Should we recruit?

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I am interested in this, and I want to ask a question of the forum. Do you think that we should be active in our recruitment of people into the faith? I am not saying that we go as far as some of our more badgering brothers in the Baptist sect, but do you think that we should be out there pushing the Church more than we do?

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sadie2723:
I am interested in this, and I want to ask a question of the forum. Do you think that we should be active in our recruitment of people into the faith? I am not saying that we go as far as some of our more badgering brothers in the Baptist sect, but do you think that we should be out there pushing the Church more than we do?

Brad
Youbetcha.
Evangelize always, use words when necessary.
 
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sadie2723:
I am interested in this, and I want to ask a question of the forum. Do you think that we should be active in our recruitment of people into the faith? I am not saying that we go as far as some of our more badgering brothers in the Baptist sect, but do you think that we should be out there pushing the Church more than we do?

Brad
We should share the joy and truth of the Church with others. I don’t think we should be oppressive or threaten others with what we know. I have seen others say flatly that if you go to this church you are guarenteed hell or not allow the other to speak on their beleifs and what not.
 
We convert others to our faith by our Catholic Christian lives. Good example. The Church is not concerned with “numbers”, but true followers of Christ and His church. It takes a little longer “recruiting” by this method, but the newly converted are more likely to remain in the Church rather than the revolving door “conversions” so many other deniminations experience.

Love and peace,

Mom of 5
 
I can only speak for me and knowing me, when something is pushed upon me–I tend to run the other way. 😉

I think that our actions and how we speak are far more telling of our faith than all the lip service in the world. I’m learning, I used to constantly jump in and defend my faith to others, but not in a very attractive way. It came to me that God’s Church is God’s Church and He’s in charge of it; nobody’s gonna change that fact. If I hear something false said about the Catholic religion, I’ll correct that person and leave it at that. If folks have a question about the Catholic faith, I’m more than willing to answer them.

Sharing my faith has been a gift–heck, I’ve got a Southern-raised Baptist praying the Rosary and she now has a devotion to the Blessed Mother. Can a conversion be far away? Only if it’s in God plan, not mine. 👍
 
You know what amazes me? The Church hardly does anything in the way of going out and evangelizing, knocking on doors, streetcorner preaching, advertising on secular TV, etc. Yet, thousands of people come into the Church every year. I don’t know the exact statistics, but I’m sure that the Church has as many people converting every year as the LDS church does, and look at how much effort they put in their recruiting campaign!

It’s a real testament to the Catholic faith.

It also makes me wonder how many more thousands would be trying to beat the doors down (no need, just a soft knock will do) to come home to the Church…

Just my :twocents:
 
I have an interesting viewpoint…

I don’t think that you should EVER go the route of the Evangelical types…Like an earlier post mentined, use you Catholic Christian life to encourage others to join.

There are many reasons why I would like to become Catholic…
But one area stands out to me: You guys do not go door to door. You let the people come to you…It works out well this way…You know for sure that you will be getting genuine people. My friend did not say, “Here I am GOING to tell you about my faith”. She was respectful enough to keep evangelizing to minimum. Only when I asked her about her faith did she go into detail about her Catholicism…

This ties in with the above: But it really is amazing to lead somebody to your church solely by living Christian lives. You set yourself as an example…God doesn’t care about numbers (many evangelical types disagree).

Yeah, please don’t go the evangelical route…

Joe
 
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sadie2723:
I am interested in this, and I want to ask a question of the forum. Do you think that we should be active in our recruitment of people into the faith? I am not saying that we go as far as some of our more badgering brothers in the Baptist sect, but do you think that we should be out there pushing the Church more than we do?

Brad
Yes. We should evangelize others. We should do better than we have been doing.
 
I wanted to add something: Yes, please recruit. However, do it where you respect the recruitee. Some evangelicals go to great lengths to ‘dumb’ down the potential convert. All I am saying is to use discretion and always love.

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Joe
 
IWhen you see a great movie do you keep it to yourself or do you encourage your friends to go see it?
We have this amazing Church, as a convert I am well aware of the riches which we as Catholics are blessed with, and I am learning more everyday.
It is in this way that we need to share our bounty with others. We need to be on fire for Christ and his Bride. Show the non-Catholics that we are not just happy in our faith but secure and rooted in her truth.
And you’re right, the in-your-face approach is sometimes offensive but I think that Catholics, from my experience tend to be much more passive about sharing their faith with others than protestants.
I am lucky, my parish is large and is able to host a generous amount of outreach and evangailzation programs. Not every parish has the resources to do so.
I don’t know. I guess I thought that’s what God wanted us to do. Go and make disciples.
 
our actions and the way we live our lives should be evangelism enough…if we truly let God rule our lives, then who wouldn’t want the utter joy and completness we would possess?
 
just curious what do badgering brother Baptists do?

The only ones I know that go door to door are JW’s and Mormons. Ive seen evangelicals give out phamplets inviting the neighbours to concerts but thats it.

Now if someone is street corner evangelizing the goal there is to promote Jesus not a particular church. Although a person could be directed to the church its not whats important.

So its not really recuriting its trying to fullfill the Great Commision.

And some stand on street corners, some talk to co workers, some greet people who come to church, some talk to their family and friends , some go to other countries, its what we are supposed to do to spread the Gospel.

There is a street corner church in my town they were passive about God handing out pamphlets. The response was small, then they put up speakers and told people to repent and the response was huge. When a person accepts Christ then they direct them to any of the inner city churches.
 
No offense, but I think some of you are copping out. Don’t get me wrong, I do on this topic as well. But I think we have a mission to evangelize and a mission to educate. I must admit when I spent months on here and using other resources to learn as much as I could about Catholicism but I still learn something new practically every time I pick up a new book or come on here or go to RCIA. There’s a difference between being pushy and evangelizing. Why not try?

Anyone can lead a good life. Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Catholic, Mormon, etc. My wife thought it was wonderful that the Catholics she knew were so faithful to their religion and good people. But that never caused her to want to be one. It wasn’t until I began intently studying Catholic beliefs.

I worry, that in today’s society, if Catholics don’t educate their own more effectively and become more active in evangelization that it will become a “hereditary” religion like Judaism with no one really coming in to the faith.

Numbers, I believe, IS an issue. Not that you want tons of folks who don’t truly believe. But I don’t think Jesus wants us to just sit back and hope for the best. I think he’d be much happier to see us attempting to bring people closer to him. Even if we fail or falter.

How do you answer Joe Blow at work when he says "Why would I want to go to all that work to be a Catholic? RCIA, confession, etc. I can go down the street here to 1st Church of the Month and all I do is walk down front one Sunday and fill out a little card!

We need to know our faith well and we need to be ready to share it.
Again, I doubt I’d be the first one to volunteer, but being honest w/ myself, I think that’s what we SHOULD be doing.
 
For the Church as a whole, yes we should be trying to bring more people into the flock.

For each individual though… some people are called to go out and evangelise in various ways, some on the streets, others through various groups and organisations, others one on one to their friends, and some are not called to deliberately try to evangelise at all. Because the thing is that some people just don’t have the talent for it, don’t have interpersonal skills, and even though the opportunity might present itself every now and then, some people (like me) have terrible luck and whenever they try to tell others about what they believe, the others seem less inclined towards God and the Church. Having said that, people who are bad at evangelising are often good at other things and can serve God in other ways. Some people are called to the reclusive life (monks and etc) - not much evangelising they can do out in the desert but they still are serving God.

We, the Church, should recruit. But should you recruit? That’s a question you’ve got to ask yourself and ask God and work out based on the talents and the opportunities that God gives you. Similarly, if you decide that you specifically should recruit, you should ask the question ‘how should I recruit?’ Because some people might be terrible with adults but can do a lot of good work by teaching CCD to children in primary school. Others might have so much charisma that they could go around at a rock concert wearing a cape that says ‘I love Jesus’ and convert people (this actually happened once down here). Others can teach RCIA, others are priests and preach to congregations, others can go and give talks at universities and pubs and other secular places, etc. Hope you find what is right for you.
 
Absolutely yes, I believe that the Catholic Church should actively seek conversions to the Faith.
1st way: by exemplary Catholic Christian living
2nd way: by canvassing the neighborhoods and leaving
little tracts with the householders, and inviting them to
visit the parish.

Jaypeeto3
 
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