AFRICAN LADY gave me a cheap set of plastic rosary beads at st. catherine laboure church...didn't need or want them..but she insisted...& I wasn't sure what to make of it..was this her subtle way of being condescending towards me...thinking "the poor American man"...she never saw me before at this church so she assumes I've never been to church before...ha ha..ive been to this church numerous times...I haven't see her either..but i didn't assume she's never been there..what concerns me is that some people use the "facade of evangelism" to create a hierarchy...as if the church is a 'pyramid scheme"...and that getting a new recruit or convert is getting somebody to join the ladder beneath you...maybe making you feel a little more powerful or higher on the scale...but the CHURCH IS NOT A PYRAMID SCHEME ! We will not be good or "successful" evangelists if we think we are better than those we are trying to lead to Christ...because we are NOT BETTER...maybe even WORSE?! IRONIC YES, but being saved does not immediately make us BETTER persons...although it should over time make us better..but sometimes false evangelists enter into the church because they think it is a pyramid scheme..a ladder to climb..beware of such persons..IN CHRIST WE ARE co-equals..and should be treating each other as such respectfully...let's hope & pray she was sincere, albeit mistaken in approaching me as a new recruit, somebody who needed a set of cheap plastic rosary beads to become a better or true Christian or Catholic.
