A FORÇA DA PALAVRA EM UMA SOCIEDADE DE NÃO ESCUTA. A IMPORTÂNCIA DA PALAVRA DE DEUS À EVANGELIZAÇÃO A PARTIR DE JOSÉ COMBLIN

Abstract

The Church's evangelizing action is based on bringing Jesus to all people. The current context is very challenging for evangelizing action. We live in a society that is not very fond of listening, especially to the Gospel. The Church has never stopped using Sacred Scripture for evangelization, as it is the Word of God himself. The Word is, essentially, an instrument for the evangelization of the People of God. In this sense, we propose to reflect the importance of the Word of God in the light of José Comblin's reflection. For the development of ideas, we will use the Comblian work entitled The Strength of the Word as a reference. The aforementioned author was a priest, a Belgian theologian, living in Brazil, and knew how to live and reflect on the Word of God in the context of the Brazilian reality. To achieve this objective, this article is divided into two parts: in the first, the importance of the Word of God for the evangelizing mission of the Church will be exposed; in the second part, the thought of José Comblin will be shown, highlighting the importance of the Word of God in his theological work and its influence on an ecclesiology developed in the light of the Holy Scriptures.