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Post by Josh Parsley on Feb 22, 2006 13:58:07 GMT -5
Is anyone going to New Orleans? Or is there a local celebration of this where you are?
Here in Fayetteville, there are festivities going on Saturday afternoon and Tuesday night.
It will be a battlefield!
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Post by Josh Parsley on Feb 26, 2006 15:24:40 GMT -5
This weekend was a very good weekend of preaching. Many seeds were planted.
Friday:
A brother from Morrow (Spelling?), Arkansas came out. Neither one of us knew that the other was going to come out. He had a sandwich board. It was great to labor with him. I hope he gets to come out more often.
I was standing on one corner with a sign and all of a sudden a large mass of people began coming out of the Walton Art Center, so I ran across the road, jumped up on a flowerbed, and started preaching. I didn't preach for a very long time, just long enough so the people could hear as they were leaving and crossing the street. I haven't had the opportunity to OA preach in awhile so my voice didn't last like it should.
After that I walked up the street with a sign. I got in a very long conversation with a man and woman. I believe the man was a homosexual. The reason I think that is because he was very feminine and just out of the blue he started defending homosexuality. I didn't even mention it. It just came out of him. He was very avid about trying to defend his sin. The sign I had was about drunkards. He later tried to tell me that the word drunkard was not in the Greek. This was about the only thing I agreed with him on. I began to explain to him that there is no English words in the Greek. Greek is a different language than English. People will use the most unintelligent things to justify their sin.
Saturday Afternoon:
We went to the parade of fools for Marti Gras. I would give praise to the man that named it. I think its very fitting. I began preaching and as soon as I started a man beside me threw glitter all over me. Then he gave some to his child (probably around 3 yrs old) so he could throw it at me. Also, the child threw a paper wad at me. That father will face a fearful judgment in that Great Day. Then some ladies started yelling and proclaiming, "We are sinners and we will go to Hell!" in a mocking tone. Then they walked off and one of them began to flash me. That's how the first 90 seconds of preaching went…. After that it calmed down and people seemed to just listen.
I felt like a had a complete message in and we should move on to another part of the parade. As we were walking off a girl and her mother came up to us very convicted and encouraged by the preaching. They were Christians. The girl began to confess how she was lacking in her efforts to preach the Gospel. It was good to see earnest conviction. We then walked around holding our signs. There was a radio station that had a float which was a big radio. On the loudspeaker the announcer made a comment about us. It was great. It brought much attention to us, which meant people looked to read the signs.
Then I preached on a corner as the parade was ending. Cars were driving by "flipping us off" and yelling. One man while in his truck, waiting to go through the light, started to rev up his engine to drown us out. After he stopped I started preaching to him about me knowing he can hear me. Even with his windows rolled up he could. I know this because after I started addressing him he began to stare at me with a disgusted look.
Saturday Night:
I could tell the (morally) low pressure system of Marti Gras is moving in. Lust was running rampant. We talked to a philosopher for a long time. He kept getting mad because we were "personifying God." He was trying to make God some irrelevant object far off into space.
Many heard the Gospel and there were seeds planted. Please pray as we are going out Tuesday to "Fat Tuesday."
I'll add this is in Fayetteville, not New Orleans... Just in case you were wondering.
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Post by messengermicah on Feb 26, 2006 23:15:03 GMT -5
I am glad you added that because I was wondering. I know Ruben Israel is preaching at the New Orleans Mardi Gras for the 22 year in a row. I was going to tell you to contact him but I figured you were preaching somewhere besides New Orleans.
Thanks for the report though and God bless you for your willingness to go preach there. Why don't you post this in the open air battles section?
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