The sign above is a reminder of one of the reasons we are out here--Hell is Real. If what the Lord did for us is not enough--if the call to be ambassadors for Christ is not enough--can we at least consider the plight awaiting a vast majority of people we see and meet each day?
Street preaching provides an opportunity to deal with situations we will never face settling on our lees, at ease in Zion. During the preaching, we had a man decide he wanted to preach his opposing view of Christ while we were preaching. Rather than have a war of words and create confusion, We stopped and let him finish his diatribe. Once he was finished, we addressed the crowd, as Elijah had on Mt. Carmel, to make a choice between the two "opinions." We are not frightened or disturbed about opposing viewpoints. If someone has something better than forgiveness of sin, reconciliation with God, eternal life and life more abundantly--for free, I'd love to hear it, (although, I have yet to have hear a better deal)!
One sobering note this week is the following. We had not been gone from
Park St. and the green more than an hour or so when a man was gunned
down not yards from where we were preaching. It was one of two
shootings that day in Hartford. (New England's rising star--yeah,
right!) The sobering thought is that the man who was killed may have
been in the crowd listening to the preaching not minutes before he
passed into eternity. I hope he was, and I hope he repented in his
heart and trusted Christ before he died. You just never know when that
appointment with death is.Thanks for praying for us. We appreciate it more than you know, and it is part of the labour of this ministry as well as those that hit the pavement.
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| ( Savannah Mul / Hartford Courant / June 14, 2014 ) |
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