It behooves all committed Catholics to take a hard look at what the Evangelicals are doing right and to incorporate these principles into our own lives and into the life of the Church. The first area Catholics must reclaim is the principle of holiness, not just for the clergy and religious, but for every believer. Evangelicals understand that an encounter with the living Christ means they must be set apart for him. But being dedicated to Christ does not mean we should become sour faced saints. On the contrary, we should be the most joyful of all people on account of our position in Christ.
True holiness is winsome and cheerful.
One of the causes of the current crisis in the Church is a lack of authentic holiness. When individual Catholics resolve to live lives totally committed to Christ, heterodox teaching and divisions within the Body will begin to cease and the Church will be renewed. The second area where Catholics can learn from Evangelicals is how to evangelize. Catholics are way behind Evangelicals in this discipline. Our sluggishness in evangelizing is indicative of a spiritual malaise.