On Saturday July 12, 2008 me and my brother Noiz went to the Loop to do some street evangelism. Unfortunately we were time restricted because I accidently left my wife and children at a neighbor’s house with no keys which left them stranded. This meant we where going to have to jump right in if we were going to have a productive night. After a quick bite and a short discussion we decided that we would each take 20 (million dollar bill) tracts and then head on home when we were finished handing out all 40. God had different plans! We handed out a lot of tracts in a short amount of time but were not able to hand out all 40 before we were told to leave the premises. That’s right we got kicked out! This was quite a surprise to us since in our previous street ministry encounter at the Loop we were given approval by an Osceola County Sheriff’s Officer who was serving as security there. Never the less, we finished our encounter and gracefully left the Loop.
During our encounter (audio below), God gave us the opportunity to talk with some adolescent’s. These kids were very respectful and excited by the million dollar bill tract. They actually wanted more of them to hand out! Their attitude actually made the encounter a lot of fun. Noiz actually started off by addressing the older kids when the youngest one named Andre, jumped in and shouted “I go to church”. Then Noiz turned to him and asked him if he could name the 10 commandments. Surprisingly he named 7 of them pretty quickly which left us trying to recall which ones he missed. The next question that Noiz asked the group of 3 was how many beer brands that they could name. Unfortunately even with the success of the commandments they were able to quickly name 8 beer brands (1 more beer brand than God’s commandments). Andre said that he learned about beer from watching a lot of TV and learned about Red Stripe from watching PTI on ESPN. This proves how corrupting TV can be to our youth! Finally after security warned us not to hand out any more gospel tracts, Noiz shared God’s grace with these friendly participants. Praise God for allowing us to share His grace with these kids! They were very cooperative and understood where they had broken God’s law and would be in jeopardy of eternity in hell separated from God in their current standing. I would have been very upset had we not been able to share God’s grace with them. God is good!
As soon as Noiz finished sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ we were told to leave by the Loop Security Staff. Although we are now left praying for a new street ministry spot, we had a great night serving our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by sharing His glorious gospel! Thank you Lord for using me as a tool to share Your gospel.
2 comments:
Great detail of our Loop Adventure. I'm not sure about you but I know I'll be back at The Loop with a different game plan.
Who's that handsome guy your with in that picture? :)
As long as we are obeying the law of the land I will be right there with you!
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