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Post by ejuliot on Feb 4, 2006 14:45:06 GMT -5
How do you get a crowd when open airing?
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Post by josh on Feb 5, 2006 0:32:19 GMT -5
When I was in New Zealand one of the guys I was preaching said "If you want me to draw a crowd, give me a pen, and a bit of paper and I will draw one."
I don't preach for crowds, before I preach that if God wants people to stop, then He will draw the crowd, my job is to preach not bring them in.
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Post by ejuliot on Feb 5, 2006 0:55:31 GMT -5
I listened to paris reidhead's "Ten Shekels and a Shirt" before I went out today. I was really discouraged after last night because nobody really listened to me, but I realized I needed to correct my thinking. It isn't about crowds or numbers but God's glory. Thanks Josh for confirming that. I needed that encouragement.
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Post by Jeffrey Olver on Feb 10, 2006 17:59:42 GMT -5
A man I know who is very adept at Open Air preaching said;
"I like to mingle a smidge of 'insanity' when I preach."
And it does indeed work. Not like cuckoo, slobbering schizophrenic insane, but definitely outside of the ordinary. William Booth (founder of the Salvation Army), to draw crowd, would first argue with an umbrella. Another man involved with the Salvation Army would lay in the snow until a crowd gathered around to look at him, and then jump up preaching.
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Post by Josh Parsley on Feb 11, 2006 11:52:26 GMT -5
I also heard a story about a Salvation Army solider. He would put a hat on the ground and start dancing and yelling, "It's alive!! It's alive!" When people started watching him he would lift his hat in the air, pick up the Bible that was under his hat, and start preaching about the Living Word!
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