Street Preaching

 I want to address an issue that may not be popular, especially here. The issue is street preaching. Most of the outreaching that we do as a church involves street preaching. Not witnessing and talking to real people. But preaching to cars with closed windows as they drive down a busy street. While street preaching may serve some purpose, it is not an effective way to win souls. IMHO.

Pastor Mitchell was not a big street preaching advocate. He was a proponent of personal evangelism and witnessing. The big outreach was the concert on Saturday night. But the next biggest outreach on Saturday was door to door witnessing. Taking a handful of flyers and knocking on doors in a neighborhood. Taking time to talk to people and to pray for people.

I would like to suggest that one of our assistant pastors would take some young guys out on a Saturday just to witness and to testify to people in the neighborhood. We know how to street preach. Do we know how to witness for Jesus?

So there it is. A challenge. To try going from yelling at cars to testifying of the gospel to people in need. Not just the homeless bums, but to follow Jesus and to bring the simple gospel to the poor of this community. 

Street preaching has it's place, but it only works if there are real people listening in person.