The Man Who High-Fived the Pope

Last updated on: November 19, 2014 at 2:56 pm by David Mills

The Man Who High-Fived the Pope 2014-11-19T14:56:29-04:00 David Mills

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Meet the Southern Baptist evangelist who high-fived the pope and feels a surprising, and encouraging, passion for Christian unity. Today’s Aleteia column, High-Fivin’ the Pope, begins:

He is probably known among Catholics almost entirely as the man who last July gave the Holy Father a high five. I happened to meet the Evangelical evangelist James Robison recently at a gathering to discuss a common project, and was surprised when he said, to a group mixing conservative Evangelicals and Catholics (two of us converts), “I’ve met the pope. I love that man.”

The high five, which left some Catholics I know muttering, he explained in the Huffington Post a few days afterward. At a three-hour meeting at the Vatican, Francis listened to several Evangelical leaders talk about their faith and their passion for evangelism. He then responded with “a dynamic evangelical message.” He “wanted everyone to have a personal life-changing encounter with Christ and enter into a personal relationship with Jesus and become bold witnesses for the Gospel. Religion is not the way; Jesus is.”

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