Bible Cheat Sheets

Clint suggested I post the cheat notes again for anyone who wants some quick scripture verses... these have been invaluable to me. Just scale them to fit your bible size and print!

Here is a link to them: http://cbcevangelism.blogspot.com/2009/02/gospel-cheat-sheets.html

Burbank Media Center - 5/30/09 - FOLLOW UP

There were a lot of people out at the Media Center last night. CBC had a great turn out with Sharon, Mike and Joanne, Forest, Alvin, and myself. Also Derrick, Dean and Sai came out, they are always a blessing to serve with. Also the Jordan family made a cameo appearance to pray and support us. One highlight for me was a guy who was sitting and got a tract from Sai, then a bible from Mike... he sat a read and read and read that bible. He even listened to us open air preach and thanked us for the bible. Who knows what the Lord was doing in his heart?

You may ask what it the tombstone pic about? I wanted to ask your input on something. What is your impression of our evangelism efforts at the Burbank Media Center location?

Personally; I've been feeling like this particular place compared to say NOHO or Hollywood is drowning in affluence. Do you think we are having an impact there or are we throwing tracts away with little return on witnessing? I don't want to move away from this location until I hear your thoughts about it. 

An Open Air Experiment

I just read this quote from Spurgeon on Open Air preaching and it really inspired me to try an experiment the next time I preach without amplification:

"It will be very desirable to speak so as to be heard, but there is no use in incessant bawling. The best street preaching is not that which is done at the top of your voice, for it must be impossible to lay the proper emphasis upon telling passages when all along you are shouting with all your might. When there are no hearers near you, and yet people stand upon the other side of the road and listen, would it not be well to cross over and so save a little of the strength which is now wasted?

A quiet, penetrating, conversational style would seem to be the most telling. Men do not bawl and halloa when they are pleading in deepest earnestness; they have generally at such times less wind and a little more rain: less rant and a few more tears. On, on, on with one monotonous shout and you will weary everybody and wear out yourself. Be wise now, therefore, O ye who would succeed in declaring your Master's message among the multitude, and use your voices as common sense would dictate."

I'm going to see if I can draw a crowd not by preaching loudly so as to be heard from 50 ft away but 10 feet away. Check back for a FOLLOW UP...

EVANGELISM CALENDAR FOR JUNE

Since I have to put specific dates on the permit for Glendale I thought I would post the Evangelism Schedule for the month of JUNE:

  6th - Glendale (144 Brand Blvd.) 5:00-8:00 p.m. 

13th - NOHO Subway station/Hollywood 4:00-8:00 p.m. 

20th - Burbank Media Center 5:00-8:00 p.m. 

27th -  Glendale 5:00-8:00 p.m. 

Burbank Media Center - 5/30/09

We'll be at the Burbank Media Center next to the AMC this Saturday from 5:00-8:00 p.m.

The reason being is that we were in NOHO/Hollywood last week and we need a sound permit for Glendale before we can open air preach there. Which I will try to take care of before next week.

Please bring you own tracts as the tract well has run dry until the Lord provides. I do have some FREE tracts everyone is welcome to use... but they are FREE tracts if you know what I mean, you may be getting some cold shoulders using these bad boys!

Drop the Bomb Episode 15

There is no Episode 14... if anyone is wondering.

Spurgeon quote of the day! 5/29

AMEN! AMEN!

"Our object is to turn the world upside down; or, in other words, that where sin abounded grace may much more abound. We are aiming at a miracle: it is well to settle that at the commencement. Some brethren think that they ought to lower their note to the spiritual ability of the hearer; but this is a mistake. According to these brethren, you ought not to exhort a man to repent and believe unless you believe that he can, of himself, repent and believe. My reply is a confession: I command men in the name of Jesus to repent and believe the gospel, though I know they can do nothing of the kind apart from the grace of God; for I am not sent to work according to what my private reason might suggest, but according to the orders of my Lord and Master. Ours is the miraculous method which comes of the endowment of the Spirit of God, who bids His ministers perform wonders in the name of the holy child Jesus. We are sent to say to blind eyes, "See," to deaf ears, "Hear," to dead hearts, "Live," and even to Lazarus rotting in that grave, wherein, by this time, he stinketh,—"Lazarus, come forth." Dare we do this? We shall be wise to begin with the conviction that we are utterly powerless for this unless our Master has sent us, and is with us. But if He that sent us is with us, all things are possible to him that believeth. O preacher, if thou art about to stand up to see what thou canst do, it will be thy wisdom to sit down speedily; but if thou standest up to prove what thine almighty Lord and Master can do through thee, then infinite possibilities lie about thee! There is no bound to what God can accomplish if He works by thy heart and voice. The other Sabbath morning, before I entered the pulpit, when my dear brethren, the deacons and elders of this church, gathered about me for prayer, as they are wont to do, one of them said, "Lord, take him as a man takes a tool in his hand when he gets a firm hold of it, and then uses it to work his own will with it." That is what all workers need; that God may be the Worker by them. You are to be instruments in the hands of God; yourselves, of course, actively putting forth all your faculties and forces which the Lord has lent to you; but still never depending upon your personal power, but resting alone upon that sacred, mysterious, divine energy which worketh in us, and by us, and with us, upon the hearts and minds of men."

C.H. Spurgeon

NOHO Subway Station - Today 3:00pm

If anyone would like to join me I'll be at the subway today at 3:00 p.m. Please bring tracts as I am low on good ones. I may have some... um ... FREE ones if you know what I mean! 

FOLLOW UP: It amazes me how you can never judge a book by its cover, so many people that I see "must think I'm crazy" but the Lord draws those very people to come up and take a Gospel of John after I preach. I had 4 people want one. One girl who looked to be dressed in a "worldly fashion" had such a sense of heaviness as she came and got one. Also a young couple who sat afar of who were smiling at first then listened... then each wanted one. There was also a crew of heavy metal teens who had heckled me before, I got to share the good news with 3 of them one "Alex" took a Gospel and another named "Frodo" who APOLOGIZED for heckling me and then said "I've never really listened to people when they do that (street preach) but when I listened to you, I said... that fool makes SENSE." Isn't that amazing?! I also got into a couple of heated discussions with two guys "Circus" and "Charlie"... they both vehemently opposed the bible but I still managed to drop the bomb! Please pray for all these people and me, its hard to go out there alone. Glory to God. 

PRAY FOR ROSA!!

Today, I went up to Burbank Media Center to preach (there was barely anyone there) as I was driving I came to a stop light and looked over to see ROSA!

She heard us open air preach a while ago and even came to visit CBC a couple of times. She has ended up going to a Spanish church in Burbank because her mom only speaks Spanish, she has been going regularly and reading her bible! Rosa said since she met us she has been praying regularly and has had a sense of peace.

Please pray her salvation is real and that she grows in the Lord.

NOHO/HOLLYWOOD 5/26/09

Yesterday I went out on my own for about 2 hours to NOHO and Hollywood. I didn't know what to expect given the issues in CA with Prop 8 stuff, but the Lord's grace gave me the ability to preach 3 times, hand out some tracts and I even got to witness to a Jewish girl who said she never told a lie, stole anything, perfectly obeyed her parents and never lusted... she could not escape anger in the heart! I started to talk with her about Isaiah 53... and her bus showed up! She did take a tract.

The first two times I preached were so wimpy, no one took a gospel of John or even heckled me... the third time I preached I would like to think the Lord gave me (As Leonard Ravenhill would say) some HOLY GHOST FIRE! Five people came up and took a Gospel of John! And I got heckled twice!

Which leads me to the Spurgeon quote of the day:

"The command to the man who would be a true servant of the Lord Jesus Christ is, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind." If a man is to be a soul-winner, there must be in him intensity of emotion as well as sincerity of heart. You may preach the most solemn warnings, and the most dreadful threatenings, in such an indifferent or careless way that no one will be in the least affected by them; and you may repeat the most affectionate exhortations in such a half-hearted manner that no one will be moved either to love or fear. I believe, brethren, that for soul-winning there is more in this matter of earnestness than in almost anything else. I have seen and heard some who were very poor preachers, who yet brought many souls to the Saviour through the earnestness with which they delivered their message. There was positively nothing in their sermons (until the provision merchant used them to wrap round his butter), yet those feeble sermons brought many to Christ. It was not what the preachers said, so much as how they said it, that carried conviction to the hearts of their hearers. The simplest truth was so driven home by the intensity of the utterance and emotion of the man from whom it came that it told with surprising effect. If any gentleman here would present me with a cannon-ball, say one weighing fifty or a hundred pounds, and let me roll it across the room; and another would entrust me with a rifle-ball, and a rifle out of which I could fire it, I know which would be the more effective of the two. Let no man despise the little bullet, for very often that is the one that kills the sin, and kills the sinner, too. So, brethren, it is not the bigness of the words you utter; it is the force with which you deliver them that decides what is to come of the utterance. I have heard of a ship that was fired at by the cannon in a fort, but no impression was made upon it until the general in command gave the order for the balls to be made red-hot, and then the vessel was sent to the bottom of the sea in three minutes. That is what you must do with your sermons, make them red-hot; never mind if men do say you are too enthusiastic, or even too fanatical, give them red-hot shot, there is nothing else half as good for the purpose you have in view. We do not go out snow-balling on Sundays, we go fire-balling; we ought to hurl grenades into the enemy's ranks."

C.H. Spurgeon - "The Soul Winner"