Social Media and Evangelization

With the technological advances, we can see that it is easy to evangelize, to spread the word of God by thousands of people through facebook, television, radio, etc. We have to use these media, for our mission is to evangelize, we have to bring the word of God to all, for the message is universal. But it is clear. Always be attentive and vigilant.

Thus as we can evangelize using the media, we can also lose ourselves because the way that has many good things, also has many bad things. Therefore, we have to be attentive  for we cannot do bad things using these media, and we cannot lose our Christian values nor our human dignity.

The Church has a certain worry with these advances, for there can  be many bad things, the Church’s worry is with the Human Being, or better, it is with the Human person and his values.That through the media, many persons are allowing themselves to have what the media offers and are losing themselves in this world. The youth are the principle targets to lose themselves in the world of the media where there is no human value, where one loses the essence of the Human Being.

The Church cannot flee from these media and now more than ever, the Church has to infiltrate in this world of the media, to rescue the human values and bring the word of God, making her evangelization, but never forgetting that we should be attentive and vigilante, not allowing to bring though what the media offers, we have to be strong and show our values.

And you who are young, who are Christian, use the media to do good, bring the word of God to those friends that are losing themselves in the world, through what the media offers, showing the strength and power that God has for you and what He is capable of doing for each one of us. I do not say this only for the youth, but for the adults as well, we are going to show our human value that today few understand.

translated from portuguese