Lansing’s Pat Rinker, in the NFCYM Connections e-newsletter offers a brilliant presentation on the entwined relationship between evangelization and catechesis… between encounter and content.  Here’s a short snip:

Content, separate from effective witness, is at best impotent and at worst counterproductive. The key to our effectiveness in sharing the good news is our own conversion, as we humbly walk the journey of faith, in communion with those with whom we share it. Our dialogue regarding catechesis, from this point on, must never separate methodology and content into separate entities, but realize that one is a natural outgrowth of the other. Insomuch as we are the Body of Christ, and insomuch as, “Christ, the first evangelizer, is himself the Good News who proclaims the kingdom of God…” so must we be the good news as we share the good news with all we encounter.

Read it all here.