This model resonates particularly well with Catholics. This model resonates well with Protestants. Evangelizers stay true to their task if they are themselves evangelized. Words are also proleptic , in that they can claim for us an identity we do not yet fully possess, as when the intern calls him or herself a doctor yet is still in the practice of appropriating medical skill. A third caution is that this model might neglect action as the way to fulfill the word.
Humans can lie, or fail to keep promises.
A danger of this model is that one may be tempted to think subordination means obedience to the world, whereas the Church serves the world by obeying God. It is easy to get co-opted by political movements and worldly values like consumerism. Another danger is secularism itself, which values human action but ignores the spiritual basis for Christian service. Actually, a spiritual foundation for service can prevent burnout , the discouragement that results when intractable social problems do not seem affected by one s efforts to help. Indeed, becoming organized, communal, holy, evangelical and serving all involve the Church in a process of education which not only informs a person, but forms him and her, and transforms as well.