Fr. Mike Schmitz

One of the things I've said and I will say again and again is I believe that the gospel in our culture, that Christ in our culture, the gospel will not be advanced from a stage or from necessarily a podcast or from anyone on any kind of screen or any kind of internet platform.

but the gospel will be truly advanced through families and through friendships.

I just, I'm so convinced of this.

The gospel will advance, yeah, in some other ways, because these tools are awesome.

Like this podcast, I'm so grateful to be part of this community.

But truly, the way in which this is spread is through families and through friendships.

That's why so many of you, I know,

When you listen to this podcast, you then talk about it with your family or you talk about it with your friends.

And it's like, I just think right now on day 353, all of the ways, all the friendships over the last 353 days that have been strengthened, all the family members who I just, again, I hear about this again and again, that, um,

They say, yeah, I text my brother about the Bible reading for today, or I text this group of friends I have about the reading for this week.

And I just think that is remarkable.

That's incredible.

That is the way the gospel will advance, not just sharing the gospel of God, but also sharing our very selves.

And I'm so proud of so many of you.

I just get to stand here and I get to read the word of God.

But you get to share it with the people in your lives.

And you do share it.

And you get to share your lives with them too.

And you do share that.

And that's incredible.