c2\u00a0 Philip heard the promptings of the spirit- fruits of his own Baptism and Faith, and played the role of an Evangelist.\u00c2\u00a0 Still fresh from the Euphoria of Jesus’ Resurrection, Philip echoed what he knew about the scriptures and Jesus.\u00c2\u00a0 And so, he converted and baptized the Ethiopian Eunuch.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Each of you is in contact every day with people like the Ethiopian Eunuch: people who are seeking the truth; people who read about their faith, and don’t understand; and people who ask questions- maybe not with their lips, but with their eyes, their attitude, or their body language.\u00c2\u00a0 All of us, by virtue of our Baptisms are called to be evangelists in words and deeds.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
At this special time of the Church Year when the Resurrection is fresh in our minds, we have an opportunity to spread our Easter Joy to others.\u00c2\u00a0 If you hear a little voice inside prompting you to be a Philip to a friend, coworker, or relative, try to respond to the urgings of the spirit.\u00c2\u00a0 The Gospel tells us that no one can come to the Father except through Jesus.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesus is the word of God.\u00c2\u00a0 You all can carry the word of God to others.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, what about you?\u00c2\u00a0 Are you an Evangelist?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
April 26, 2007 Thursday, Third Week of Easter “Are You an Evangelist?” Acts 8: 26-40; John 6: 44-51 Dc. Larry Brockman Are you an evangelist?\u00c2\u00a0 My bet is that most of you would say no.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I’m not talking about the group of Christians called Evangelists.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’m not talking about TV Evangelists.\u00c2\u00a0 But just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}