Street Preaching

[King Mob]

Street preaching makes a lot of common sense. When we consider Church preaching we can see clearly that this is simply preaching to the converted. How many un-saved people visit your Church on a typical Sunday. This is hard to accurately know unless we start asking everybody, which we certainly do not wish to do. I believe Churches should continue to preach as they do but also do street preaching.

Some will say that as people pass by they only get a short burst and only an odd one will stop and listen. It is all to do with what is being said as some street preachers get quite a few stopping to listen.

Giving out tracts as part of the preaching is important. These tracts need to be short and as modern as possible to catch the young. The young are the main people to attract and keeping their attention is vital. So please could you folks reading this give me some ideas on this very important subject.

Probably the best advice I could give is stop proselytizing.

 

[Robban]

Street preaching makes a lot of common sense. When we consider Church preaching we can see clearly that this is simply preaching to the converted. How many un-saved people visit your Church on a typical Sunday. This is hard to accurately know unless we start asking everybody, which we certainly do not wish to do. I believe Churches should continue to preach as they do but also do street preaching.

Some will say that as people pass by they only get a short burst and only an odd one will stop and listen. It is all to do with what is being said as some street preachers get quite a few stopping to listen.

Giving out tracts as part of the preaching is important. These tracts need to be short and as modern as possible to catch the young. The young are the main people to attract and keeping their attention is vital. So please could you folks reading this give me some ideas on this very important subject.

So there was this man who was not satisfied and thought more could be done.

So he rented a hall, he put up posters and notices a week,

Telling everyone they were welcome to his meeting.

So when the day came people started to trickle in, the hall got filled,

But at the end of the meeting it was empty.

So the next day, someone asked him,
"Well, how did it go."
"How did it go? I,ll tell you, but you won,t Believe me,

you should have been there, I tell you, the presence of the spirit was so powerful and intense, they could not sit still, they got up and left, one by one.
You should have been there, I tell you."

ps, should have been in the "Lighter thread"

 

[Episaw]

Everyone single Christian is a 'relationship' evangelist. Those that engage in street preaching are not doing it instead of 'relationship' evangelism - it's in addition to it.

Those who engage is street preaching should be applauded in my view - as long as it's an accurate gospel message delivered with grace and a genuine concern for those within ear-shot.

When I was in Bible College in the sixties, it was compulsory for students to go and do street preaching on a Saturday afternoon. We had to stand on a particular bit of road and yell as loud as we could whatever we felt to say.

In the early 90s, there were a group of christian students at the university I was studying at that used to stand in the Agora and preach the gospel to the students whilst they were having lunch.

No one complained and I am not sure if conversions were happening but one does not always know the outcome as this story shows.

One man used to go to the Kings Cross area of Sydney every day and hand out tracts. No conversions were apparent but he did not give up. After his death and a chance encounter by two people who were given tracts by him and who decided to try and find out others, they discovered that in all their research led them to 163,000 people had been saved as a result of receiving a tract from him.

Moderators please note. This was verbally told to me so there are no websites to reference.

 

[Episaw]

Probably the best advice I could give is stop proselytizing.

Thanks for the laugh as atheists in particular are dead keen evangelists. I have yet to be on any christian forum where there has not been atheists trying to convert the faithful to the religion of nothing.

 

[King Mob]

Thanks for the laugh as atheists in particular are dead keen evangelists. I have yet to be on any christian forum where there has not been atheists trying to convert the faithful to the religion of nothing.

Never made THAT mistake in my life.

 

[lismore]

Never made THAT mistake in my life.

Ah Mob, you're trying to be funny now

 

[Episaw]

Never made THAT mistake in my life.

is that so? Sorry to say, you are not the be all and end all of atheism.