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Originally Posted by coadie
But you are not Jesus. You seem to express a hostile attitude to people that don't track your canned cookie cutter approach.
You seem to be hung up on a fear of repulsion. The Holy Spirit draws people. You seem to think it is your style. It is also clear you haven't done your homework regarding history. history not your thang.
There was something weirdly compelling about those open-air meetings, held among the trees on warm summer evenings, with the flare of torches, the lilt of plaintive melodies, and the perfervid appeals of half-educated preachers to uneducated audiences
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Billy Sunday was saved on street preechin,
not bottled water compassionism.
Billy Sunday pretty much did everything you mock,
Every body is into Converstaional missional etc.
No he was loud and street corner. Inarticulate and sincere.
another emergent buzzword is relational. |
You seem to seem an awful lot. Usually, you're seeming is unfounded and wrong. Let me just go ahead and speak for myself -- thanks.
I am not Jesus. It's His teachings we emulate, His footsteps we follow, and His life we look to. That was pretty weak of a reply. One person uses Jesus to justify megaphone, drive-by evangelism, and then I explain what it was about, you reply I'm not Jesus. Guess we should be consistent when we want to use Jesus to justify our position shouldn't we
Indeed, the Holy Spirit draws people. Glad we agree on that. Now let's ask ourselves if that's how we approach evangelism.
You are also falsely pitting compassion against evangelism. Quite ingenuous and definitely unnecessary. Straw man?
As far as Sunday, his theology wouldn't jive with your own, nor his ecumenicalism with the RCC. I don't pattern on what is right based on the late-1800's preacher. You're also being dishonest with Sunday's typical set-up in a town he visited -- It was in a church house or a tent.
Still, I'm not necessarily "against" street preaching. I find it ineffective today, but that doesn't make it wrong -- more futility than anything. The specific street screamers I refer to are in most cities, with their taunting signs of God's judgement, and their screaming at people to get right or burn. I've chatted with them, I know their theology. They don't live in the cities, they commute in check their spiritual box for screaming at people. The crowds detest them, and because they usually gather during a ball game, parade, celebration, most are just plain annoyed. No one would follow them to a wilderness (John the Baptist), they'd just be happy if they went preaching in the wilderness
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