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  • Forming Intentional Disciples (Expanded)

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    How can we transmit a living, personal Catholic faith to future generations? By coming to know Jesus Christ, and following him as his disciples.

    As we emerge from a pandemic into a post-Christian world, these are times of immense challenge and enormous opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United States. Consider these statistics:

    *Fully 10 percent of all adults in America are ex-Catholics.

    *Nearly three-quarters of young Catholics think that they could be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday.

    *Catholic marriages have declined by almost two thirds since 1969, even as the number of Catholics in the United States has grown significantly.

    *Only one third of Catholics believe that the bread and wine actually become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ at the consecration during Mass.

    If the Church is to reverse these trends, the evangelizers must first be evangelized. In other words, Catholics in the pew must make a conscious choice to know and follow Jesus before they can draw others to him.

    Ten years after it was first published, Forming Intentional Disciples is still helping scores of Church leaders, parish staff, and all Catholics transform parish life from within. World-renowned author and speaker Sherry Weddell leads you through the steps that will help Catholics enter more deeply into a relationship with God and the river of apostolic creativity, charisms, and vocation that flow from that relationship for the sake of the Church and the world.

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  • Forming Intentional Disciples

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    How can we transmit a living, personal Catholic faith to future generations? By coming to know Jesus Christ, and following him as his disciples.

    These are times of immense challenge and immense opportunity for the Catholic Church.

    Consider these statistics for the United States.

    *Only 30 percent of Americans who were raised Catholic are still practicing.
    *Fully 10 percent of all adults in America are ex-Catholics.
    *The number of marriages celebrated in the Church decreased dramatically, by nearly 60 percent, between 1972 and 2010.
    *Only 60 percent of Catholics believe in a personal God.

    If the Church is to reverse these trends, the evangelizers must first be evangelized-in other words, Catholics-in-the-pew must make a conscious choice to know and follow Jesus before they can draw others to him. This work of discipleship lies at the heart of Forming Intentional Disciples, a book designed to help Church leaders, parish staff and all Catholics transform parish life from within. Drawing upon her fifteen years of experience with the Catherine of Siena Institute, Sherry Weddell leads readers through steps that will help Catholics enter more deeply into a relationship with God and the river of apostolic creativity, charisms, and vocation that flow from that relationship for the sake of the Church and the world.

    Learn about the five thresholds of postmodern conversion, how to open a conversation about faith and belief, how to ask thought-provoking questions and establish an atmosphere of trust, when to tell the Great Story of Jesus, how to help someone respond to God’s call to intentional discipleship, and much more.

    And be prepared for conversion because when life at the parish level changes, the life of the whole Church will change.

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