Praise the Lord, I apologize for the delayed response I rarely get on here.
We have not gotten into any trouble, once I was preaching and the coppers rolled up and I thought they might tell me to get lost lol especially I have a really Loud voice but they just sat in their car and after a while they left, maybe they just wanted to see what the crazy Christians were up to.
Another time they rolled up and gave us a thumbs up, Praise God
Do I urge immediate repentance and baptism?
I do preach it, because Bakersfield Ca, is full of commercial Christianity and a lot of people have been taught that false once saved always saved doctrine, and that the sinners prayer is enough so I do preach on the need of repentance and Jesus name baptism and the need for being filled with the Holy Ghost to overcome addiction and every other spirit of sin, but I don't put myself in a position of Judge, jury and executioner.
The results have been really fulfilling for us as a small independent apostolic church, because the truth is that no one has come to congregate with us unfortunately, but I believe only God knows why, it hasn't produced growth in numbers and as hard as it is to accept it at times, I trust God, and know that He knows all things.
We have grown spiritually, and feel we are trying to do God's will.
Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:19 KJV
http://bible.com/1/ezk.3.19.KJV
This scripture kinda motivates me to do it, that Ezekiel was to preach the message wether they received it or they didn't.
The craigslist post, I usually go into the community forum, and in groups I'll post a header for example with the question ¿Have you been heart broken?
And then I'll post scripture like
Luke 4:18 if I'm not mistaken when Jesus declares,He has come to heal the broken hearted, and I talk a little about the different things that break our spiritual heart and why nothing oror no one can heal our heart but Jesus Christ himself is the only One that can take out the stony heart and replace it with a heart of flesh.
Depending on who you are trying to reach you attract them with the headline, and then once they click they will read and will decide if they should contact you or not.
I got messages from a lot of out of town people that through text messaging I would share scripture and encouragement, because they had loss a loved one, or were on the brink of divorce or struggling with addiction.
All the Honor and Glory to God, we only do what we can to preach the gospel and at the end Jesus says we are still unprofitable servants
God bless you, sorry for the long post
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