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The Four Ways Forward Discussion Questions

The Four Ways Forward Discussion Questions

Here are discussion questions for The Four Ways Forward, the book by Susan Windley-Daoust that outlines the four evangelization practices of fruitful, joyful, vibrant parishes. Use this resource to spark reflection and conversation as your parish group or leadership team discusses the book.

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Assessing Your Parish Ministry and Apostolates for Evangelization (PDF)

Assessing Your Parish Ministry and Apostolates for Evangelization (PDF)

Any parish that wants to meet people at different thresholds of human and Christian maturation needs to be engaged in at least three of the four approaches that have emerged within the New Evangelization. This worksheet is an opportunity for parish leaders to assess the strength of your parish or cluster by doing a quick check on which supports you have in place, and which are missing.

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Evangelization Needs More Football Players

Evangelization Needs More Football Players

Evangelization needs more football players. Football, when it is played well, is a game of real strategy, skillset, and power. While you typically need all three to win, the essential need is not power and not skill, but strategy. You need to know where the goal is, how to play offense, how to work together…

Evangelizing is for Rural America, Too

Evangelizing is for Rural America, Too

The second in our “Starting Conversations” series. Feel free to share with your parish staff, community, small group, or some friends for some dialogue on evangelization topics that don’t get as much air time as they should. One problem I tend to see with the processes available to parishes that wish to become evangelizing parishes…

Why Don’t We Evangelize People Living with Disabilities?

Why Don’t We Evangelize People Living with Disabilities?

For all the discussion of the New Evangelization in the past forty years, there are topics that simply don’t get discussed, and should. I’m offering an occasional series of posts called Starting Conversations that I hope will get people thinking, talking, and doing. While I will offer opinions, my offerings are meant more to serve…

The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian World

The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian World

Radical hospitality and proclamation.
Spiritual multiplication.
Mission (re)focus.
Divine signs and wonders.

These are the four models practiced by fruitful, joyful, evangelizing parishes.

These are the four ways to move forward toward evangelizing our post-Christian culture. In The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian World, Susan Windley-Daoust, director of missionary discipleship for the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, explains each of these four approaches and concrete ways that parishes can implement them to transform their local church…and the world.

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The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian World

The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian World

The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian Worldby Susan Windley-DaoustOur Sunday Visitor (October 31, 2022)208 pages The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian World Radical hospitality and proclamation. Spiritual multiplication. Mission (re)focus. Divine signs and wonders. These are the four models practiced by fruitful, joyful, evangelizing parishes….