On Saturday night, fellow Ambassadors’ Academy #10 alumni, Adam, Brady and I, as well Shane and John went to Oklahoma City to witness prior to the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA basketball game. The only hesitation we had about going was the forecasted temperature of around 19 degress (F)! But we remember that the Bible says to preach the gospel “in season” and “out of season”. The forecast was correct. Brady and I discussed the possibility of going to a mall and doing one on one conversations with people, however, in the end, as Brady put it, “we can’t give up the opportunity to preach!” Maybe it is just something about planning witnessing events in Oklahoma. Last September, Shane and I preached the gospel in the pouring rain!
We met an hour and fifteen minutes before tip off. The Ford Center is located along Reno Avenue just south of the convention center. The city blocks off Reno Avenue so that people can cross from the parking lot under the convention center. We set up our preaching box about fifty feet from the front door that faces the convention center. This proved to be a good location as we were able to catch people coming from the east, from the convention center, coming from the south and even some from the west (although I think there is another entry on the west end).
We took turns preaching the Law and the Gospel. See picture above of Brady on the box! At one point Adam and John took one of the preaching boxes down to the corner and were also doing open air there. In all we preached for over two hours. It was surprising that even after the time when the game would have started, people were still coming. But, after two hours the crowd was thinning out and we were all sufficiently frozen. So we called it a night and headed to Bricktown to share some pizza and fellowship. We estimated over dinner that we had handed out over 1000 Gospel tracts!
After dinner as we headed for the car, Brady had a nice one on one with a couple of teenagers!
A great night of sharing the Gospel. I’m already looking forward to my next trip to Oklahoma so we can go out and do it again.
