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Re: Street Corner Preaching
IMO, street preaching shows a great burden, but is not pratical for today. I work in a very public place and have talked to a number of people, anytime in the past street preaching comes up worldly people are very turned off. I think that our society has painted with a broad brush all street preachers to be crazies and hell fire preachers. I know its not fair, but that is what the perception seems to be.
I haven't done street preaching, but have done done knocking several times, which it seems the jehovahs witnesses have ruined for everybody- (not to mention door to door salesmen). To me the most proven way to build a church is through personal interaction and relationships with people. We don't like that because it takes time and process. However, those are the people who stick. I also like the idea of flyers, newpaper ads or other forms of "advertising". I think it goes back to the saying, "they don't care what you know (truth), until they know how much you care."
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"Resolved: That all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved, secondly: That whether or not anyone else does, I will." ~Jonathan Edwards
"The only man who has the right to say he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ." ~Dietrich Bonheoffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men." ~Leonard Ravenhill
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