This has been an amazing week for the ministry. Let me give you a quick review.
On Thursday, May 6th, it was the National Day of Prayer. We joined about 40 others in front of City Hall in Carrollton, TX to pray for our nation. It was an amazing time. People were calling out to God for people to repent, for leaders to repent, for churches to repent and for America to come back to God. Afterwards, we were talking with some people and decided that we should pray for our nation together more than just once a year. So since National Day of Prayer is the first Thursday of May, we decided we would meet at the City Hall the first Thursday of every month! The next one is June 3rd. Craig has decided to have a prayer time at his office in Dallas. And another brother has already mentioned they will do it in Ohio as well. If you are interested in participating in a First Monday prayer for the company at your City Hall or office, then post a comment with where you will be. If there is enough interest, I’ll put up a map on the Bezeugen website.
On Friday night, Mande, Brendan and I headed to downtown Dallas to check out the logistics for this Saturdays The Five Hundred outreach. We parked at Elm and North Houston near the book depository. This is near Dealey Plaza where JFK was assassinated. See point A on the map. We talked to a couple people. One of the vendors told us that on Saturday nights there are still people there until dark. We should be able to preach there even with an AMP! We then walked to the DART train station (Pacific between Lamar and Market on the map) where I handed out about 100 gospel tracts and had a couple of one on one conversations. You may have heard of our new tract that says on the front “If you’d like to reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ, please dispose of this card.” One gal was so upset that she literally ripped the card into at least ten pieces and then threw it in the trash can. Once she settled down, we did have a brief conversation where she (and her two friends) heard the Gospel. Then shortly later a gentlemen named Ray heard the Gospel after receiving the same card. He was totally open to the message of God’s grace available through repentance and faith in Jesus. He said he was going to go home to call out to God! at that point we walked up through the West End on Market Street. There should be some good places to preach and open air along there like at Market and Ross (point B) and Market and Corbin (point C). We did not walk up to American Airlines Center, however, on Saturday there will be a Nickleback concert there which will be a good place for people to open air preach and hand out tracts.
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On Saturday, I was in Oklahoma City with Shane, Brady and Adam. We first preached in the open air at the Carnality Ball. Brady had received a flier about the Carnality Ball about a month earlier and had been checking out the logistics. He beat us there. When Shane and I arrived there was no one outside and Brady said everyone had already go in. He asked me what I thought we should do. “Preach”, I said. So we set up the box and Shane’s Half Miler hailer. After prayer, I got up on the box first. When I started preaching, I think there was only one person outside of the farmers market building across the street. The amazing thing was that within a couple minutes, not only did a crowd form across the street, but the crowd presented some of the most antagonistic mocking of the Gospel that I’ve ever heard or seen. Two guys that were painted head to toe, came across the street and asked if they could take pictures with me while I was on the box. I agreed. Another guy came over with the video. And there were other videos from across the street in our direction. Please pray that when their videos are used on YouTube that the Gospel is not muted and many will hear even later. Shane, Brady, Adam and I took turns on the box. For over 90 minutes the Gospel was proclaimed. Across the street the group of mockers rotated. For most of it they formed a small three piece band with a clarinet, drumming on a plastic storage box and playing a symbol. They also sung songs and chants that mocked God. At one point they tried to drown us out by chanting about “Macaroni and Cheese!” The sight broke my heart. I dropped to my knees in prayer. As it got dark, we decided to go to Bricktown. At Bricktown, Shane, Brady and Adam preached down by the canal. I handed out a lot of tracts and had many one on one conversations.
On Monday, Craig, Todd and I went to Brookhaven College in Dallas over lunch time. We handed out about 75 bottles of water, over 100 Gospel tracts and were pretty much continually involved in conversations with the college kids for an hour and fifteen minutes. While sharing the Gospel with a group of four young people, I took them through the Law. When I asked if they had every lied, one gal said sincerely, “I guess I am going to hell!” I told her that Revelation 21:8 said that she was right. I shared a couple of more commandments with them just so they knew that was not the only issue. They agreed they would go to hell. She said it was hopeless because she could not undo what she had already done. I said, yes, we all deserve to go to hell. I then explained that there is a mediator between man and God – Jesus. When I finally told her that if she were to repent and trust in Jesus alone, that God would remove all of her sin and He wold see her “white as snow.” Her face absolutely shown when I shared that. I don’t know if she came to faith right there on the bench she was sitting on. But, she thanked me for the time. And since she does not have a Bible, I mailed one to her!
Looking to the week ahead, we have plans to share the Gospel in the Dallas West End on Thursday, door to door Thursday night, in Dallas for the 500 on Saturday night, at Arbor Hills for Project Ezra on Sunday and then back to Dallas on Monday at lunch. It should be a fun week serving the Lord.
