Today was a weird day. While at Fresno State University, I witnessed the worst street-preaching I’ve ever seen. I also witnessed what God can do with a few humble servants who want to show love while preaching truth to a crowd of disgusted atheists, Mormons, Muslims, and at least one Catholic guy. While telling the story, I’m going to write some things that have been going on in my heart lately as I think about communicating effectively to people who are different from us.
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What’s the takeaway here, besides an effective method of diverting a crowd from a hateful preacher? I think we should be thoughtful about the way we communicate to others. Some methods of communication are clearly more effective than others. So pray about it, and then try some things and reflect later on what went well and how you could improve.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
What I took out of it was that Josh Brahm has no idea what the Bible says and deep down he was condemed one way or another and therefore was offended. Granted some people have no business preaching unless called to do so--people tend to go off towards the extream when they think they are doing God a service but instead are out of his will and doing it by their own intellect.
God could have chosen many ways to preach his gospel--heck he even let a donkey set his prophet straight one time--But my Bible says that He chose it through the Fooishness of Preaching. When people are confronted with the truth than it becomes an issue of tollerance or of hate. My Bible says that if I follow Jesus and say what he says that I to will be hated.
God says his ways are not our ways--when we try to figure him out throuth our own intellectual thinking than we miss it by a million miles. Did not John say to God that "I am glad that you have hid these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them unto babes as would learn"
Jesus was hated because he condemed the Religious Men of their sins and not being able to repent but I suppose it was a communicational problem.
In the end people don't like the Truth and they don't like it when they are told they are wrong and they don't like it when there sins are exposed --they prefere and easy pleasing gospel with no sacrifice or dying out to one own way of thinking or God forbid that He actually become LORD of their lives--But sadly we tend to think we know better and can do it with our own will.
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:43 pm
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