"The Eucharist Liturgy as our properly defined relationship with God may also help us understand what it is we have to say to the world about the Triune God who so loved the world as to enter into it in order to bring us all to union with God."
“QUESTION: The people around me are non-believers. I often try to explain to them Who it is that I believe in, and what the content of my faith is. But from their side I encounter mockery. Am I doing the right thing in trying to explain things to them, or is this what our Lord Jesus Christ said: ‘pearls before swine’?
ANSWER: If your explanations provoke mockery, don’t offer explanations. It would be better to pray for those people. The truths of Christianity can’t be forced on others; they have to be accepted freely. But if these people ask you questions, you have to answer, but consider why they asked the question. It is important to capture the right moment, when they will listen to you attentively and with a desire to understand. You also have to take into account the fact that your explanations might really be unconvincing. It wasn’t by accident that Christ said: ‘Don’t be teachers.’ If you yourself would really be a carrier of the truths of Christianity, your explanations would be convincing. To ‘cast your pearls’ means to speak words without confirming them by your life. Whether our words are pearls or the truth depends not on those who hear us, but on us ourselves.”
+ Father Dmitrii Dudko, Our Hope, pg. 22
