I agree with what you say, but the original post was talking about the 2 videos (Bell vs. Friel). If you listen to the first thing that Bell says, he is talking about hearing someone yelling on a bullhorn and he hears "sin and hell and burn and repent, and then I hear the word Jesus"
So like I said in one of my earlier posts to this forum, I believe Bell's original intent was to work with those individuals who are yelling "sin and hell and burn and repent, etc..." And to help those individual understand that they may be doing more harm. But like you said in your post
So, I do believe in street preaching and sharing the gospel, However back to the original reason this forum was created, I feel that Friel compleatly missed the whole point of what Bell's video was all about. I 100% agree with what Bell said in his video, and if you have not watched it, I urge you to watch it, or go back and re-watch it.
Friel was attacking Bell and from what I understood was making false claims about the point that Bell was making in his video.
I really thought that was what this forum was about, the two videos and how they related. That is what I have been posting.
Again, I do think steet preaching is very nessessary, If it is done as you said in your post and not all the "HELLFIRE" stuff as you mentioned.
I have indeed watched both which is exactly why I'm bringing this topic up.
The truth of the matter is that Todd Friel did not produce
his video to attack Bell pre-emptively for the sake of being nasty, but rather as a counter to the statements that Bell and others are making that go against the
principles - not methods - of what scriptural evangelism is as the likes of Friel, Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron and others emphasise. NOOMA was already hitting Christian bookstores before Way of The Master Radio came on air.
Think back to what Friel said regarding the doctor analogy ask yourself which one do these two belong respectively?
We need look no further to the Bible itself for instruction regarding how to reach out to specific people groups (1 Corinthians 9:19-23), how to discern between true and false converts (Mark 4:1-20), what should be said and what should be withheld (Matthew 7:6), the nature and condition of the unsaved (Romans 3:9-20, 1 Corinthians 2:14) vs the saved (Ephesians 5:8-9), how we are to convict people of their sins (Romans 3:19-20, Romans 7), how the unsaved actually see themselves (Prov 20:6); the Bible is all we need.
Yes, each circumstance is different and unique, but all numbers regardless of varying value have their lowest common denominators. Don't just concentrate on the method, focus on the core principles behind it, and make sure that it evenly weighs against scripture (Acts 16:11); does it elevate man by appealing to his worldly, humanistic desires (1 Timothy 6:3-6) or does it glorify the holiness of God by contrasting it with our total depravity (Romans 8:6-8)?
I'm not trying to flame anyone here, but With the above in mind, it should be obvious to those familiar with both ministries and those involved in them as to who actually has the upper hand in terms of being more in line with the Biblical model of salvation and how this applies practically in our outreach.
I encourage others to share their thoughts as this is the Gospel we're talkng about which Christ has called us to live by, to share and also to
guard.
