We need to be filled with wonder if we are to communicate the Good News, and that wonder doesn’t come primarily from reading or listening to talks. It comes primarily from an interior experience. Just as the early Christian disciples were filled with the experience of the risen Christ and went out, each of them laying down their lives to proclaim the Good News around the world. So we ourselves, by that interior discovery of Christ within us, become filled with the same wonder and energy of generosity. We’re not trying to convert. You know, if you try to convert everybody you meet, you’re a bit like a man or a woman who is desperate to get married, and everyone you meet at every party or every dinner pretty well picks up quickly that is what is in your mind and of course it scares them away. We need to find the best way in the circumstances – with the people we are with, with the kind of audience we are with – to explain why we are disciples and what a holy life really means.
Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 3: Evangelisation: by Laurence Freeman OSB
