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June 25, 2004
The building blocks of evangelism
From Dan Pallotta's newsletter:
One does not need a great idea to create great change in this world. One does not need to be affiliated with a prestigious organization. One does not need to invent the next moveon.org or the next AIDSRide. Martin Luther King used nothing but the strength of his person to create a movement. He didn't have a clever name or slogan. He had no internet. He had no database. He had no media fund. Gandhi the same. Lech Walesa. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Caesar Chavez. Helen Keller. They didn't have websites. Yet look how much more they moved the world than we seem able with all our technology.
It is your conviction and your fire and your heat that has the power to transform. What is it that I care about? What is it that I can begin to do about it? Who can I talk to? How can I use my vocal chords? These are the important questions. What did I remain silent about today that I will not be silent about tomorrow? What paper can I write to? What person can I register to vote? And what person can I ask that person to register to vote?
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Yes, but what of Howard Dean? All politics aside, he moved the world with his use of technology but it was his personal expression of fire and heat that was his undoing. Their needs to be a huge measure of intuition about how your message comes across through all mediums.
