First Time Open-Air- and after

Hello!Please pray for me. I am open-air preaching for the first time this Saturday night. I have been going down to a place in Fayetteville, Arkansas called Dickson Street. Dickson Street is filled with bars and clubs. A few of us from my church have been going down there faithfully for about 2 months. God has been moving on me to open-air preach. This Saturday there is a college football game in Fayetteville and Dickson Street will be packed with people. I'm very excited about it!!

God bless, brother, be filled with the Holy Spirit!

Hi Joshyea i will pray for you bro! awesome, you're going out in the open! makes me remember what you've placed on your xanga long time ago ;-)He is with you bro! be blessed!in His love!William

Hi PreachParsley...!This is soooooo exciting! I pray that God will use you to "break up the fallowed ground" in the hearts of those who hear your voice. Please share with us your feelings and experiences afterward. I am certain that many in this SermonIndex fellowship will be praying for you and those to whom you are sent. Be strong and of good courage! :-) Joshua 1:9

Glory to God! Tell us how it goes.

This weekend we went out to Dickson Street. Friday night we handed out several Gospel tracts and had the opportunity to speak to some one-to-one. Saturday I went out to open-air preach. We got out there and spoke to one guy(one-to-one) for about 20 mins or so. He had a very foggy imagination of what God desires. He told me I was a sinner because the car I drive isn't efficient. God is much more concerned with your soul than he is this world, which will burn. We started asking simple trivia questions to draw a crowd and when someone would get a question right we would give them money. We had about 3-5 people gather and listen. Then I started saying to people "who wants some money? Come and get it here it is!" No one would come and take it. I wasn't even going to ask questions. It would have just been theirs if they would have came and got it. Then I begin to preach about pride. People are so proud that they don't want others to think that they need money. We never got much of a crowd but there were some seeds planted I'm sure. There were people driving by with their windows down and you could tell they thought I was a mad-man. After this we just went to do some one-to-one and hand out tracts. Even though some may think it looked like a failure, true success comes in obedience not number. We are going out next week and doing the same thing. We will probably move to a different part of the street and I am going to try to get an easel and get a sign.. I think that will give people another reason to stop.

Even though some may think it looked like a failure, true success comes in obedience not number. We are going out next week and doing the same thing.Amen bro! don't be discouraged, go on, He is with you! keep preaching for The Audience of One!be blessed!William

Obedience...simple obedience is what God is pleased with. Be obedient to do what He asks of you and just wait and watch...God Bless you, bro.

I thought I would just modify the Subject on this thread instead of starting a new one.I went out to preach again this weekend. This time we moved to another corner that is a lot more busy. I got up on the soapbox and I started talking about 9-11 and begin to move it into a Gospel message. I didn't even get to the Gospel part until I had someone already yelling at me and mocking me. I then begin to preach sin and righteousness. A man was walking toward me from across the street and I pointed the man out and said "Do you think you are a good person, if you are I'll give you $10." He got within an inch or so of my nose. I see how important elevation is now! This get kept saying, "Why don't you get down from there!" But as long as I stood up there he didn't try to do anything. I went through some of the law with him and he said he has never lied, stolen, or lusted. I called him out to the crowd and started preaching about how this man thought he was perfect and how he was very wrong. After that they stayed around and listened for about 20 mins or so. Every once and awhile they would start cussing at me. We never really got much of a crowd listening to me directly but there got to be a crowd of about 20-30 waiting to cross the street. I know they were listening. There seemed to be a new crowd crossing the street about every 5 mins. I would just preach the same message to each crowd. I really have no idea how many people got to hear my 5 minute sermon. I would guess around 200. It is a fairly constant flow of people stopping a the corner to cross the street. I preached some where around an hour. Some would stop and mock and cuss for awhile and then go on. It really is a totally different feel in the open-air. I have preached several times in church pulpits but it is just so much more intense standing on a soapbox!

There seemed to be a new crowd crossing the street about every 5 mins. I would just preach the same message to each crowd. I really have no idea how many people got to hear my 5 minute sermon. I would guess around 200. It is a fairly constant flow of people stopping a the corner to cross the street.Isa 55:11"So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My Mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."He takes care of the rest, you are being obediant, that's the key bro, obedieance! And know it's not about the things you can accomplish, but about being obediant to The Lord!:-)be blessed bro!William

Let's keep it up, all you street preachers out there! Preach the Gospel to all men everywhere. It's great what has been happening here, PParsley. :-)

It was a little slow this weekend. I don't know where all of the people were. Saturday night there was a college game, so we went out a little earlier to try to catch the crowd going to the bar before the game. I got up and started shouting "God loves sex! God loves sex!" and then I asked "You love sex too don't you?!" People started laughing and agreeing that they did love sex. I then told them what type of sex God loves. God loves sex in marriage with a man and a women. Their faces dropped as soon as I said that. We had a few mockers. A few weeks ago we were just getting there and on a railing were 2 guys with their shirts off yelling and rapping at people. That week we witnessed to one teen who was with them and he seemed very humbled by what we said but the others he was with left because they didn't want to hear it. Those 2 guys were there when I set up my step-stool to preach on. I figured there was going to be some major heckling, but to my surpise they didn't do much other than mock us. They did listen to me the whole time. There were 2 other teen girls that were there that said they were christians. They kept asking a lot of questions like, "what do you belive about ___?" They seemed to me to have a firm Christian background but not the reality that should be with a Christian that is furvently serving the Lord. Over all it was good.

Hi bro!thanks for the update!, are you going to do this every week from now on?I got up and started shouting "God loves sex! God loves sex!" and then I asked "You love sex too don't you?!" People started laughing and agreeing that they did love sex. I then told them what type of sex God loves. God loves sex in marriage with a man and a women. Their faces dropped as soon as I said that.shouting that will sure get the attention!They seemed to me to have a firm Christian background but not the reality that should be with a Christian that is furvently serving the Lord.Yea, Paul and i discovered the same on the christian music festival this summer, where we asked people about God and if they knew Him as a reality. Unfortunatly most guys/girls only had a christian background, they had some knowlegde, but not the relationship with Christ :-( that was sad...but keep preaching The Truth bro!be blessedWilliam

Yeah I plan on doing it as much as possible. Right now we usually do one-to-one on Friday's and Open-Air on Saturday. But it will probably turn into doing open-air more often. There is a HUGE biker rally called Bikes, Blues, and BBQ going on there in a few weeks. On the offical website they said over 200,000 attendees are expected to attend! There population in Fayetteville is only 58,047! 157,715 in the county (which is a division of the state..if you didn't know).

awesome bro, may God use you, bless you and make you more like Him :-)On the offical website they said over 200,000 attendees are expected to attend! There population in Fayetteville is only 58,047! 157,715 in the county (which is a division of the state..if you didn't know).wow that is great! :-) (and i didn't know about the numbers)be strengtheneth and of good courage!Joshua 1:9Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for The LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Awesome brother, keep preaching the truth.

I've been so encouraged by everyone's reports on here!I ended up preaching Friday and Saturday night.Friday- We usually only do one-to-one on Friday but I always have my step-stool with me incase God ever stirs me up to preach. We were doing some one-to-one and it was time to preach. We went back to my vehicle and got my stool. We found a different place to preach this time. There is a club that has huge windows that they open up, so I set up shop right outside the window. It was very intense! Probably the most intense night I have faced. As soon as I started this guy started yelling "I love ___ (lets say he was saying women... he was using much more sexual language), I love ___!" And then he yelled at this girl and asked her if she loved __ and she yelled "Yes I love___!" and they started dirty dancing right in front of me. We had hecklers left and right. After we were done preaching one guy was telling me how christians should preach.. even though he was an atheist. It was intense to say the least..Saturday- It rained Saturday night. But I thought, "If they can party in the rain I know I can preach in the rain." So we went out. I set up by the same place. Not many hecklers because no one wanted to get wet. But people right inside the club were listening. One lady started taking pictures of me. There was one guy that really caught my attention. I think he was convicted. He was sitting at a table listening intently to everything I was saying. His wife (or so I think) had to grab his arm and shake him to get his attention, so she could talk to him. They left not long after that. I pray he would turn to God. This week is going to be BUSY! There is a huge biker rally this week.. It starts Wend and ends Saturday night. I read on their website that 200,000 are expected to attend! I plan on being out there Wend, Thurday, and most all day Saturday. Friday I am going to see Keith Daniel! Please pray that many seeds will be planted and that God would yield the increase.