Reaching Mormons

Alvin sent me this if anyone is interested in reaching friends or family who are mormons.

NOHO/HOLLYWOOD Adventure - FOLLOW UP

The Lord is good and so gracious to give us this ministry. To be out there with my evangelism family in Christ proclaiming the truth and seeking the lost is such a JOY in my life!

WE HAD SUCH A BLAST!!! 

There were 10 of us total: Clint, Sharon, Faith, Jeremiah, Dean and his wife, Derick and myself started in NOHO and we were joined in Hollywood by Kareem and Rasheedah.

NOHO - Was great, Dean and myself open aired. At one point the Lord worked in 4 peoples hearts to want a gospel of John! Lots of tracts and witnessing went on. I had a particularly angry guy named Patrick who was furious with me that I told him that Jesus said we are evil. He didn't like the idea that there was no good in him at all.

HOLLYWOOD - Was CRAZY as usual. I can't believe this spot is only a 15 minute subway ride from my house! We all had opportunities to share the good news and hand out lots of tracts. Derick, Kareem and myself all open air preached. Over all we handed out about 2200 tracts!! We all left tired and rejoicing!

This open air is a little long, but you get the idea. It was all worth it for the ONE guy at the end...

NOHO IS A GO!

Okay so we are meeting at the NOHO station tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. We'll be there an hour or so then go to Hollywood!

Hope this next segment helps to equip you for action!

Spurgeon quote of the day! - Repentance

"Together with undivided faith in Jesus Christ there must also be unfeigned repentance of sin. Repentance is an old-fashioned word, not much used by modern revivalists. "Oh!" said a minister to me, one day, "it only means a change of mind." This was thought to be a profound observation. "Only a change of mind"; but what a change! A change of mind with regard to everything! Instead of saying, "It is only a change of mind," it seems to me more truthful to say it is a great and deep change—even a change of the mind itself. But whatever the literal Greek word may mean, repentance is no trifle. You will not find a better definition of it than the one given in the children's hymn:—

"Repentance is to leave
The sins we loved before
And show that we in earnest grieve,
By doing so no more."
"True conversion is in all men attended by a sense of sin, which we have spoken of under the head of conviction; by a sorrow for sin, or holy grief at having committed it; by a hatred of sin, which proves that its dominion is ended; and by a practical turning from sin, which shows that the life within the soul is operating upon the life without. True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be. No sinner looks to the Saviour with a dry eye or a hard heart. Aim, therefore, at heart-breaking, at bringing home condemnation to the conscience, and weaning the mind from sin, and be not content till the whole mind is deeply and vitally changed in reference to sin."

C.H. Spurgeon - "The Soul Winner"

Spurgeon quote of the day! 5/22

"...to win a soul, it is necessary, not only to instruct our hearer, and make him know the truth, but to impress him so that he may feel it. A purely didactic ministry, which should always appeal to the understanding, and should leave the emotions untouched, would certainly be a limping ministry. "The legs of the lame are not equal," says Solomon; and the unequal legs of some ministries cripple them. We have seen such an one limping about with a long doctrinal leg, but a very short emotional leg. It is a horrible thing for a man to be so doctrinal that he can speak coolly of the doom of the wicked, so that, if he does not actually praise God for it, it costs him no anguish of heart to think of the ruin of millions of our race. This is horrible! I hate to hear the terrors of the Lord proclaimed by men whose hard visages, harsh tones, and unfeeling spirit betray a sort of doctrinal desiccation: all the milk of human kindness is dried out of them. Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also, or what life they have is spent in sniffing out heresy, and making earnest men offenders for a word. Into this spirit may we never be baptized! Whatever I believe, or do not believe, the command to love my neighbour as myself still retains its claim upon me, and God forbid that any views or opinions should so contract my soul, and harden my heart as to make me forget this law of love! The love of God is first, but this by no means lessens the obligation of love to man; in fact, the first command includes the second. We are to seek our neighbour's conversion because we love him, and we are to speak to him in loving terms God's loving gospel, because our heart desires his eternal good."

C.H Spurgeon - "The Soul Winner"

NOHO - Today

Praise the Lord! I went out to NOHO today and after I open aired was joined by Steve. We handed out about 200 tracts and 3 Gospel of Johns! Steve also open aired for the FIRST TIME!!

I can't tell you how blessed I have been to see the Lord move in men at CBC to be bold for the gospel! So far Clint, Kareem, Dan, Dave and Steve have had the "terrifying joy" of serving the Lord in heralding the words of everlasting life in the open air... GLORY TO GOD!!

NOHO/HOLLYWOOD Adventure - 5/23/09

Okay how about this for evangelism this Saturday: we all meet at the NOHO Subway Station at 4:00 p.m. hand out tracts, open air and witness for an hour or so then grab a subway to Hollywood and do the same there and go back to NOHO. 

This is just an idea, I have no clue as to how long the subway ride will be, but it could open up some interesting opportunities.

Please post comment feedback for this idea.

Terminator Salvation

I went up to Hollywood Blvd. today and had a hard time handing out tracts. There were not a lot of people out there for some reason and those that were didn't take them like usual.

I remembered a guy I spoke with earlier told me about an advanced free screening of Terminator Salvation at Graumins Chinese Theater, so I walked over and there was a line of about 200-300 people waiting to get in! I had a great opportunity to preach to the crowd, I'll admit I was a bit scared but the Lord gave me the strength. I even got to use my amp, so hopefully they could hear me. PRAISE THE LORD!

NOHO Subway Station - 5/19/09 - FOLLOW UP

I had a great morning with Tony, Michelle at Noho. We handed out hundreds of tracts. Tony and I both preached, after the first time 4 people took gospel of Johns! A guy named Jim took one he asked about CBC, maybe we'll see him.

Something super funny that happened today was that a young guy walked by and asked me "Don't you guys ever sleep?" I just smiled... later today I went to Hollywood Blvd; the SAME GUY walked by me as I was preaching again! I told Him the Lord really loved him to have him hear the gospel 2 times in the same day, we both laughed.

NOHO Subway Station - 5/19/09

Law Man and I will be at the NOHO subway station this morning from 8:00-9:30 a.m. if anyone would like to join us.