Monday, February 22, 2010

PREACH REPORT

THE LORD WAS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO ALLOW US TO TAKE THE GOSPEL OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH AGAIN ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THREE MEN FROM FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH STOOD ON THE STREETS OF WAYNESVILLE NC TO AGAIN PREACH THE EXCEEDING SINFULNESS OF SIN AND THE MERCY OF GOD TO THE REPENTANT. ON THE FIRST STOP WE WERE MET WITH CRITICISM AS ALWAYS, HOWEVER WE HAD A LONG CONVERSATION WITH A LOCAL "CHRISTIAN" (YEAH RIGHT) LESBIAN COUPLE. WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WERE HATEFUL AND INTOLERANT, YET IN ALMOST THE SAME BREATH SHE STATED THAT WE DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO PREACH PUBLICLY.....HMMM, SOUNDS LIKE INTOLERANCE TO ME. WE WERE THEN TOLD THAT WE WERE PREACHING A MESSAGE OF HATE, TO WHICH I AGREED FOR GOD HATES SIN AND SO DOES HIS PEOPLE. AT LENGTH THE COUPLE LEFT SHOUTING ANGRY AND "HATEFUL" THINGS BUT I REJOICE IN THE FACT THAT THEY HEARD THE TRUTH MAYBE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. WE THEN MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION WHICH ALSO PROVED TO BE VERY HIGH TRAFFIC FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR AND MANY GAVE SHOUTS OF "AMEN" AND "KEEP PREACHING" TO ENCOURAGE US AND SO IT DID. ONE YOUNG MAN DROVE HIS CAR UP ON THE SIDEWALK THAT WE WERE PREACHING ON, REMINDING US OF THE VERY REAL DANGER OF PREACHING OUTSIDE THE CHURCH AND REMINDING US OF THE PROVIDENTIAL HAND OF GOD WHICH SHELTERS US UNTIL OUR WORK IS FINISHED. THANK YOU TO THE CHURCH AND THOSE WHO PRAYED FOR US, AND ESPECIALLY TO BRO. JOSH MCELRATH AND BRO. DAVID HARVERSON WHO STOOD WITH ME IN THE PROCLAMATION OF THE TRUTH. MAY GOD ADD HIS BLESSING TO OUR LABOR. J.R.