Street Preaching... Is it effective?

[KeptByTheWord]

Is street preaching effective in our modern culture?

Saw this video on youtube, and wondered about it. Who is it glorifying, edifying, helping and changing to use these kinds of antics to get people to hear the "gospel"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGbsiu52CxI

[KeptByTheWord]

Watched another video in which the same group is posting their results from their street preaching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVtffWYc5y8

[Jermyn Davidson]

I think it is effective in that helps to ensure that no one can say they never had the chance.

I don't think it is an effective way in actually reaching people though as most people are not in the mindset to receive the Gospel when they're out having worldly "fun".

The Gospel is not "fun".

[KeptByTheWord]

Do you think screaming at people through a loudspeaker will cause one walking past to really take the person screaming at them seriously?

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

Do you think screaming at people through a loudspeaker will cause one walking past to really take the person screaming at them seriously?

Jesus and Paul were street preachers.

The bible does mention Jesus sometimes screaming his message.

[justlookin]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

The bible does mention Jesus sometimes screaming his message.

Where?

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by justlookin

Where?

Luke 8:8 ..And when he had said these things, he cried,
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

John 7:28-29 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying,
Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am:
and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true,
whom ye know not. But I know him: for I am from him,
and he hath sent me.

John 7:37-38 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water

John 12:44 Jesus cried and said,
He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.

and some other places.

[Michael The Disciple]

At work last night I was witnessing to a 19 year old girl. It just so happened a young man came into the picture and said "I see you preaching up on North 27". He went on to say he had parked at the Burger King parking lot and listened to me preach before. I was really amazed and blessed.

I personally was very much impressed by street ministry I encountered as a young person. When I first saw "Jesus Freaks" witnessing and passing out free food in Athens Ohio it stuck with me.

The best I can tell the street ministry has allowed me to at the least present the name of Jesus and the need for salvation to thousands of people. It requires death to self and gives one a sense of being obedient to the great commission.

I highly recommend it for anyone who finds the Christian Faith "boring".

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

At work last night I was witnessing to a 19 year old girl. It just so happened a young man came into the picture and said "I see you preaching up on North 27". He went on to say he had parked at the Burger King parking lot and listened to me preach before. I was really amazed and blessed.

I personally was very much impressed by street ministry I encountered as a young person. When I first saw "Jesus Freaks" witnessing and passing out free food in Athens Ohio it stuck with me.

The best I can tell the street ministry has allowed me to at the least present the name of Jesus and the need for salvation to thousands of people. It requires death to self and gives one a sense of being obedient to the great commission.

I highly recommend it for anyone who finds the Christian Faith "boring".

That is an awesome testimony Bro. MTD! Praise God for that!

How exactly do you go about street preaching?

[pilgram]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

At work last night I was witnessing to a 19 year old girl. It just so happened a young man came into the picture and said "I see you preaching up on North 27". He went on to say he had parked at the Burger King parking lot and listened to me preach before. I was really amazed and blessed.

I personally was very much impressed by street ministry I encountered as a young person. When I first saw "Jesus Freaks" witnessing and passing out free food in Athens Ohio it stuck with me.

The best I can tell the street ministry has allowed me to at the least present the name of Jesus and the need for salvation to thousands of people. It requires death to self and gives one a sense of being obedient to the great commission.

I highly recommend it for anyone who finds the Christian Faith "boring".

God bless you and your efforts.
I'm a firm believer that God uses many different ways to reach the hearts of his creation.
For example, I was raised by parents who were both atheists and grew up in a small village in New England (the least religious area of America) and remember going down to Vinyl Square to get groceries and cigs for my Mom and sometimes hearing the one church bell ring at the top of the hour and one time thinking "is God calling people thru that bell?"
It wasn't until I was saved 15 years later when I was 22 that God reminded me of that thought and brought me back to that walk by the church that winter day in my mind's eye while in prayer just a few days after I received the Holy Ghost letting me know He was in fact not just calling people He was calling me that day. I broke down weeping realizing how much God loved me when I was just a 7 year old sinner boy that knew nothing about God but He cared enough to deal with me using that church bell.