Open-Air Preaching at the Indy 500!!!

[David Hunter]

Hi, y'all!! I was invited to the Indy 500 to evangelize and open-air preach, so I'd like to share a video I made that includes a small clip of me open-air preaching (more like public reading of scripture) along with sharing my thoughts and prayerfully it'll be encouraging for you! Just remember, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

I'm glad that worked out. God bless.

 

[David Hunter]

I'm glad that worked out. God bless.

Thank you, Michael!!!

 

[OceanPoet87]

Hi, y'all!! I was invited to the Indy 500 to evangelize and open-air preach, so I'd like to share a video I made that includes a small clip of me open-air preaching (more like public reading of scripture) along with sharing my thoughts and prayerfully it'll be encouraging for you! Just remember, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

That was really encouraging indeed. Thank you for sharing that video. I usually hate videos but that was great.

 

[David Hunter]

That was really encouraging indeed. Thank you for sharing that video. I usually hate videos but that was great.

I'm glad it was encouraging to you, and thank you for the encouragement to me! All to the glory of God for the advancement of His kingdom!

 

[1Tonne]

The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
I am glad you are a worker for God. Saving the lost.
I don't think that most believers realise what type of work you are doing when you go out there. It's like a soldier in the first wave of an attack and for this, you will be rewarded. What you do is hard and takes a lot of courage. More courage than what most believers have.

If you are a believer but are afraid to do this, pray for more love for God so that you honour what He says for us to do. And also pray for more love for the lost. The more love you have for them, the more you will want to warn them of the condemnation they are under.

Also, when evangelising often you will not see the results.
I had a friend that went door knocking with his 2 sons on Halloween, and he told me that he did not think what was done was very effective. He was disappointed. But last night I went to a sports game and spoke to a married couple who believe. We started to talk about evangelism, and they told me about a person with his 2 sons, who knocked on their door Halloween night and offered to give them lollies and then proceeded to tell them the Gospel. This couple said that they were highly encouraged and wished that they had that boldness too.
So even though my friend felt as though what he had done was pointless, it had encouraged this couple of believers. They still need more encouragement to speak boldly but I believe that in time, they will do it.

 

[rockytopva]

Remembering the old open air preacher Robert Sayers Sheffey as told by George Clark Rankin…. The famous Cripple Creek Campground was on that work. They have kept up campmeetings there for more than a hundred years. It is still the great rallying point for the Methodists of all that section. I have never heard such singing and preaching and shouting anywhere else in my life. I met the Rev. John Boring there and heard him preach. He was a well-known preacher in the conference; original, peculiar, strikingly odd, but a great revival preacher.

The rarest character I ever met in my life I met at that campmeeting in the person of Rev. Robert Sheffy, known as "Bob" Sheffy. He was recognized all over Southwest Virginia as the most eccentric preacher of that country. He was a local preacher; crude, illiterate, queer and the oddest specimen known among preachers. But he was saintly in his life, devout in his experience and a man of unbounded faith. He wandered hither and thither over that section attending meetings, holding revivals and living among the people. He was great in prayer, and Cripple Creek campground was not complete without "Bob" Sheffy. They wanted him there to pray and work in the altar.

He was wonderful with penitents. And he was great in following up the sermon with his exhortations and appeals. He would sometimes spend nearly the whole night in the straw with mourners; and now and then if the meeting lagged he would go out on the mountain and spend the entire night in prayer, and the next morning he would come rushing into the service with his face all aglow shouting at the top of his voice. And then the meeting always broke loose with a floodtide.

He could say the oddest things, hold the most unique interviews with God, break forth in the most unexpected spasms of praise, use the homeliest illustrations, do the funniest things and go through with the most grotesque performances of any man born of woman.

It was just "Bob" Sheffy, and nobody thought anything of what he did and said, except to let him have his own way and do exactly as he pleased. In anybody else it would not have been tolerated for a moment. In fact, he acted more like a crazy man than otherwise, but he was wonderful in a meeting. He would stir the people, crowd the mourner's bench with crying penitents and have genuine conversions by the score. I doubt if any man in all that conference has as many souls to his credit in the Lamb's Book of Life as old "Bob" Sheffy.

 

[Pioneer3mm]

at that campmeeting

Camp meeting.
- Outdoor/Open-Air Revival meeting..
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During the frontier days..in the 19th century.
- It is considered as..'The Second Great Awakening' in US.
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Camp meetings (& Circuit riders) had an impact/important role..
- in evangelizing/reaching..the unreached.

 

[David Hunter]

The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
I am glad you are a worker for God. Saving the lost.
I don't think that most believers realise what type of work you are doing when you go out there. It's like a soldier in the first wave of an attack and for this, you will be rewarded. What you do is hard and takes a lot of courage. More courage than what most believers have.

If you are a believer but are afraid to do this, pray for more love for God so that you honour what He says for us to do. And also pray for more love for the lost. The more love you have for them, the more you will want to warn them of the condemnation they are under.

Also, when evangelising often you will not see the results.
I had a friend that went door knocking with his 2 sons on Halloween, and he told me that he did not think what was done was very effective. He was disappointed. But last night I went to a sports game and spoke to a married couple who believe. We started to talk about evangelism, and they told me about a person with his 2 sons, who knocked on their door Halloween night and offered to give them lollies and then proceeded to tell them the Gospel. This couple said that they were highly encouraged and wished that they had that boldness too.
So even though my friend felt as though what he had done was pointless, it had encouraged this couple of believers. They still need more encouragement to speak boldly but I believe that in time, they will do it.

Thank you for this!!! Sounds a like Ray Comfort. Hahaha I just arrived in LA for the Ambassador's Academy with Living Waters! Prayers are appreciated!

 

[1Tonne]

Thank you for this!!! Sounds a like Ray Comfort. Hahaha I just arrived in LA for the Ambassador's Academy with Living Waters! Prayers are appreciated!

Wow. You are so lucky. I would love to go there. But the USA is way too far for me.
Will pray that what is taught goes in, is retained, and then overflows.

 

[David Hunter]

Wow. You are so lucky. I would love to go there. But the USA is way too far for me.
Will pray that what is taught goes in, is retained, and then overflows.

Thanks for your prayers! You never know, maybe someday you can attend! There was someone from Norway and John who leads the Living Waters Europe.