I did not have the confidence to ever try preaching. It took me many years before I took up the courage to do it.
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That is the problem we have a bunch of girly men who are afraid to even pass a tract in public. Makes their knees turn to jelly.They will however hide tracts inside the toilet paper rolls inside the stall of public toilets. That is the extent of their public ministry. Think of the shame & humiliation, if they were caught putting a tract out.
"I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ" David Brainerd
"Many churches report no new members on confession of faith. Why these meager results with this tremendous expenditure of energy and money? Why are so few people coming into the Kingdom? I will tell you�there is not a definite effort put forth to persuade a definite person to receive a definite Savior at a definite time, and that definite time is now." Billy Sunday
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin wrote:
> You need 20 / 20 Vision
> Publickly & House to House!
> Acts 20:20 And how I kept back nothing that was
> profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have
> taught you publickly, and from house to house
Kevin, we are talking about two different things. I certainly do more
teaching house to house than I do preaching publicly. This house to house
thing in this passage deals with the discipling process of basically having
home church. I do not see it as going out like a door to door salesman
ringing door bells and sharing the gospel. Again, I am not against that.
If you do it, fine. I may sometime in the future do it again. What I was
trying to say is that my time is limited and if I have a four hour block of
time to give to evangelism, and the choice is door to door bell ringing or
standing in a public area and preaching Christ, I will choose the preaching.
Why? Because it is much more effective. It is a better use of my time.
The truth is that as I look back, it has been many years since I have gone
door to door witnessing. I guess I find it rather intrusive into the
private lives of others.
I did the door to door thing for many years and have logged thousands of
hours doing it. I only wish I had discovered public preaching back then. I
simply did not have the nerve for it nor knew that it was acceptable. There
were no role models for me back then. I never knew a street preacher nor
had I ever seen one until after I had graduated from high school. Even
after I met my first street preacher, I did not have the confidence to ever
try preaching. It took me many years before I took up the courage to do it.
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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