Post by Jed on Feb 11, 2006 10:43:43 GMT -5
"There is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few". 1 Sa 14:6
Been doing a lot of intersection preaching recently. Probably in an hour you can have 1000 people in cars drive by. Very often people will roll their windows down and listen. And they won't act as "hard" as when they are just walking down a sidewalk (many people are too ashamed to actually appear interested so they keep walking).
Even if they only hear one Scripture or see the Gospel sign, it's worth it. Because they are not going to hear Ps 7:11 at work, Walmart, Christian tv (maybe ray comfort will tell them), and probably not at church either.
Anyway, we went down to a prominent intersection and "cried aloud, and spared not" Isa 58:1
It was on a corner where a gas station was. I thought doubtless 6 feet from the street is public property. And we so continued for about the space of half an hour. Until a certain lady, who worked at the gas station, came out and told us we were "cramming this down their throat" and that she would call the police. We also knew that certain pizza restaurants pay employees to hold up signs for pizza at the EXACT location and the pizza employees never get arrested for displaying their free speech!
The police came and said we don't mind preaching but the station owns the entire corner because "they cut the grass and maintain it". Is this so?
They showed us a concrete island that they said was public property, but if people complained we would have to move.
We capitulated just to keep the preaching going, even though i had doubts about the grass 6 feet from the street being private property.
What bothered me most was this: if people complain they will ship us out even on public property. Surely this is unconstitutional.
Many people listened intently and waved and seemed to be encouraged.
Been doing a lot of intersection preaching recently. Probably in an hour you can have 1000 people in cars drive by. Very often people will roll their windows down and listen. And they won't act as "hard" as when they are just walking down a sidewalk (many people are too ashamed to actually appear interested so they keep walking).
Even if they only hear one Scripture or see the Gospel sign, it's worth it. Because they are not going to hear Ps 7:11 at work, Walmart, Christian tv (maybe ray comfort will tell them), and probably not at church either.
Anyway, we went down to a prominent intersection and "cried aloud, and spared not" Isa 58:1
It was on a corner where a gas station was. I thought doubtless 6 feet from the street is public property. And we so continued for about the space of half an hour. Until a certain lady, who worked at the gas station, came out and told us we were "cramming this down their throat" and that she would call the police. We also knew that certain pizza restaurants pay employees to hold up signs for pizza at the EXACT location and the pizza employees never get arrested for displaying their free speech!
The police came and said we don't mind preaching but the station owns the entire corner because "they cut the grass and maintain it". Is this so?
They showed us a concrete island that they said was public property, but if people complained we would have to move.
We capitulated just to keep the preaching going, even though i had doubts about the grass 6 feet from the street being private property.
What bothered me most was this: if people complain they will ship us out even on public property. Surely this is unconstitutional.
Many people listened intently and waved and seemed to be encouraged.