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Post by Jesse Morrell on Jun 19, 2006 18:58:42 GMT -5
I have learned from much experience that the key to getting a crowd on the streets is to talk directly to men specificly about their specific sin.
If I'm in a club/bar area, I'll directly address people walking by. "You guys aren't going to get drunk tonight are you?" Or if women are scantly dressed, "please women put some more cloths on." Speak directly to people specificly about their sin.
Do not preach about sin and sinners in general. Do not merely preach to people but preach at them. As Spurgeon said something along the lines of, "I never find it effective to preach to people. You must preach at them!"
I can't stress this point enough. It's one of the most valuable lessons you can learn. Pay very close attention to your preaching to see if you are talking to men about their sin or if you give the impression that you are talking to men about other men and their sin.
Hit the nail directly on the head. Don't beat around the bush. Don't talk about "there are certain people who" but rather "you people". I often will say, "you people" alot because people know I'm talking directly to them. "You people are out here to get drunk" or "Some of you people are looking to fornicate".
This type of "you" preaching is what you will find in the prophets, the gospels, and the book of Acts. Just do a crosswalk.com search in the New Testament for the word "you" and see how often it is in the preaching of Jesus and in the Apostles. Jesus so emphasised this that he said often, "For I say unto you" so as to not give the impression that he was talking to others. It would be as a street preacher today saying, "Hey you, I'm talking to you".
Talk directly to specific people directly about their specific sin.
Once you start directly talking to people about their specific sin, gospel sparks are going to fly!
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Post by cervyy on Jun 20, 2006 0:00:33 GMT -5
Good idea Jesse ...
Umm, God doesn't like what you've been doing preaching His "word." He doesn't appreciate it that you're turning people against him.
Also, Satan also wants to tell you to keep up the good work!
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Post by messengermicah on Jun 20, 2006 1:09:33 GMT -5
That is exactly right brother Jesse. I cringe when I hear about preachers trying to sound humble, or not trying to sound arrogant by acting as if they are not talking directly to the sinners about their specific sins.
They must know you mean them. They must know they need to repent NOW!
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Post by cervyy on Jun 20, 2006 8:49:57 GMT -5
When Jesse was in Oz he made a point of disagreeing with an "Out and Proud" shirt by making it say humble. Mess, if Jesse told us to be humble, why then do you say something different?
*sigh* proud "Christians" are the worst of Satan's folowers ...
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Post by messengermicah on Jun 20, 2006 11:05:53 GMT -5
Can you read? I said preachers make a mistake when they TRY TO SOUND HUMBLE by not speaking directly to the listeners and speaking in a general way. Sometimes they also try to do this by acting as if they are including themselves in what they are saying, as if they live no differently that you sinners.
If the preacher is not living differently than you sinners he is not saved and should not be preaching.
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Post by cervyy on Jun 20, 2006 11:15:18 GMT -5
But if you're TRYING to sound humble, then you're NOT humble. Why try to be something if you;re not already that?
Preachers are human and just as sinnful as us "heathens," you're just too proud to admit it.
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Post by messengermicah on Jun 20, 2006 11:22:32 GMT -5
Do you know how to read, or is it that you just don't think before you post? I agree with you on the trying to sound humble thing, which is exactly why I said they should not do it.
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Post by cervyy on Jun 20, 2006 23:08:23 GMT -5
Okays, I gets what yous was saying. Sometimes I get so emotional and ... driven! after I read some posts here. But I think of it as one of my endearing qualities ;D
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Post by Jesse Morrell on Jun 22, 2006 20:15:37 GMT -5
A great man once told me a story about Duncan Campbell. Duncan had a vision that he was on a ship. The ship landed and he get off and started walking the streets. He saw that the entire town, or at least large amounts of people, were all rushing to an open air meeting. The crowds were so large that he could not even see the preacher. But he could hear the Word of God being preached.
After a while the meeting ended and the people all dispearsed. Duncan then saw who was preaching. On the box preaching was the devil. In anger Duncan rushed up to the devil and said, "What are you doing preaching the Word of God!" to which the devil replied, "Duncan, don't you know that my greatest weapon is preaching the word of God without the anointing of God?"
For those of you who preach, pray and fast for the anointing. For those of you who do not preach, pray and fast for those who do.
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Post by Jesse Morrell on Jun 22, 2006 21:14:43 GMT -5
I posted this in a different thread but it really belongs in this one. It goes with what I was saying at first about directly talking to sinners about their specific sins.
Charles Finney said “bring up the individuals particular sins. Talking in general terms against sin will produce no results. You must make a man feel that you mean him. A minister, who cannot make his hearers feel that he means them, cannot expect to accomplish much. Some people are very careful to avoid mentioning the particular sins of which they know the individual to be guilty, for fear of hurting his feelings. This is wrong. If you know his history, bring up his particular sins. Kindly, but plainly; not to give offense, but to awaken conscience, and give full force to the truth.”
This revivalist goes on to say “Preaching should be direct. The gospel should be preached to men, not about them. The Minster must address his hearers. He must preach to them about themselves, and not leave the impression that he is preaching to them about others, He will never do them any good, further than he succeeds in convincing each individual that he is the person in question.”
I think the application of this is, if you are at a bar you preach against drunkeness, if you are at a club you preach against lustful dancing, if you are at a homosexual parade you preach against perversion, and so on and so forth.
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Post by messengermicah on Jun 22, 2006 22:14:25 GMT -5
Amen absolutely!
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Post by Jesse Morrell on Jun 26, 2006 14:14:54 GMT -5
I read yesturday about one of Wesleys preachers, and also converts, named John Nelson. When John Nelson heard Wesley preach he said, "I thought his whole discourse was aimed at me."
Daniels, Wesleys biographer, said, "Nelson might well think this. For it was one of Wesley's peculiar characteristics to wind up his discourses and drive home the doctrine thereof with the most pointed and personal exhortations. As such times he spoke as if he were addressing himself to an individual, so that everyone whoses condition he might describe felt as if he were singled out from all the rest, and the preachers words, like the eys of a portrait, seemed to look at every beholder.
"Who art thou, he cried, "that now feelest both thine inward and outward ungodliness? Thou art the man! I want thee for my Lord; I challenge thee for a child of God by faith; the Lord hath need of thee. Thou who feelest that thou art just fit for hell, art just fit to advance His glory - the glory of His free grace.
Look unto Jesus! There is the Lamb of God who taketh away thy sins! Plead thou no works, no righteousness of thine own; that were in very deed to deny the Lord that bought thee. No. Plead thou singly the blood of the covenant, the ransom paid for thy proud, stubborn, sinful soul."
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Post by evanschaible on Jun 26, 2006 15:53:44 GMT -5
AMEN
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