A person who claims to preach the Gospel by convincing people of their beliefs in Jesus is not evangelizing, but proselytizing, Pope Francis said. "If there is no Holy Spirit, there is no evangelization," the pope said Oct. 2 during his weekly general audience. But evangelization means letting the Holy Spirit guide you, that he is the one that pushes you to announce, to proclaim with your witness, with martyrdom as well as with the word." "That powerful man," the pope said, "recognizes that he needs to be guided to understand the word of God. Nevertheless, the pope said, what pushed Philip to meet with the man was the Holy Spirit who is ultimately "the protagonist of the evangelization."

Source: Ethiopian News October 02, 2019 14:15 UTC