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Originally Posted by Aquila
Is Street Preaching biblical? Has the 21st century church become too comfortable and safe in our sanctified church buildings while multitudes are not being preached to?
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After the passage of the landmark Mental Health Act in 1964, which deinstitutionalized many of the mentally ill, the numbers of "street preachers" rose dramatically. This was perhaps exacerbated by the prevailing liberal mores about drug use.
We've seen something of a decline in this type of outreach as the "War on Drugs" has driven so many street preachers underground. Also, the pharmaceutical industry's many new prescription alternatives have recycled the street preachers of the 1960s and 1970s into viable employment as computer software developers.