tattooedtzadik
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I know there is a pretty shrewd thinking running around Christian circles, Churches, etc.
The thinking that "you must evanglize" to be qoute "be saved" after all this is what many of the Street Preachers try to indoctrinate (in their open-air sermons) into potential converts.
Remember more often than not it sounds like a Street-Preacher is trying more often than not win more people to street preaching not Christianity. Notice the fact that they discriminate against people if they are Christians simply for the fact they are not out preaching. Wonder about hypocrisy Jesus talked about? There you have it.
The first problem I have is
Jesus Preached at....
The Temple (everyday), Synagogue, Marketplace (when necessary), on the Road, on beaches (calling fisherman and such), on hilltops, watering holes (woman at the well), not on street corners or college campuses like some extremists would have you believe.
I've developed a 10 year ministry plan for 2026-2036 that involves no street preaching. I am an ex-street preacher and noticed that street preaching actually gets the wrong kind of media attention with preachers being arrested, people getting offended, lack of diginity in the ministers. It's just a big giant mess. When dealing with cops and hecklers Street Preachers are not who they claim to be and often combative and stuck in their ways or overly dogmatic or too traditional.
Either way you look at it while this is a free country I have been kicked out of preaching at Malls and such due to being overly disruptive so I think the issue is that open-air preaching at least on street corners and odd ends turns into a serious legal issues with disrupting the peace, blocking a sidewalk, being on public property, etc.
Just one sneak peak of what I am saying is instead of Street Preaching I will be out in my ministry plans
Collaborating with Churches, doing Outreach, volunteer work, on the road ministering, visit/speak at homeless shelters or youth functions
instead of Street Preaching. Right now I am researching but currently I am condemning Street Preaching as I never see Jesus doing this nor the Apostles who spoke in Houses, Synagogues, on the road, and such. So think twice before your Church vehemently tells you to get out there and Evangelize since they offer no insight it is usually just unfounded legalism and remember that Street Preachers are mostly just wolves in sheep skin so no need to condemn yourself as a"lukewarm" Christian when they are just hypocrites anyway.
The thinking that "you must evanglize" to be qoute "be saved" after all this is what many of the Street Preachers try to indoctrinate (in their open-air sermons) into potential converts.
Remember more often than not it sounds like a Street-Preacher is trying more often than not win more people to street preaching not Christianity. Notice the fact that they discriminate against people if they are Christians simply for the fact they are not out preaching. Wonder about hypocrisy Jesus talked about? There you have it.
The first problem I have is
Jesus Preached at....
The Temple (everyday), Synagogue, Marketplace (when necessary), on the Road, on beaches (calling fisherman and such), on hilltops, watering holes (woman at the well), not on street corners or college campuses like some extremists would have you believe.
I've developed a 10 year ministry plan for 2026-2036 that involves no street preaching. I am an ex-street preacher and noticed that street preaching actually gets the wrong kind of media attention with preachers being arrested, people getting offended, lack of diginity in the ministers. It's just a big giant mess. When dealing with cops and hecklers Street Preachers are not who they claim to be and often combative and stuck in their ways or overly dogmatic or too traditional.
Either way you look at it while this is a free country I have been kicked out of preaching at Malls and such due to being overly disruptive so I think the issue is that open-air preaching at least on street corners and odd ends turns into a serious legal issues with disrupting the peace, blocking a sidewalk, being on public property, etc.
Just one sneak peak of what I am saying is instead of Street Preaching I will be out in my ministry plans
Collaborating with Churches, doing Outreach, volunteer work, on the road ministering, visit/speak at homeless shelters or youth functions
instead of Street Preaching. Right now I am researching but currently I am condemning Street Preaching as I never see Jesus doing this nor the Apostles who spoke in Houses, Synagogues, on the road, and such. So think twice before your Church vehemently tells you to get out there and Evangelize since they offer no insight it is usually just unfounded legalism and remember that Street Preachers are mostly just wolves in sheep skin so no need to condemn yourself as a"lukewarm" Christian when they are just hypocrites anyway.
