Shaping a Gospel Spirituality: A Practical Guide

Shaping a Gospel Spirituality: A Practical Guide offers thoughts, inspiration, reflection and practical ideas you can use today in your catechetical ministry. The goal of this booklet is to encourage you to use the Gospels as the primary source for shaping your own discipleship spirituality, that is, your response to God’s presence in you and your life that is the foundation for your vision and vocation as a Christian. A discipleship spirituality demands adopting Jesus’ worldview as our own (the challenge of conversion) and then sharing that worldview with others (the challenge of evangelization).

Thus we focus on how each Gospel writer:

• portrayed Jesus so that his words and deeds became the primary example of Christian living

• portrayed the disciples as positive and negative examples of the many possible ways of responding and following Jesus

• and so indicated ways for their communities to faithfully follow Jesus in the daily situations in which they found themselves.