Why do Open Air Evangelism? | Rapp Report Daily 0083 | Striving for Eternity

Open-Air Evangelism as Public Gospel Proclamation

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So why would I do open-air evangelism? Well, like I said, I went down to the Mormon pageant down there in Manti, Utah this year because we were debuting a new book, Sharing the Good News with Mormons, and my topic in that book was about open-air evangelism.

There's 24 authors to that book, all covering a different way to share the gospel with Mormons, and we get to go down to Manti and see many of those in effect.

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Technique, my style of evangelism when I go there, is to hand out gospel tracts, try to start one-on-one conversations, but I mostly try to do a lot of open-air evangelism, and you can hear my voice is weak because of it, so sorry about that.

But I do that because I can often get a larger crowd of people who won't stop and talk to people, but want to defend their religious beliefs. In fact, I encourage them to do that. Their book says they should be preaching to me on the streets, and so I encourage them to do that.

They think I'm there to protest, and I'm not. I'm there to do exactly what they do when they come knocking on people's doors. I go there to share the truth with them, because they need to hear it. I understand that I disagree with the Mormons.

They disagree with me. They think they have a restored gospel, and I somehow have a gospel that fell away, that was corrupted, and because of that it needed Joseph Smith and the Latter-day Saint Church.

But the reality is, I go down there in open air so I can reach as many people as I can with the gospel. People who won't stop and talk, but still hear the gospel explained and proclaimed.