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Street Preaching!

I have heard that Greg and Wil often go "street preaching", but was not sure how it all worked. Today, we went into downtown San Josè in a popular and very busy shopping area. So, Greg put a few U.S. $1-dollar bills and a $20 in his hand and stood on a crate - before he even said anything, people began crowding around him. Greg asked them funny questions like, "Who can name the only mammal that can´t jump?" Answer: elephant. "What U.S. state produces the most coffee?" Answer: Hawaii. etc. He would give one dollar to those who answered correctly. Then he would hold up the $20 dollar bill and ask, "Who is a good person here, hold up your hand?" He would call on someone and tell him/her to answer some more questions. He would ask them, "Have you ever lied?...stolen?...committed adultry (maybe not physically, but in mentally)?" etc. somewhat following the 10 commandments. Then he would ask, "Does a liar, a thief, or an adulter sound like a ´good´person to you?" The crowd only grew larger and he had their attention. Then Greg shared the gospel (only a few minutes) and mentioned his gringo friends were around to pass out information about their church to them. He stuck around to answer more questions people had and the rest of us talked to the people around us (they wanted to ask us all more questions). Greg told us earlier that preaching is important because it works. God commands in the Bible to preach the gospel and Jesus, Paul, and others preached in the streets (so it´s not something weird, or something that doesn´t work anymore today). Side note - Greg is from the U.S. and speaks very good Spanish, all of his preaching is in Spanish.

posted by Christie @ 11:37 PM