Blainerb: Good thoughts, Terry, but with the last one (in red) I have to take exception. Street Preachers do
not preach, which if done right is a form of teaching-- they simply carry
signs with a mixture of Bible verses on them, none of which are shown to be
related in any meaningful way, and shout equally meaningless nonsense
through their truth horns. To teach, one must show how something
relates to the pupil, and how the lesson concepts relate to one
another. This ideally must be done with individual pupils in
mind, since every pupil learns according to his own individual
style. The hodgepodge I see on the signs and blowing through the air via
truth horns is just mostly uninspiring nonsense. If anyone gets any
"message," I would be very surprised.
In a message dated 6/16/2005 7:46:24 PM Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just
finished watching a show on one of the Christian channels on the
dish. This evangelist/ preacher was going to college kids, trying to
show them their need for a savior. It was done with minimal
preaching,
mostly one on one with the individual or small group in an
interview format.
The absolute ignorance of the average college kid is
unbelievable. When
he asked for them to name the ten commandments,
no one could name them
all. Very few knew more than three, some knew
none, and some did not
even know there were commandments. None of
then knew that they were to
love God. When asked how many brands of
beer they could name though,
these same kids easily came up with
ten.
He would ask them if they had ever lied, ever lusted, ever
fornicated,
ever stolen, and every one admitted to doing at least a couple
of these
things, some admitted to doing them all. Then the
interviewer would
say, " since you are a liar and a thief, and you have
done what God
says you must not do, where do you think you will
spend eternity?" The
answers were either,"I am going to Heaven
because God is too loving to
send me to Hell for little sins," or
the answer was " there is no God,
no Hell". No one thought that they
would spend eternity in punishment.
If there is a God, He is too
nice to punish people.
I am reminded of a statistic put out a few years
ago by the Southern
Baptists. It said that of all the kids that were
raised with regular
church attendance being part of their life experience,
eighty-eight
percent of those kids, when they left home, would also leave
the church,
and never return.
Thank God for the
street preachers. May their numbers and their wisdom
increase.
These kids will never hear Christ preached from a
pulpit.
Terry
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