by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 21, 2016 | Reposted, Stories from the Street
Pensacola, FL. The mission of the priest is to be a witness of the Gospel, a minister of reconciliation, in the person of Christ the Head of the Church. Though priests do this in their parishes and other venues all the time, it is great to have them out on the streets...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 20, 2016 | Reposted, Stories from the Street
Bloomington, IN. Prayer is of the utmost importance in the Christian life. For the street evangelist, outings should begin and end with prayer, and, since St. Paul exhorts us to “pray always,” they should even be filled with it. But prayer should also be part of the...
by | Jan 14, 2016 | Apologetics
Are All Churches the Same? Plymouth, MI. Are all churches basically the same? Does it matter which church you belong to? On the one hand, it can seem like maybe it doesn’t matter. Salvation comes from living faith in Jesus Christ, and many churches seem to inculcate...
by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 5, 2015 | Stories from the Street, Techniques
Bloomington, IN. Prayer is of the utmost importance in the Christian life. For the street evangelist, outings should begin and end with prayer, and, since St. Paul exhorts us to “pray always,” they should even be filled with it. But prayer should also be part of the...
by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 2, 2015 | Principles, Stories from the Street
Bloomington, IN. Scott, director of religious education for St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Bloomington, joined the Indiana University SPSE team for evangelization on the university campus. One of his first street evangelization outings, he’s putting in to...
by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 1, 2015 | Principles, Stories from the Street
Baltimore, MD. Evangelization is most appropriately carried out within what we might call “authentic human encounters.” What is an “authentic human encounter”? At the least, it is a human encounter where the freedom and dignity of the other is respected. Why is this...
