Street-preaching - you dont know how tough it is!

Paul couldn't go anywhere in the
world in under three days for under $2,000.
Paul lived in a different world with
different streets. Paul didn't have to
compete with the 'Prosperty Gospel' preached
by Millionare pseudo-preacher.

The Time is Short, the Enemy is Strong
and our Lord expects us to do better than
going out on the streets making people mad
at Him. The Lord expects to WIN with us
working in the same direciton that He is going
NOT in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

Procyon, November 28, 2005 04:04 AM:
//I dont know whether any of you have done street-preaching//

1. Mistake 1: The PRIME DIRECTIVE of BULLETIN BOARDS:
Read before you write.

Street preaching is discussed in BB = Baptist Board, from time to time.
THose threads are still there.

Better ploy: say "I want to brag about my own street-preaching".
At least that is honest and straight forward.

2. Mistake 2: this is a DEBATE forum where people debate stuff.
And if you hadn't of made mistake #1, you would know there are
people here who think "God did NOT call you to be a street
preacher (in the USofA) because everytime God 'calls' one person
to be a street preacher, God has to call twelve other people to minister
to those harmed by the 'street preacher' "

3. My first calling of God is to be an Engineer. I work in
Industrial Automated System: smart machines that do industrial
processes. My job is attuned to a SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME. I'd never
design a 'street preacher' approach to soul winning. I'd design
one that WORKS. There are many more efficient ways of winning souls
to Christ, if that is one's goal. I suppose if one's goal is to
get beat up and to 'suffer for the Kingdom' then street preaching
is about as good as any method.

4. My second calling of God is to encourage God's other Workers,
especially full-time workers, to do a better job. There are lots
better ways to accomplish God's work than insulting people on the
streets

5. Procyon, posted November 28, 2005 04:45 AM:
//What an overwhelming response!//

Uh, it is the middle of the night in the USofA. All you can find
to respond to you in the USofA/middle-of-the-night is bored
night workers and druggies.
The response was 30 minutes after you posted. The response
wasn't overwhelming, it was a miracle.

6. Procyon, December 18, 2005 05:51 AM: //I wonder
how many of you still do streetpreaching//

BTW, the reason I didn't post on Nov 28 but now post
three weeks later was cause I figured this thread would die.
But if you really want to prolong your street preaching agony,
I'm called to help you, ah, err, well - speak against you.

6. I've searched the walls (21 years ago a 'bulletin board' was
called a 'posting wall') for 21 years reading people's testimonies.
Here is what i've found:

A. nobody was ever helped by drinking alcohol.
B. nobody was ever helped toward salvation by street preachers

So my conclusion is: Don't be a bartender or a street preacher

7. JohnV: //Unfortunately, there's no shortage of streetpreachers
who are doing more to drive folks further away from
the Lord that bringing them closer. And the worst thing is,
they don't realize they're doing it. //

Yep. But the problem is that most of the streetpreachers
will NOT let God correct them. Here we have seen 4 or 5 agreeing
with you on this matter, but I doubt if anybody will quit
insulting people driving on the roads and attending malls.
I guess they want to limit God in the ways that they can speak
to them. If God uses a Moderate (usually seen as a Liberal) to
speak His will to them, they will rebel every time. Their God
is to small. Many of the same people want to limit God to
one and only one Book (i.e. the KJV) - what a tiny-tiny God who
can't figure out how to tell his story in more than one Bible.

8. Let me tell a story. I've not told this yet.
A couple of times before Aug 2005 I'd had a guy pass me when I
was going to work. It also happned two times in August.
I call him 'flipper' cause he was flipping me off. Really rude,
The police say they can't do anything unless they see him do it.
And even if they ticket him or arrest him, no judge will do more than
fine him $30 or so, maybe. Anyway, it is a really poor form of
communication. Maybe he is trying to relate the stanine of his
IQ (i.e. he is in the lowest 1/9th of the IQs)?

A. I have a KIA RIO, a cheap Korean car. I drive right by
A GM Plant (scheduled to be closed now). I've been flipped before
driving by it by an informational picket. I was sorely tempted then
to go perform a facial massage, while explaining that I have an
American Car in my Driveway and am driving the foriegn car because
THE AMERICAN CAR IS BROKE Sometimes I think the sign is right:
DRIVE A FORIEGN CAR - PUT TEN AMERICAN WORKERS OUT OF A JOB. They
are talking 9 of the 10 out of a job are auto-repair persons, yes?
Well, anyway, Was flipper unhappy cause I drive a foriegn car.
The finger doesn't relay much information. Do I offend him because
of my foriegn car?

B. I have a magnetic yellow ribbon saying I'm praying for the
Troops in Iraq. Does this make him unhappy?

C. I have a bumper sticker that says:
I BELEIVE IN THE BIG BANG,
GOD SAID IT - BANG! IT HAPPENED
Does he not like creation theory?

Well, I took them all off except the KIA part which is
rather firmly afixed. He ignores me when He passes
in his Red Thunderbird Oklahoma license VOY-367.
I saw him in a store on 23 Sept. It was the BIG BANG bumper
sticker.

Caveat, street preaching in the USofA only
am i discussing here.

 

I had a friend, who travelled the world, preaching wherever he could find an audience. In Australia, he had great difficulty getting an audience. He had a bell in his travelling bag and decided to walk up and down ringing his bell for attention. He got strange stares, but still no crowd.

Now Aussies, back then, took their politics seriously. So, he started to chant: "Down with the Labour Party...Down with the Labour Party....."

He soon had an audience. A hostile one that started to encroach his preaching space. He was a quick thinker and as the crowd neared him, he stated: The Bible says, "Come unto me all ye that labour, and I will give you rest..." Down with that labour party. I say, down with that labour party. Jesus will give you the rest of heaven in your daily lives."

He got his audience.

Cheers,

Jim