How To Prepare a Witness Talk for Every Session
When developing your lessons plans for Faith Formation sessions, do you make it a point to include the living faith experience of yourself or someone else as a faith role model? We do not only teach content of the Catholic faith, but we are developing living witnesses of the faith-no matter their age. As Pope Francis states in The Joy of the Gospel,
The new evangelization calls for personal involvement on the part of each of the baptized. Every Christian is challenged, here and now, to be actively
engaged in evangelization; indeed, anyone who has truly experienced
God’s saving love does not need much time or lengthy training to go out
and proclaim that love. Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that
he or she has encountered the love of God in Christ Jesus: we no longer say
that we are “disciples” and “missionaries”, but rather that we are always
“missionary disciples”.
Jared Dees on his blog, The Religion Teacher offers a way that a catechist can make a personal experience of one’s faith be worked into each Faith Formation session.
Lesson plan
What is your experience when sharing your faith in Faith Formation sessions?
The new evangelization calls for personal involvement on the part of each of the baptized. Every Christian is challenged, here and now, to be actively
engaged in evangelization; indeed, anyone who has truly experienced
God’s saving love does not need much time or lengthy training to go out
and proclaim that love. Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that
he or she has encountered the love of God in Christ Jesus: we no longer say
that we are “disciples” and “missionaries”, but rather that we are always
“missionary disciples”.
Jared Dees on his blog, The Religion Teacher offers a way that a catechist can make a personal experience of one’s faith be worked into each Faith Formation session.
Lesson plan
What is your experience when sharing your faith in Faith Formation sessions?