Just so you know, I'd love to have additional seed sowers come along with me on my witnessing excusions, but right now, I don't have a real structured "team" per se. I've been contacted by a couple of others from MyFishingHole.com, but so far, nothing has materialized. I've been going out to my personal fishing holes (sometimes with a brother from our Prison Ministry Group "Forgiven Choices) about every other week this summer.
I will be co-teaching an 8 week home-group based version of The Way of the Master on Friday evenings, starting on Sept 14, with a brother who attends a different church.
Tenatively, here are some ideas for upcoming outreaches
1. Evergreen State Fair - Monroe Fairgrounds - Aug 23 through Sept 3.
2. Feed Homeless in Seattle and/or Everett
3 Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival - Sept 1-2
4. Weekday early-morning or lunchtime outing to Snohomish County Court (witness to Jurors or others transacting business.)
God bless...
Monday, August 27, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Edmonds Tasted Sweet
I went to the "Taste of Edmonds" festival a couple of weeks ago, and it was really nice. I handed out a hundred or so tracts, and got into a long one-on-one with a Buddhist man (I think he was originally from Russia.)
It was a real blessing to watch people giggle as they read the "101 of the World's Funniest One Liners" tract.
Several people had their spirits lifted by the "One Million Dollar Bill" tract.
God bless...
It was a real blessing to watch people giggle as they read the "101 of the World's Funniest One Liners" tract.
Several people had their spirits lifted by the "One Million Dollar Bill" tract.
God bless...
Sunday, July 15, 2007
The Worlds Greatest Optical iLLusion
I went to Mukilteo beach and handed out about 50 of the "Worlds Greatest Optical Illusion" tracts (from http://www.livingwaters.com) last night. The LORD is reaching out to people from all kinds of backgrounds. There were some muslims that accepted tracts, some native Americans, and some Asians. God loves all people.
Two interesting things: 1) a nerdy guy said, "hey, this is the blah, blah, blah spiral, when he saw the front of the tract."
2) after walking down the beach, and handing tracts to most people, as I walked back the other way, I noticed several people reading the tracts. That is just a wonderful blessing.
God bless...
Two interesting things: 1) a nerdy guy said, "hey, this is the blah, blah, blah spiral, when he saw the front of the tract."
2) after walking down the beach, and handing tracts to most people, as I walked back the other way, I noticed several people reading the tracts. That is just a wonderful blessing.
God bless...
Monday, June 04, 2007
International Fight League
Ron and I handed out about 250 tracts. Again, a warm smile and a hearty "Have a great time at the fights tonight" made the tracts easy to give away. At one point a guy slapped a couple of tracts out of my hand as I tried to hand them to him. It was my fault, I didn't realize he was serious when he said he didn't want the Million Dollar Bill and I tried to hand him a Zero.
At one point, the Will-Call line backed up, and I felt led by the Spirit to begin preaching. What I began with immediately drew in hecklers and one gal began to blaspheme heavily as the topic turned to eternal matters.
Here's what I said...
Since 1979, there have been approximately 30 deaths, due to professional boxing.
There are conflicting numbers regarding Ultimate Fighting. Some reports say there have been no (zero) deaths due to Ultimate Fighting, others say that two to four deaths can be attributed to ultimate fighting.
More people die from car crashes and drinking, and other things. My point is that everyone has to die someday. Death is the only 100% statistic. Ten out of ten people die. So the million dollar question you want to be asking yourself is, "Where will you go when you die?" Are you good enough to go to heaven?
Would you consider yourself to be a good person?
Have you ever lied? That would make you a liar. Have you ever stolen anything? That would make you a thief. Have you ever used God's name in vain? That's called blashpemy. Have you ever looked at someone with lust? That would make you an adulterer of the heart. If you've admitted to breaking these four of the ten commandments, then by your own admission you'd be a lying, thief and a blasphemous, adulterer at heart. When you stand before God on judgment day, you'd be guilty, just like the rest of us. Because you'd be guilty of crimes against God, you'd deserve hell. But God doesn't want that for you. Neither do I, that's why I'm here, because I care about you.
But God did something so that we can avoid hell. 2000 years ago, God became a man in Jesus Christ. Jesus was crucified on a cross to pay the penalty for your sins. When he died, they buried him in a tomb, but he didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead and defeated death; he conquered death once and for all.
Now, if you will repent and put your trust in Jesus Christ, God will give you the gift of salvation and eternal life. Please don't wait, don't put it off, there's nothing more important than your eternal salvation, and none of us knows the day of our death, so get right with God today.
Thanks for listening and God bless you guys...
God bless...
At one point, the Will-Call line backed up, and I felt led by the Spirit to begin preaching. What I began with immediately drew in hecklers and one gal began to blaspheme heavily as the topic turned to eternal matters.
Here's what I said...
Since 1979, there have been approximately 30 deaths, due to professional boxing.
There are conflicting numbers regarding Ultimate Fighting. Some reports say there have been no (zero) deaths due to Ultimate Fighting, others say that two to four deaths can be attributed to ultimate fighting.
More people die from car crashes and drinking, and other things. My point is that everyone has to die someday. Death is the only 100% statistic. Ten out of ten people die. So the million dollar question you want to be asking yourself is, "Where will you go when you die?" Are you good enough to go to heaven?
Would you consider yourself to be a good person?
Have you ever lied? That would make you a liar. Have you ever stolen anything? That would make you a thief. Have you ever used God's name in vain? That's called blashpemy. Have you ever looked at someone with lust? That would make you an adulterer of the heart. If you've admitted to breaking these four of the ten commandments, then by your own admission you'd be a lying, thief and a blasphemous, adulterer at heart. When you stand before God on judgment day, you'd be guilty, just like the rest of us. Because you'd be guilty of crimes against God, you'd deserve hell. But God doesn't want that for you. Neither do I, that's why I'm here, because I care about you.
But God did something so that we can avoid hell. 2000 years ago, God became a man in Jesus Christ. Jesus was crucified on a cross to pay the penalty for your sins. When he died, they buried him in a tomb, but he didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead and defeated death; he conquered death once and for all.
Now, if you will repent and put your trust in Jesus Christ, God will give you the gift of salvation and eternal life. Please don't wait, don't put it off, there's nothing more important than your eternal salvation, and none of us knows the day of our death, so get right with God today.
Thanks for listening and God bless you guys...
God bless...
Monday, May 21, 2007
24 Hours of Praise was Glorious
God bless Rob for initiating the 24 Hours of Praise at our church this Friday and Saturday.
God bless those weary souls that were still singing and praying at 4:00am when I came on duty. All went well, except for the last song, in which I played, "Ancient of Days". Boy do I need more practice with that one.
Thank God for Pastor Kelly and Pastor Jerry and their faithfulness.
God bless...
God bless those weary souls that were still singing and praying at 4:00am when I came on duty. All went well, except for the last song, in which I played, "Ancient of Days". Boy do I need more practice with that one.
Thank God for Pastor Kelly and Pastor Jerry and their faithfulness.
God bless...
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Making Plans Concrete
I'm looking to solidify what was tentative.
Anyone want to meet at Everett Train Station from 5-6pm on Friday afternoon?
Let me know.
God bless...
Anyone want to meet at Everett Train Station from 5-6pm on Friday afternoon?
Let me know.
God bless...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Friday, May 04, 2007
Tracting Snoho County Court
There were a number of jurors wandering around, as well as many others scurrying to transact business. The Seven Dollar bills went out well. One late middle-aged juror, handed the tract back to me and said, "no I don't want the Gospel." Very sad...
All in all, it was a beautiful way to spend the lunch time. It was sunny, but still brisk.
God bless...
All in all, it was a beautiful way to spend the lunch time. It was sunny, but still brisk.
God bless...
Monday, April 30, 2007
LinuxFest Northwest
Seven Dollar Bills go over well with geeks.
It was neat talking with various rock stars of the Linux world.
Tim Maher - Consultix (SPUG fame)
ActiveState - Perl
etc.
And it was a nice time spent with my son.
btw, here's what I might have said, if I'd have gotten the chance:
Hello, if I could have your attention for just a moment. My name is Keith and I'm a software engineer for medical company in Bothell. Just a thought for you while you enter the expo. One axiom of software quality is "The earlier in your SDLC that you discover defects in your software, the easier and cheaper it is to fix them.
That same principle is at work in our daily lives. Example, what is one of the first things you do in the morning when you get up? You probably go look in the mirror to see what damage was done the night before, so you can take corrective action.
You can even extend this principle to life in general. Think of it like this, when you die, and we're all going to die; death is the only 100% statistic, we're all going to have to face a final-inspection. I know this isn't something we typically talk about or even think about too much. Our tendency is to wait until its too late to think about these things.
But, the million dollar questions are, "Where will you go when you die?" Are you good enough to go to heaven? Would you consider yourself to be a good person?
We can do early testing, and examine ourselves in the mirror of the Ten Commandments and know how we'll do on judgement day. So here goes. 9th, 8th, 3rd, 7th.
When God reviews the syslog of your life, will you be innocent or guilty? If you've admitted to violating any of these four of the Ten Commandments, (and there are six more where those came from), then you'd be a lying thief and a blasphemous adulterer at heart. You'd be guilty like the rest of us. Because you'd be guilty of crimes against a Holy and Righteous Eternal God, the punishment is an awful and terrible eternal punishment, and that's called Hell. But God doesn't want that for you, so God solved that problem...for us.
Two thousand years ago, God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ. God entered the human race in Jesus. He was born of a virgin and he lived a sinless perfect life. But they crucified Him. They nailed him to a cross where he bled and died a horrible death... not for anything he had done. He died to take your and my punishment upon himself on that cross. Its like this, you and I did the crime, and Jesus paid our fine. After He died, they buried him in a tomb, and three days later he rose from the dead. He defeated death once and for all of us.
Now, we can go to heaven not because we're good enough or could ever deserve it, but because we can be forgiven because our fine has been paid. The Bible says there are two steps you must take to receive that forgiveness. First is repent. That's just Bible talk for change your mind. Change your mind about sin, and turn away from it and turn to God for mercy. Step two is Trust. Put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection as sufficient payment for your crimes.
When you do that God will give you the gift of eternal life. You'll pass from death to life, from darkness to light. God himself will take up residence in your life. That's what it means to be Born Again.
This is the true Open Source. Salvation is open to anyone and Jesus is the Source of life. Please don't wait, don't put it off. There's nothing more important than your eternal salvation, and none of us know's the day of our death. So get right with God today.
God bless...
It was neat talking with various rock stars of the Linux world.
Tim Maher - Consultix (SPUG fame)
ActiveState - Perl
etc.
And it was a nice time spent with my son.
btw, here's what I might have said, if I'd have gotten the chance:
Hello, if I could have your attention for just a moment. My name is Keith and I'm a software engineer for medical company in Bothell. Just a thought for you while you enter the expo. One axiom of software quality is "The earlier in your SDLC that you discover defects in your software, the easier and cheaper it is to fix them.
That same principle is at work in our daily lives. Example, what is one of the first things you do in the morning when you get up? You probably go look in the mirror to see what damage was done the night before, so you can take corrective action.
You can even extend this principle to life in general. Think of it like this, when you die, and we're all going to die; death is the only 100% statistic, we're all going to have to face a final-inspection. I know this isn't something we typically talk about or even think about too much. Our tendency is to wait until its too late to think about these things.
But, the million dollar questions are, "Where will you go when you die?" Are you good enough to go to heaven? Would you consider yourself to be a good person?
We can do early testing, and examine ourselves in the mirror of the Ten Commandments and know how we'll do on judgement day. So here goes. 9th, 8th, 3rd, 7th.
When God reviews the syslog of your life, will you be innocent or guilty? If you've admitted to violating any of these four of the Ten Commandments, (and there are six more where those came from), then you'd be a lying thief and a blasphemous adulterer at heart. You'd be guilty like the rest of us. Because you'd be guilty of crimes against a Holy and Righteous Eternal God, the punishment is an awful and terrible eternal punishment, and that's called Hell. But God doesn't want that for you, so God solved that problem...for us.
Two thousand years ago, God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ. God entered the human race in Jesus. He was born of a virgin and he lived a sinless perfect life. But they crucified Him. They nailed him to a cross where he bled and died a horrible death... not for anything he had done. He died to take your and my punishment upon himself on that cross. Its like this, you and I did the crime, and Jesus paid our fine. After He died, they buried him in a tomb, and three days later he rose from the dead. He defeated death once and for all of us.
Now, we can go to heaven not because we're good enough or could ever deserve it, but because we can be forgiven because our fine has been paid. The Bible says there are two steps you must take to receive that forgiveness. First is repent. That's just Bible talk for change your mind. Change your mind about sin, and turn away from it and turn to God for mercy. Step two is Trust. Put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection as sufficient payment for your crimes.
When you do that God will give you the gift of eternal life. You'll pass from death to life, from darkness to light. God himself will take up residence in your life. That's what it means to be Born Again.
This is the true Open Source. Salvation is open to anyone and Jesus is the Source of life. Please don't wait, don't put it off. There's nothing more important than your eternal salvation, and none of us know's the day of our death. So get right with God today.
God bless...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The Blue Man Group Concert
On Friday evening, Ron and I went to the Blue Man Group concert at the Everett Events Center. We handed out over 400 tracts. We were blessed by the responses. Interestingly, as we warmly greeted the concert-goers, they were eager to receive the tracts. In fact, the tracts almost gave themselves away. Praise the LORD.
God bless...
God bless...
Monday, January 22, 2007
Time Warp
Halloween 2006 -- I love to hand out tracts to trick-or-treaters. I handed out 25 tracts from http://www.customtractsource.com. Whew, the young ones loved them. They reached for them over the bowl of candy.
God bless...
God bless...
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Sunny Saturday Afternoon -- HS Football Playoff
My cheeks were stinging after being out in the sun all afternoon, two Saturdays ago. We haven't had many sunny days, but the LORD gave a great day for passing out tracts at the Archbishop vs. Hoquaim playoff game at Everett Memorial Stadium.
Responses were great among the 250 spectators who received Million or Billion Dollar Bills and Round-TUIT tracts. It is encouraging to see those who have received tracts, actually read them.
God bless...
Keith
Responses were great among the 250 spectators who received Million or Billion Dollar Bills and Round-TUIT tracts. It is encouraging to see those who have received tracts, actually read them.
God bless...
Keith
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
A Weekend the LORD Filled
This past weekend was a total blessing from beginning to end.
Friday at lunch I went down to the Everett Train station and passed out tracts, and engaged several people in one-on-ones. Then I stopped by the Artesian Well on 164th and passed out a few tracts, and talked with a couple of people.
Saturday was restful (I was a little bummed about missing the mens Bible study), but sleeping in felt good. Saturday evening was our regularly scheduled Prison Ministry (Forgiven Choices) meeting. Wonderful worship, excellent Bible study by Bill and a great time of communion and after-glow.
Sunday morning church at Calvary Lake Stevens was a blessing, I was saddened to hear that Pastor Jerry was in pain. I've been praying for him.
Sunday afternoon was so nice to spend with my youngest son Daniel. We went to ToysRUs and bought him an RC "Drift Racing" Nissan 350ZX car.
Then, Sunday evening visiting Calvary Chapel South Everett at the Willis Tucker Park Activity Center was sweet. I am so praying that the LORD will do a work in our community. You know it needs it if you read any of the previous posts. God bless Calvary Chapel South Everett. The young pastor there (Joel) really preached it up good! God bless the pastor and his family and all those attending. May they reach out for the LORD.
God bless...
Friday at lunch I went down to the Everett Train station and passed out tracts, and engaged several people in one-on-ones. Then I stopped by the Artesian Well on 164th and passed out a few tracts, and talked with a couple of people.
Saturday was restful (I was a little bummed about missing the mens Bible study), but sleeping in felt good. Saturday evening was our regularly scheduled Prison Ministry (Forgiven Choices) meeting. Wonderful worship, excellent Bible study by Bill and a great time of communion and after-glow.
Sunday morning church at Calvary Lake Stevens was a blessing, I was saddened to hear that Pastor Jerry was in pain. I've been praying for him.
Sunday afternoon was so nice to spend with my youngest son Daniel. We went to ToysRUs and bought him an RC "Drift Racing" Nissan 350ZX car.
Then, Sunday evening visiting Calvary Chapel South Everett at the Willis Tucker Park Activity Center was sweet. I am so praying that the LORD will do a work in our community. You know it needs it if you read any of the previous posts. God bless Calvary Chapel South Everett. The young pastor there (Joel) really preached it up good! God bless the pastor and his family and all those attending. May they reach out for the LORD.
God bless...
Monday, September 25, 2006
I Met Ray Comfort
This was supposed to be a weekend of watching football, and street witnessing. Well, the streetwitnessing came to pass, in Huntington Beach California and I did watch some Pop Warner football, but I missed my nephew's high school football game.
I did end up meeting Ray Comfort, after he finished preaching the Gospel in the open air, at the street vendor fair that meets at the Huntington Beach pier on Saturdays. I handed out dozens of tracts, and had several interesting one-2-one encounters.
It was a great weekend with my mom and dad and sister and nephew. I also got to see my old Pop Warner football coach and his family.
On Sunday we attended E.V. Free church in Fullerton.
God bless...
I did end up meeting Ray Comfort, after he finished preaching the Gospel in the open air, at the street vendor fair that meets at the Huntington Beach pier on Saturdays. I handed out dozens of tracts, and had several interesting one-2-one encounters.
It was a great weekend with my mom and dad and sister and nephew. I also got to see my old Pop Warner football coach and his family.
On Sunday we attended E.V. Free church in Fullerton.
God bless...
Monday, September 18, 2006
Summer Recap
The LORD has provided several opportunities this summer to pass out tracts and witness for Him:
- The Evergreen State Fair in Monroe (the coworker from Philips)
- The Taste of Edmonds festival (the Jewish young man, and the beauty queens who liked the curved illusion tracts.)
- [Multiple] The water well on 164th in Lynwood (met pastor Byungwoo Choi, and Mike who needed prayer for bladder and colon cancer)
- [Multiple] The Snohomish County Courthouse (the lady who talked my ear off about history and the labor movement.)
- [Multiple] The greenbelt trailhead (the latest was three guys in the little SUV who tried to shew me away, and I got the chance to speak with them anyways.)
- Mukilteo beach passing out tracts (the Round Tuit)
- [Multiple] Passing out tracts at fast food drive through windows.
My comfort factor was really stretched, and I didn't have quite as many one2one encounters this summer because of the "chaos on the hill" as mentioned in an earlier blog entry, but I believe God wants me to get the message out, even if I haven't completely overcome my fears and hang-ups. So I heavily used the written word to get the message out this summer.
As this summer comes to an end, I pray that next week, the LORD will send me on a few more witnessing missions, maybe to the Everett train station. I have been feeling his tug on my heart to get back out in the thick of things, in terms of giving out food to the poor.
God bless...
Friday, August 11, 2006
Tough Communicating
We've had a Japanese exchange student staying with us for the past week and a half. He is from a city called Hekinan. He's a nice kid, but kinda quiet. Some things he's done seem a little rude, but our two cultures are certainly different.
I had the opportunity to (in a VERY brief way) share the Gospel with him this afternoon as I was driving him and his friend Masaru home. I asked him if he had told a lie, and he admitted to doing that. I asked him if he had ever taken anything that didn't belong to him. He said no. I said, "what about the music you were asking my son to burn to CD for you?" I asked him if he had ever dishonored or disobeyed his parents. I said, "have your parents ever had to say No, No to you?" No he said.
I told him about Jesus, and how he had died and come back to life for him to pay the fine for his crimes.
They didn't seem to totally understand, but I was blessed to have the opportunity.
God bless...
I had the opportunity to (in a VERY brief way) share the Gospel with him this afternoon as I was driving him and his friend Masaru home. I asked him if he had told a lie, and he admitted to doing that. I asked him if he had ever taken anything that didn't belong to him. He said no. I said, "what about the music you were asking my son to burn to CD for you?" I asked him if he had ever dishonored or disobeyed his parents. I said, "have your parents ever had to say No, No to you?" No he said.
I told him about Jesus, and how he had died and come back to life for him to pay the fine for his crimes.
They didn't seem to totally understand, but I was blessed to have the opportunity.
God bless...
Thursday, July 13, 2006
As of 6/22/2006 - School's Out
Now that school is out, and the neighborhood kids (high school aged kids, that is) are out of school, they have been congregating at a green-belt trail that is right behind my house. Yesterday evening, I spent a total of over an hour, during two separate one2one and group witnessing/Bible sessions with approximately 16 different kids. I don't appreciate the activities the kids partake of down on the green-belt, but I'm glad for the opportunity that the LORD gives me to witness and share my faith. Please do pray for boldness and compassion for me, and peace for my wife. She's kind of uncomfortable with me going down into the "pot and beer pit".
God bless...
God bless...
Friday, June 30, 2006
Chaos On The Hill
I got home late from work. While we were relaxing in the big room, after having eaten pizza, we heard a ruckus outside, so I went toward the front door to investigate. Immediately, my son said, "no dad, don't go out there." "I'm only going to see what's going on", I said. But there was something going on; a large group of teens, many of whom I had spoken with before were walking around the corner, and down the hill, on our street. As I watched, one young man began to pee on the neighbor's lawn. Again, my son said, "don't go down there dad." He was insistent, but I said, "I have to." He said, "just call the police." I said, "Okay, I'll call the police, bring me the phone." I called 911, and reported drunk and disorderly to my address, and they said they would send someone right out.
I grabbed a stack of tracks, and the mp3 player and a camera, so I could record what took place. As I walked down toward the group of teens, one whom I had witnessed to last week, was pushing Quincy around. Some other teens split them up, and I said hi to Quincy, and told him he ought to go home. Kyle said something to me, and I began to relate to him how I was so sad the other day, seeing him so high that he couldn't talk. He went ballistic. I don't quite understand why. I asked him if he remembered me praying for him, he didn't even remember. At some point, he said something about the police, and I responded, "They've already been called."
The extremely drunk one, who was belligerent to everyone came up to me and said "preacher man, go away, no one wants to listen to you." This drunk guy was a tall young man, who earlier in the week when I witnessed to him, although he was quiet, was resistant to the Gospel. Now was downright antagonistic; even threatening. "The cops have been called", I said.
I went around to each of the kids, who I hadn't witnessed to before, and handed them tracts. I tried to witness to Ashley, but the tall antagonistic kid, pulled her away, and said, "don't listen to him."
There was a girl sitting on a guy's lap in the car that was parked there, and they were making out in a very lewd and lascivious manner. I handed him a tract, and then said "Here young lady, have you gotten one of these yet?" She took it. I believe they separated at that point, I didn't want to hang around and find out what was really taking place in the front seat of that car.
Then I began to speak with a girl named "Angie?" and handed her a tract. I asked her if I could share the Gospel with her, and if she had a Christian background. She proceeded to tell me how she believed in God and had a relationship with God and had asked Jesus Christ into her heart. I asked her if she was going to heaven when she died. She said yes, and I asked how she new that. On what basis will you go to heaven, I asked, but she didn't get what I was asking. I said, "Would you consider yourself to be a good person?". She said yes. I went through lying, and although she admitted to having lied, she wouldn't call herself a liar. I asked about stealing, and she admitted she had, but wouldn't call herself a thief; I helped her out. I asked her if she had lusted, she came unglued and called me a child abuser, and pervert. I said, well you've admitted to being a liar and a thief, and she was ready to tear me apart. I said, "Have you ever hated? because Jesus, the one you said you believed in, said hate was the same as murder. " She said, "I'm going to kill you." Someone, I think Quincy grabbed her and pulled her away.
Kyle and the tall angry kid, were totally blaspheming and denegrating our LORD. At this point, Kyle saw that I was carrying the mp3 player, and he said "Oh no, no you don't, no way..." He grabbed it out of my hand and pulled the battery out of it. Too bad for him, that didn't delete what was already recorded.
Then the tall angry kid, started in on me, and told me how he was going to break my glasses. I told him I wouldn't fight back, no matter what he did. He just ranted and raved at me. All the while, un-beknownst to me, my wife and boys were standing in my yard with baseball bats in their hands. Anyways, the LORD protected me, and "Perfect love casts out all fear", in my wife and boy's case.
I started to read John chapter 3 aloud, and after a few verses, the police showed up.
No one was arrested, but parents were called. Sadly though, some of the parents either couldn't be reached, or others were indeed at parties -- probably drunk themselves, so several of the kids had to be taken home by the police.
VERY DISCONCERTING... Especially, when the kids were trying to blame the whole thing on me preaching at them, and the cops said, "you were probably part of the problem. Please leave."
God bless...
I grabbed a stack of tracks, and the mp3 player and a camera, so I could record what took place. As I walked down toward the group of teens, one whom I had witnessed to last week, was pushing Quincy around. Some other teens split them up, and I said hi to Quincy, and told him he ought to go home. Kyle said something to me, and I began to relate to him how I was so sad the other day, seeing him so high that he couldn't talk. He went ballistic. I don't quite understand why. I asked him if he remembered me praying for him, he didn't even remember. At some point, he said something about the police, and I responded, "They've already been called."
The extremely drunk one, who was belligerent to everyone came up to me and said "preacher man, go away, no one wants to listen to you." This drunk guy was a tall young man, who earlier in the week when I witnessed to him, although he was quiet, was resistant to the Gospel. Now was downright antagonistic; even threatening. "The cops have been called", I said.
I went around to each of the kids, who I hadn't witnessed to before, and handed them tracts. I tried to witness to Ashley, but the tall antagonistic kid, pulled her away, and said, "don't listen to him."
There was a girl sitting on a guy's lap in the car that was parked there, and they were making out in a very lewd and lascivious manner. I handed him a tract, and then said "Here young lady, have you gotten one of these yet?" She took it. I believe they separated at that point, I didn't want to hang around and find out what was really taking place in the front seat of that car.
Then I began to speak with a girl named "Angie?" and handed her a tract. I asked her if I could share the Gospel with her, and if she had a Christian background. She proceeded to tell me how she believed in God and had a relationship with God and had asked Jesus Christ into her heart. I asked her if she was going to heaven when she died. She said yes, and I asked how she new that. On what basis will you go to heaven, I asked, but she didn't get what I was asking. I said, "Would you consider yourself to be a good person?". She said yes. I went through lying, and although she admitted to having lied, she wouldn't call herself a liar. I asked about stealing, and she admitted she had, but wouldn't call herself a thief; I helped her out. I asked her if she had lusted, she came unglued and called me a child abuser, and pervert. I said, well you've admitted to being a liar and a thief, and she was ready to tear me apart. I said, "Have you ever hated? because Jesus, the one you said you believed in, said hate was the same as murder. " She said, "I'm going to kill you." Someone, I think Quincy grabbed her and pulled her away.
Kyle and the tall angry kid, were totally blaspheming and denegrating our LORD. At this point, Kyle saw that I was carrying the mp3 player, and he said "Oh no, no you don't, no way..." He grabbed it out of my hand and pulled the battery out of it. Too bad for him, that didn't delete what was already recorded.
Then the tall angry kid, started in on me, and told me how he was going to break my glasses. I told him I wouldn't fight back, no matter what he did. He just ranted and raved at me. All the while, un-beknownst to me, my wife and boys were standing in my yard with baseball bats in their hands. Anyways, the LORD protected me, and "Perfect love casts out all fear", in my wife and boy's case.
I started to read John chapter 3 aloud, and after a few verses, the police showed up.
No one was arrested, but parents were called. Sadly though, some of the parents either couldn't be reached, or others were indeed at parties -- probably drunk themselves, so several of the kids had to be taken home by the police.
VERY DISCONCERTING... Especially, when the kids were trying to blame the whole thing on me preaching at them, and the cops said, "you were probably part of the problem. Please leave."
God bless...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Giving a Ride Home -- Telling About the Way Home
Last week, I had a couple of opportunities to give my son's friends rides home. During both rides, I told Steven and later Cody about the "Way" home. How to have eternal life. They both listened and seemed only slightly put out in talking with me.
God give us opportunities... We need to take them.
Pray up, Step Up, Speak Up.
God bless...
God give us opportunities... We need to take them.
Pray up, Step Up, Speak Up.
God bless...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
The Green-Belt Trailhead is an Attractive Parking Spot
Travis and Tim were sitting in their Honda which was parked next to the green-belt trailhead. I offered them Million Dollar bills and started a conversation with them. I told them that the bills were Gospel tracts, and asked if they knew what that was. They said no, so I explained the Gospel to them. They listened and were very interactive. Tim wasn't concerned enough to say he was planning on getting right with God. Travis seemed to take it all in, but I didn't perceive he was going to make any commitments either.
Therhan and his girlfriend were sitting in their Impala which was parked next to the green-belt trail head. I gave them each Million Dollar bills and was ableto share the Bad and Good News with them.
May the LORD continue to bring people literally to my backyard so that I can share the Bad News that we have all broken God's Law, and the Good News of the "fine being paid".
God bless...
Therhan and his girlfriend were sitting in their Impala which was parked next to the green-belt trail head. I gave them each Million Dollar bills and was ableto share the Bad and Good News with them.
May the LORD continue to bring people literally to my backyard so that I can share the Bad News that we have all broken God's Law, and the Good News of the "fine being paid".
God bless...
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