I have been under conviction for some time to preach in the streets. A few weeks ago I told God that if He gave me a message, I'd preach it. Immediately He gave me a message. The following Saturday I went on my regular soul winning appointment with my regular partner. The week before we had gone to the city courthouse and saw five people accept Christ. Sorry, I've been bogged down lately and haven't been posting updates regularly. Okay, I haven't been posting them at all.

This week I decided we would go to an outdoor mall where teens typically hang out and try some outdoor preaching there. I was able to give the Gospel to a small group, but saw no results and never really got comfortable with where we were. Somehow I felt like I was being disobediant. We left and went back to the courthouse, parking a few blocks away. As we walked toward the courthouse square, rounding a corner we saw a small group of people gathered and a man speaking to them with the aide of a microphone and speakers. I immediately know God had put that there for me. I was now on the spot.

We walked up to the group, a chatty young lady there began to inform me of what was happening. Turns out I had walked up on an outdoor Town Hall Meeting. The person speaking finished, the host took over and announced that in a little while he was going to allow anyone who had something to say to come up to the podium and speak their peace. I told Eric, my partner to start praying as I began attempting to remember the message God had given me earlier. I was doing quite well with that effort when, just before he opened the microphone up, he announced the "rules of engagement". They were really simple. Only two: no profanity, and keep your speach to two minutes or less.

Now I had planned on at least 10 minutes, probably more like 15, which would have stretched into half an hour. Those plans and the message just got scrapped. Having now no idea what I was going to say, I was the second person to speak. I took the microphone and remembering some testimonies I had read from street preachers, opened my mouth and began speaking. The testimonies were that the first word was very difficult, the rest just flowed out.

Here's the message via YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDWdtYx2iM



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