Street Preaching at the Indy 500

This past weekend we went out Street Preaching at the Indy 500 parade on Saturday and the race on Sunday, with the men going out Saturday night to Georgetown. We had groups from Chicago, Ohio, Michigan, New York and a few other places. Saturday went well we had plenty of Street Preaching and witnessing. We got out more tracts this year than we have in the past few years. We were in our normal spot, and where normally by 10:00 is packed this year was still not packed by the time the parade started at 1:00. On Sunday we went out to the race track and preached. We got into quite a few good conversations including with a smoking minister, who thought there was only 4 books in the entire Bible, couldn't tell you where the 10 commandments were, but we were wrong for being out there. We had one point where it got a little rough with a man throwing his beer all over us. We got out a lot more tracts than usual here also. All in all it was a good time.

Chicago

The past week we have been up in Chicago IL. Doing a revival meeting and street preaching on the weekends. On this past Saturday Pastor Teesdale from the church here started dealing with a young man about the Lord, after about forty-five minutes the young man knelt on the sidewalk and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour. Pastor Teesdale then spent thirty minutes more talking to the young man about what he should do once he had been saved.
A lot of decisions have been made this past week as my dad preached a revival meeting for the church up here.
Please pray for us as we will be street preaching again Saturday, and then we have the Indy 500 coming up next week where we will also be street preaching.

Why We As Christians Should Street Preach.

Here are some reasons why we as Christians should be willing to go out and Street Preach.

#1. Because Jesus Christ said to. Mark 16:15 Go ye into all the world and PREACH the gospel.

#2. Jesus Christ Street Preached Publickly. Matthew 4:23, 9:35, Luke 3:3, 9:6, And many other places.

#3. Paul inspired by the Holy Spirit said to. In Acts 20:20, 1 Corinthians 15:58, 2 Timothy 4:2.


#4. Paul Preached Publickly. Acts 9:29, 13:35, 16:13-15, 18:4, 22:1-16 along with many other
places.

#5. Many of the disciples and Christians in the Bible Preached Publickly.
Silas preached Acts 16:13-15.
Peter Acts 2:14-36, 4:8-12, 15:7.
Apollos Acts 18;26-28.
Timothy Acts 16:4-5.
John the Baptist Matthew 3:1.
Philip Acts 8:12.
Barnabas Acts 13:35.

We should be willing to Street Preach if our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did.
So many people say I want to be like Jesus but are to concerned about their image to get up and go out and Street Preach.

Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:2 to reprove and rebuke, that is the reason many people pastors included will not go out and preach the gospel to a world that is on it's way to hell.

A Letter To Young Men.

1 Timothy 3:1-7.
This passage may be directed at Bishops but it would be a good set of guidelines for a young man to live by.

1. v. 2. Says to be sober. We as young men should be sober. Sober means to be serious, solemn etc. We should not be foolish or loud, always goofing off, flippant, etc. Some other verses dealing with this subject. 1 Thess. 5:6,8. 1 Peter 1:13, 4:7, 5:8.

2. v.2. Says to be of good behavior. Behavior means Manner of behaving whether good or bad, in conduct, and manners. It is time that we learned to have manners around the table, at the church, in front of ladies and everywhere else. You say manners don't matter much, but they do when you have bad manners it shows almost a disrespect for those around us.

3. v.3. Says not greedy of filthy lucre. This says filthy lucre but it can apply to everything.
The Bible also says to not be greedy in Prov 15:27.

4. v.3. The Bible says to be patient here. We need to learn patience as a young man so we don't need to when we are older. It is a good virtue to learn. It also says it in Eccl. 7:8, Rom. 12:12, 1 Thess. 5:14, James 5:7-8.

5. v .3. The Bible says no not be covetous. You say coveting is a small thing it really doesn't matter to God. It's enough to send someone to hell as we see in 1 Corinthians 6:10. It is also important enough for God to mention it in the Law Exodus 20:17. Some more references Romans 7:7, Ephesians 5:5, 2 Timothy 3:2.

6. v. 7. It says to have a good report of them which are without. Do you have a good good report among your friends, the church people, the lost. Do they know that you are a Christian, and that you are a honest person who can be trusted. Prov. 15:30, Acts 6:3, 10:22, and 22:12. These 2 last places are where people had a good report among others. In Acts 6:3 it was important enough to have men of good report to take care of the widows.

Thanks for taking your time to read this. I should have another one up soon.

Sunday Morning Service

My dad preached the morning service today on hell, and Praise the Lord, a boy in our church said he got saved.

Street Preaching in Panama City.

We went out Street Preaching today in Panama City Florida. While we were out there we had a Lutheran Pastor come out who thought it was okay to drink alcohol, watch Lord of the Rings, be a Catholic, and still be saved what a laugh. This is so typical of a unsaved man trying to tell us were doing it wrong.