--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Judy wrote: The way Mormons evangelize is more along the lines of the apostles, going out two by two and talking to people in their homes with their permission where there are no distractions and they are a captive audience. Bad message but good method.
DAVEH: Which is why I am surprised at the length/depth some protesters will go to humiliate those they intend to convert. I've never understood that mentality. Do such methods really work in any small measure at all? I can only think they may occasionally gain a convert, but it sure seems to me that it is the wrong method of doing it. For all the effort some protesters put into it, I would think they turn off far more people than they convert. But, that is just the opinion of an outsider. How about some of you street preachers who are closer to the action.......Do such tactics pay off in the long run? jt: The final word is not in yet because it's only the fruit that remain that count. Billy Graham has a massive response at his meetings but not all of them endure, also there are a lot of conversions we never hear about. dm writes: the confrontational ministry is considered primarily a plowing ministry. People will write to us many years later and say, "I just got saved and want to let you know that what you said xx years ago just stuck in me for years and I could not get over it and now I believe in Jesus and am just like you." Sometimes people are extremely convicted for how they responded to a holiness message. jt: I'm still not sure about the street preaching and don't like some methods including those of Hubert Lindsey but I do believe that God will use whatever He can to reach ppl and this is not to say that He validates everything. I remember the musical Jesus Christ Superstar ministering to me at one point in my life when I was about as far away from God as one could get. That musical was pagan and ungodly so I don't understand it - maybe it was just the magnificant and all powerful name of Jesus being lifted up and at some point I did begin to "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness" This is when understanding came. Grace and Peace, Judy ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
