How does the Orthodox Church evangelize?

In this video we ask Father John Mahfouz of Saint Matthew Orthodox Christian Church in Torrance, CA about the Church's method of evangelization, one which is rather foreign in the west. To find out more about St. Matthew Orthodox Christian Church, visit our website at www.saint-matthew.net/ or visit our Facebook page / stmatthewtorrance
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[@h1mynameisdav3]

Orthodox evangelize by living through example and inspiring others. The other way, which is very recent and also extremely powerful, is internet evangelism. We dont need to be loud to get the message out on the net, people may search and learn peacefully.

[@Orthodoxy.Memorize.Scripture]

Question: Orthodox in America largely moved here for opportunities and freedom, then churches naturally formed. But St. Innocent of Alaska and St. Nikolai of Japan both moved to foreign lands to bring the Gospel and Orthodoxy to those places. They too had to find people to speak with. There’s similarity to going out into the public today to that of the saints and apostles.

[@RootsofOrthodoxy]

Great video Father! ☦

[@orthodox1717]

Fantastic!

[@gaviriak]

We need more people in the west to learn about the Orthodoxy cause most of them believe we are roman catholics when we are not.

[@2kslimey]

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[@dianerose2561]

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[@user-tq8dy3mm9o]

So what’s the gospel?

[@tjkhan4541]

Yes, unfortunately this does not actually lay out the message’s content. I can’t think of how a mainline Liberal Protestant minister would answer differently than Fr John did here. Which is unfortunate.

[@gabrielgabriel5177]

The new martyr of Russia Daniel Sysoev was evangelizing just like protestants he even made orthodox tract and made street evangelism. Hundreds of people converted to the holy orthodoxy even many muslims. Muslims killed him and he became a martyr. He said one who feels calling to do evangelism he need to start it immidiately even if he is cathecumen. If we think we need to reach certain level of spirituality maybe we never reach it and we will fo nothing. Most orthodox christians really do not do so much for evangelims. If they would there would be much more orthodox nations in the world

[@Zangified02]

Wow I didn’t know this, Mr Sysoev was truly a great man, God bless his soul

[@tinker-ing-around2317]

A possible hindrance for both evangelism and orthodox church growth with new converts here in the USA is the long held practice of conducting all the many Orthodox services in one of the many ethnic languages (Greek, Russian, Serbian, etc.). Even Paul understood the importance of using a language that could easily be understood by the listener by saying, "But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue."_1Cor.14:19. He knew it to be important for the listener to understand the message spoken.