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The opinion of those friends is that I should study doctrine and work at the church for 5 years before attempting preaching or evangelizing.
The SBC pastor said someone who just became a Christian yesterday can evangelize today because God will provide him with what to say.
Presently, the open-air preaching subculture is a mess. As a loose-knit organization and as a growing organism, it's a spiritual train wreck. It functions unbiblically outside the authority of the local church and is led by self-appointed (or appointed by popular demand) quasi-leaders with absolutely no ecclesiastical authority over the people in the loose-knit subculture. I should know. I've been one of those "leaders."
The open-air preaching subculture is an unbiblical community in which some people sinfully idolize evangelism, especially open-air preaching and open-air preachers. There is a growing “groupie” mentality within the subculture toward those who are seen as leaders.
The open-air preaching subculture is an unbiblical community that in which some people hypocritically operate with the same pragmatism of "seeker" church models they openly revile. They put too much stock in the size of the crowd, the size of the event, the amount of opposition faced, and negative interaction with law enforcement when determining how effective or fruitful their time on the streets is.
The open-air preaching subculture is awash with men and women who are engaged in hypocritical, prideful, arrogant, haughty behavior. Some within the subculture insist they love the lost when their rhetoric on social media platforms expresses an open disdain, even hatred, for brothers and sisters in Christ. Members of the subculture are quick to deem others heretics or unsaved while showing themselves to be utterly unteachable and unwilling to receive the gentlest of correction, failing to understand the spirit with which such correction is given.
God does not speak only through "elders" or pastors.
If someone has a call what's wrong with getting it confirmed by the church you belong to? Nothing. Not every Tom, Dick and Harry is called to preach because they feel they should.He will speak to each of us if we will learn to believe and listen.
Only a proud soul will neglect the ministers God has appointed the church. Baptists especially have a long history of following the biblical practice of taking it to the church. It is sad when Enlighten philosophy influences us to the point we ignore scripture on this issue and choose American individualism.
"Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." Heb. 13.17
We also need to listen to the congregation as well as our Elders. (Matthew 18.17)
For a free book on church polity, completely Baptist and biblical, download it here: http://www.9marks.org/files/Polity.pdf
If someone has a call what's wrong with getting it confirmed by the church you belong to? Nothing. Not every Tom, Dick and Harry is called to preach because they feel they should.
Yours in the Lord,
jm
I am thinking about street preaching but how long should I study doctrine and the scriptures before doing it?
A SBC pastor told me right away if you feel called. A PCA pastor and a Anglican I know both said 5 years hard study minimum.
Thoughts?
The opinion of those friends is that I should study doctrine and work at the church for 5 years before attempting preaching or evangelizing.
The SBC pastor said someone who just became a Christian yesterday can evangelize today because God will provide him with what to say.
If you feel "the call", you had better answer it.
The only advice I can give is this:
Grow a thick skin.
Study and pray before you go preach.
I was always taught: "God does not call the equipted, He equipts the called".
If you want to "street preach", read Jeremiah and Lamentations, this will help to prepare you for you are about to undertake.
And the only reason I say study some before you go out, is that if you personally preach a message that is wrong, and somebody takes what you ahve taught, and teaches it to somebody else, and so on and so on. You will have to stand befoer the Almighty and answer for all those whom you might reach even indirectly.
When I was teaching Sinday school, after Sunday school was over, after the Sunday morning service was overm I began to study and prepare myself for the next weeks lesson just for that very reason.
Will you answer the call?
God Bless
Till all are one.
If you feel "the call", you had better answer it.
The only advice I can give is this:
Grow a thick skin.
Study and pray before you go preach.
I was always taught: "God does not call the equipted, He equipts the called".
If you want to "street preach", read Jeremiah and Lamentations, this will help to prepare you for you are about to undertake.
And the only reason I say study some before you go out, is that if you personally preach a message that is wrong, and somebody takes what you ahve taught, and teaches it to somebody else, and so on and so on. You will have to stand befoer the Almighty and answer for all those whom you might reach even indirectly.
When I was teaching Sinday school, after Sunday school was over, after the Sunday morning service was overm I began to study and prepare myself for the next weeks lesson just for that very reason.
Will you answer the call?
God Bless
Till all are one.
The church you are a member of, are they sending you out? Have you been approved by your Elders to preach?
Cross Encounters: A Call to Return to the Church: An Open Letter to the Open-Air Preaching Subculture
Unless you are approved and sent, don't go.
Yours in the Lord,
jm
I hope I am a 'churchy boy' considering we called to assemble with other believes making up one body. We proclaim the truth of the Gospel as believers individually and corporately. No believer is an Island set apart from other believers to worship. We are called the Body of Christ, not bodies of Christ. We are the Bride of Christ and not the brides of Christ. Together we stand, united in our federal head Jesus Christ.
Yours in the Lord,
jm
The church you are a member of, are they sending you out? Have you been approved by your Elders to preach?
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