Post by Jesse Morrell on Mar 12, 2006 15:06:34 GMT -5
Here is a great report from brother Tony Holland who was with us on the streets Friday night in Brick Town, Downtown Oklahoma City.
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Tony Holland wrote:
"Well, not literally preaching to the bars, but to the people going in and out of the bars.
Brian and Heather Bomar and I were blessed to be able to go out and preach the gospel in Bricktown with Jesse, Miles and Jeff from open air outreach.
We started the night with prayer in Bricktown and then Jesse and Jeff set up in two different areas to preach in the movie theatre plaza. Jesse's area was the perfect place and perfect timing as the Hornets (Pro Basketball Team) Game had just let out and hundreds of people walked right by the area that Jesee was preaching. Miles took a turn and had a great heckler straight from post modern teaching.....everything is right, everything is the same. Miles continued to lay out the truth and evidence for him and the heckler finally got frustrated and left. Brian had a great conversation with four foks who fell under deep conviction. It was one of the biggest swings from laughing and joking to hanging their heads in shame that I have seen in a while. Amazingly they seemed to be hanging on Brian's every word. Please pray for these four as I'm sure they will be thinking about that conversation for a time to come.
We then moved down into the bar/nightclub area. Jesse, Miles and Jeff took turn doing something that I never really thought about doing (or maybe was too chicken ) They set up on the public sidewalk 10 feet away from the line to get into the busiest club in Bricktown (Citywalk) and preached with great concern and urgency for the people to realize their sin, realize that they were going to a sinful place, and to leave, repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ. Their method of preaching was different than what I was used to and it was a blessing to be able to sit and listen for a while. It was funny at times, convicting and packed with the love of Christ. Some people were angry, and watching the crowd, some people were very convicted, some even threw condoms filled with water from the roof (I'm pretty sure) of Citywalk which is 7 stories tall.
Jesse, Brian, Heather and I left Citywalk to Jeff and Miles and walked down to a newly renamed club in Bricktown....The new name is, get this, "purely sinful". They got the name right as it was clear that this club was winning many for Satan's kingodm. Jesse preached to the line outside of that club. In the group of people that was being preached to were a couple of celebrities. David Harrison, Jeff Foster and some players for the Indiana Pacers were outside and had some off color things to say about the preaching. Did manage to get a tract in David Harrison's hand, and I pray that he reads it. While Jesse was preaching to the crowd, Brian and I did some personal witnessing. I had the opportunity to talk to a very sweet lady that had all the right answers but no assurance of salvation. She just couldn't know for sure. We talked for quite a while and I left her with some scripture that she promised to look up and read. Pray for her!
After a great night of preaching, witnessing and tract distribution we went to IHOP for some much needed rest and fellowship. It was great to spend time with those guys and I had to apologize to them as I had some pre-concieved notions of what they did and what they were about and found myself to be very wrong.
I ask for prayers for them also as they travel to Fayetville, AR today.
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Tony Holland wrote:
"Well, not literally preaching to the bars, but to the people going in and out of the bars.
Brian and Heather Bomar and I were blessed to be able to go out and preach the gospel in Bricktown with Jesse, Miles and Jeff from open air outreach.
We started the night with prayer in Bricktown and then Jesse and Jeff set up in two different areas to preach in the movie theatre plaza. Jesse's area was the perfect place and perfect timing as the Hornets (Pro Basketball Team) Game had just let out and hundreds of people walked right by the area that Jesee was preaching. Miles took a turn and had a great heckler straight from post modern teaching.....everything is right, everything is the same. Miles continued to lay out the truth and evidence for him and the heckler finally got frustrated and left. Brian had a great conversation with four foks who fell under deep conviction. It was one of the biggest swings from laughing and joking to hanging their heads in shame that I have seen in a while. Amazingly they seemed to be hanging on Brian's every word. Please pray for these four as I'm sure they will be thinking about that conversation for a time to come.
We then moved down into the bar/nightclub area. Jesse, Miles and Jeff took turn doing something that I never really thought about doing (or maybe was too chicken ) They set up on the public sidewalk 10 feet away from the line to get into the busiest club in Bricktown (Citywalk) and preached with great concern and urgency for the people to realize their sin, realize that they were going to a sinful place, and to leave, repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ. Their method of preaching was different than what I was used to and it was a blessing to be able to sit and listen for a while. It was funny at times, convicting and packed with the love of Christ. Some people were angry, and watching the crowd, some people were very convicted, some even threw condoms filled with water from the roof (I'm pretty sure) of Citywalk which is 7 stories tall.
Jesse, Brian, Heather and I left Citywalk to Jeff and Miles and walked down to a newly renamed club in Bricktown....The new name is, get this, "purely sinful". They got the name right as it was clear that this club was winning many for Satan's kingodm. Jesse preached to the line outside of that club. In the group of people that was being preached to were a couple of celebrities. David Harrison, Jeff Foster and some players for the Indiana Pacers were outside and had some off color things to say about the preaching. Did manage to get a tract in David Harrison's hand, and I pray that he reads it. While Jesse was preaching to the crowd, Brian and I did some personal witnessing. I had the opportunity to talk to a very sweet lady that had all the right answers but no assurance of salvation. She just couldn't know for sure. We talked for quite a while and I left her with some scripture that she promised to look up and read. Pray for her!
After a great night of preaching, witnessing and tract distribution we went to IHOP for some much needed rest and fellowship. It was great to spend time with those guys and I had to apologize to them as I had some pre-concieved notions of what they did and what they were about and found myself to be very wrong.
I ask for prayers for them also as they travel to Fayetville, AR today.