Ash Way Park And Ride 2.1

This morning, we ventured to the Ash Way Park and Ride for the second time.   We had an absolutely wonderful experience handing out Gospel tracts and proclaiming the Gospel out loud (so to speak.)

Thomas and I had the opportunity to present the Gospel open-air, three or four times each.

We had one heckler, who told us to leave, but Thomas held his ground (The battle belongs to the Lord).

Praise God for His awesome goodness and grace to give a sinner like me the opportunity to present His Gospel to about twenty people at a time.

God bless...

Here's the text of my presentation...

Good morning, my name is Keith and I'm a Christian and I'd like to share a few thoughts with you.   Day in and day out, we get up, we get ready, we eat breakfast, and we head out the door for work. You're here this morning to catch a bus into the city to go to work.  I’ll be heading to work myself.   When you arrive at your destination, normally you’d be thinking about the day ahead of you, what tasks you need to accomplish today. But I want to plant this thought in your head, today when step off the bus, think of this.  Think about how someday you'll step off of planet earth and into eternity.  I'm talking about the ultimate statistic here.   Ten out of ten people die. Our lives are so precious to us. I urge you to consider your will to live, yet the jaws of death will swallow each of us someday. The Bible says that its appointed unto man once to die, and then comes the judgement and it says that God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness. So we all have an appointment with death, and after that we’ll stand before our Maker to give an account of our lives.  And the standard by which we’ll be judged is Righteousness.  That’s the standard, Righteousness, which means God is going to judge the heart.  So how can we know how we’ll measure up to that standard of Righteousness.  Well we can look at ourselves in the mirror (so to speak) of God’s Law, the Ten Commandments, and we can compare ourselves against that standard, and we will know how we will fare on the day of judgement.

The Law was presented here...

The Gospel was presented here...

I closed by pleading with each audience to repent and trust Christ and praying for them out loud...

A Busy Weekend at a Taste of Edmonds

The city of Edmonds is indeed a quiet, quaint little town, with a ferry dock, churches and lots of local pubs and eateries.   So the "Taste of Edmonds" festival fits in well with the mindset and mentality of citizens of Edmonds.   Also, Edmonds participates in Sister-City relationship with Hekinan Japan, so there were a number of Japanese high school students running around the streets.

Last evening and today became a battle to overcome fear, to step up on the box and proclaim the Gospel. Thankfully God spurred us on to the challenge.  Stepping up on the box felt like climbing mount Everest.  But it forced me to some intense prayer and reliance upon God for his strength and courage.

We handed Gospel tracts to a couple of girls and it turned out they were Christians, and we asked them to pray for us.  We open air preached two times last evening at the roundabout at the main intersection in Edmonds.   We had a couple of drive-by hecklers, but all in all it was a wonderful experience.

Then this morning, we open air preached once at the roundabout, at the main intersection in Edmonds.  We had one man come up and oppose our preaching the Gospel (saying he agreed with the message, but asked us to stop because we were too loud).   He asked that we stop so people could drink their coffee in peace and quite at the sidewalk cafe.   We told him that we were almost finished, but we weren't going to stop preaching the Gospel.   He left in a minor huff.

Then we capped it off with an open air message to the festival goers entering the front gate of the festival.   See my message here...

I feel very humbled to have the opportunity and privilege from God to proclaim the Gospel.   I have a long way to grow in my Gospel presentation, so hopefully the message will reach peoples hearts, even though the messenger is very weak.

We were very encouraged by multiple one-2-one conversations.   After we open-aired, we were approached by a couple of girls who attended Westgate Chapel.  One of the girls said she was a YWAM missionary to China.   They were very interested in what we were doing and how we were  preaching the Gospel in the open air.

God bless...

Disappointed with 'Churchianity'

Thursday evening movies at Willis Tucker park provided a prime opportunity to preach the Gospel this evening.   I was glad and overjoyed to be privileged to share the Gospel with over 15 teens this evening, before the movie started.   I handed out Seven Dollar Bill Gospel tracts, and I was very encouraged to be able to proclaim the message of everlasting life to the teens.   I was disappointed though, in one serious aspect of these encounters.   Knowing that I was among church-going youths, I handed them a Gospel tract and then tried to elicit the Gospel from them.   No one; not one single young person I spoke with could explain what I needed to do to receive eternal life from God.   Don't get me wrong, these were very nice young people.   During each encounter, when I could see them searching for words to explain the Gospel, and coming up blank, I would ask if I could explain it to them and they all graciously listened to the story of salvation.   I also explained how to be "Born Again", through faith in Jesus Christ and repentance toward God.   And I would finally thank them for listening and move on.

Tonight started even before I headed down to Willis Tucker park though.   I saw a black Ford Explorer parked down by the trail head, so I grabbed tracts and went down there.   I got to share the Law and the Gospel with Colin and Blake.   Colin was very engaged.  Blake said he went to Cedar Park Church, but he couldn't tell me what I need to do to be saved.   Here again, I pleaded with these young men, who were just getting ready to toke some legal non-marijuana stuff, to get right with God.  Colin kept saying something like I respect what you're saying, but I'm not religious.  I told him I wasn't religious either, and I wasn't trying to get him religious.   I was trying to urge him to consider his own mortality and his fate before a holy and righteous, eternal God.

Finally, this evening I saw a car parked down by the trail head, so I grabbed a Gospel tract, and had a nice conversation with Jeff who had spent ten years in Catholic school, but didn't know if there was a God.  He felt he didn't have enough experience in life yet to make that decision.  I encouraged him to believe in the Creator to whom we all have to give an account.  Jeff shook my hand when I left.

So the consistent theme from this evening is that the 'church', is not fulfilling its duty to preach the Gospel and to bring up children in the nurture and admonition of the LORD.

God bless...