Bible Study for Street Preaching — Winkie Pratney

Bible Study Tools for Inductive Study

A couple more illustrations on these things that I mentioned to you before. Here are some valuable tools. First, an interlinear New Testament. This is good for in-depth study, for your inductive studies.

And what this gives you, ones like this give you a literal Greek text, text in Greek and underneath it the literal English word, and then beside it a translation. This particular version has New International and King James side by side.

Or you can get this other one. This is the Marshalls one. It's the same thing. So that way you can see the way the actual thing reads in Greek, even if you don't know Greek, give you the literal translation underneath it.

Those are valuable little things. Here is the Hebrew equivalent, which is a little thinner, of the theological dictionary in the New Testament. I've got mine back in New Zealand, but you can get an idea.

In the Hebrew versions they've got Y's and put the English transliteration beside it. So you don't have to read Hebrew in order to be able to use it. But it'll have the word, askara, remembrance, and then it just gives you pages and pages on what that word is.

So that's what a lexicon looks like. And these are horribly expensive things. Don't even ask the price of this thing. Don't even ask, because I haven't got it. But anyway, this is volume four, and there's probably another 15 volumes probably in that set.

Here's a valuable tool for background study. This is a Bible encyclopedia, like a standard, like a regular encyclopedia, but it gives you, this is a four volume set again, so you can imagine there's a lot of stuff in this, it gives you words, it gives you names, it gives you places, and it gives you, again, amplifications.

What you're looking for is background material. And the best place, when you're on teams and you're traveling, and you take a day off, go and find a good old second-hand bookstore. Go to the, look right through it.

Go to the encyclopedia section, go to the biography section, and then go to the religious section. Because a lot of them don't know, you know, you'll find biographies by Booth, by Lewis, by all kinds of people.

They don't know they're religious, so they put them in, they put them in under regular biographies. You'll find encyclopedias and stuff like that. And you can find some really neat things. Look through it.

If you see anything that looks like it could be useful to you in terms of background, go for the finely printed old dudes like Keech and that. If you find that kind of stuff, then just get it on the principle of the thing.

And then this one helps you with geography of things. This gives you, these are really nice looking things, but you know, how things are laid out. And again, this is all to help you visualize, to put you in the picture.

When I watched Masada, for instance, Fay was there. See, she went up there. You had to get up at some unearthly hour, four thirty in the morning, because it was so hot there that you'd die in the heat out there if you were just a regular tourist.

But she told me about that thing, Masada shall not fall again. I used that. I used that in all kinds of messages long before that came out. So that's your, then, now I'm going to give you your last thing on this thing, and then we'll practically go into the putting together of a sermon.

Harmonizing Parallel Gospel Accounts

The last section on this, we had a look at the wide look, the deep look, and the broad look. I call this one the personal look, and all it is is, is sometimes you get passages in the Bible where two different places the same event is described.

Sometimes, a lot of times in the New Testament, a few times in the book of Acts. Paul, for instance, gives his testimony three different times in the book of Acts. Now sometimes when you read these passages you come to apparent contradictions in them.

You know, Paul says, in one part it says, they saw the light but they didn't hear the voice of him that spoke. In another one it says, they heard the voice of him that spoke but they didn't see anybody.

You know, so it looks like a contradiction. This area, one guy spent his life, and died before he finished doing this, it's called the life of Christ in Styria, and what he did is he put together a harmony of the Gospels simply by dropping all passages where exactly the same thing is said, and keeping in wherever there's differences, all in order.

So what you come up with is a single Gospel composed of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, all in chronological order with all of the little bits that one leaves out and the other one puts in. The reason why there are apparent contradictions are because Matthew will pick up little bits, Mark will pick up other bits, Luke, John, for instance, a huge percentage of John appears nowhere else in the Bible.

So Matthew might say a certain man came to Jesus who was a lawyer, and Mark might say one of them who was a scribe. When you put the two together, a certain man who was a scribe, a certain man, one of them who was a lawyer and a scribe, so you get the whole picture of the thing.

And that's been done for you by this guy. But you can do it yourself simply by writing out the whole passage and putting them beside each other, and I call it interweave analysis. What you do is you take your different passages and you, wherever there's one that parallels like this, see, when these two say exactly the same thing, you just take out one of it and you leave whatever's different.

And then you just write them all out together. Do you see, in other words, all the passage I had once scribbled out one time is here in Matthew 22, 35 and Mark 12, 28. And it's better in Greek, but I'll give it to you in King James.

Matthew 22, 35 says this,. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,. Now here's what Mark 12, 28, describing the same story says,. And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together and perceiving he had answered them well, asked him.

So on surface reading it says the guy's a lawyer, and the other says he's a scribe. You put them together with this interweave analysis, and this is what you come up with. And then one of the scribes came, one of them, which was a lawyer, and having heard them reasoning together and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying.

And here's the way when you get both of those things interwoven together you get a beautiful rich account and all you do is you drop out the extraneous words. Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Which is the first commandment of all? Jesus said to him and answered him. The first of all the commandments is, Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and you shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

This is the first and great commandment. The second is like unto it, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

It's rich and it's full, and all you do is interweave the two passages. And you can find on things like that, you find for instance that Peter actually denied Jesus six times, two sets of three. Three times, kakru, another three times, kakru, six.

All kinds of interesting little things come out of that interweave analysis, just throw that in. Anyway, now the practice of putting a message together. The first part of this, you must ask God for an idea, or a word, or a text, or something.

Seeking a Word from God for a Sermon

You have to have a revelation. You can't just put a sermon together on words. It has to come by revelation. You understand what I mean by revelation? Not some big heavy thing, but a word, you get guidance on teams and stuff, right?

You ask the Lord, where should we go, what should we do? Ask Him for what He wants you to speak about. It's a simple thing, it goes like this, you say, God what do you want me to talk about? Now I've waited sometimes, and the Lord's given me one single word.

I got a word once, and I've used it sometimes in illustration, I got a word, I prayed all day, it was a major rally, it was my final thing before I was leaving New Zealand for the first time, we were going overseas.

I started in the morning trying to get a message, nothing. Prayed, fasted, waiting on God, nothing. And they're coming to pick me up at 5 .30, this rally starts at 7 .00, it's 5 .25 and there's nothing.

I got a blank sheet of paper, I got an open Bible, I got concordance, I'm going crazy, right? I'm getting dressed, looking at this thing, there's a knock on the door, I'm there, I said to God, what do you want me to talk about?

And He said, run away. Just that word, run away. Knock, knock, knock on the door. I grab my Bible, I've got a concordance on the back of it, grab some sheets of paper and pen, and driving in, I'm sitting in the back of the thing and I'm looking at every verse on runaway, every story on runaway, just one word.

But I'm looking at Adam and Eve, they're runaways. Jonah, he was a runaway. See, when you get the word from God, then everything else comes. That's what you have to get, the word. It doesn't have to be a word, it can be a story, it can be a principle, it can be….

But it has to be quickened to your spirit. If it's quickened to your spirit, then the rest of it is fun. But the getting of that is the pits. It is really the pits. I was writing that message all the way in the car, sitting in the rally.

That's why I sit in the front of things and don't sit up on the stage, because I am writing three quarters of the time the message. That's exactly why I do that. You see me shuffle through notes and stuff.

It's not that I'm unprepared. What I'm doing is, God is saying to me, go through that. So I get stuff and I'm going, I'm looking at stuff, and He's going, that, this, this, and I'm just hauling stuff out, and it looks totally klutzy, and this is not a pattern for you.

I'm saying this, I'm so…. I like everything cut and dried, so He keeps me fresh by doing that with me. The singing went through, the special music went through, the final singing, the final girl got up to sing, and then I'm on to speak, and I'm still writing.

And they call me up to speak, and I'm still writing. And I get up there, and I said, could everybody bow your heads and close your eyes, and I finished the message. I wrote the last lines right up there on the pulpit.

And then I preached, and it was a powerful thing. We had a lot of people respond. At the end of it, I went down, and there was a girl sitting there, right in the front, never forgotten this. She was a polio cripple, and she was just total, she was weeping, weeping, weeping.

And this girl called me up and said, this girl wants to talk to you. I went over and she said, you preach that message for me tonight. She said, tonight I've been hanging around with this lesbian girl.

She said, this is the last Christian thing I was ever coming to. Tonight that girl is going to pick me up and go out to live with her. And she said, you preach on running. You know the last words I wrote up on that pulpit?

You might be a Christian girl who has wandered far from the love of God. Tonight His love tugs the strings of your heart again. Come home, run away. Now, who would have known that a crippled girl could run away?

God knew. See, and that whole hassle I had all day, I don't know if it was the devil or what, I don't care. I know that when I got up to speak, I had a word from God. And then it doesn't matter if you're not fancy, and it doesn't matter if things don't fit.

When God is giving you a word, people will know it, and it will change lives. So your task, gentlemen and ladies, is to get a word from God. And the rest of it is detail. The rest of it is what I've given you here.

Developing the Sermon from Initial Ideas

When you get that word, this is what I do, I get a sheet of paper, a big sheet of paper, just a scribbly sheet of paper. I try to find, being Scottish in ancestry, an old envelope or something that I can rip open and scribble all over, because that's not your final shot.

What you're doing on that is you write down what things you get straight away. You write first. See, you don't do all your study first. You write what you've got first. And as fast as you get it, write it down, because God will give you a stream of things.

You'll start on the back of the car, all right, run away. Adam and Eve. See, I've just put Adam and Eve. Scribble. Leave space. Jonah. Jesus was not a runaway. See, He could have let this cup pass from me, but He didn't.

Kids run away. They run away in their minds, they run away in their lives. That one word is triggering all of this stuff. And then all of the stuff you've done before, your Bible reading, your inductives, your topicals, all come flashing back to you.

Now, when you've written yourself out, and you've got all that you can see, then go into each one and inductive it, or topical it, or whatever. Go to Adam and Eve. Read the story through. Why did they run away?

Who did they run away from? Then you'll get all kinds of other things that come out of that. And you'll find, leave plenty of space between each one of these things. Then you'll find that there's all kinds of, you're getting a message is what you're getting.

Depending on the kind of message it is, this is great for preaching. You can preach this in a street. If you're doing a teaching thing, you tend to go to more inductives. You know, the words, that kind of stuff.

But with this, it'll probably be more topical and then analytical, just the overall thing of it. You're not doing, you're trying to reach people with something. So that's the base of it. When you've got your rough scribble, then you've got to, your next job is to start rewriting it.

Get a decent piece of paper, and then write it. And I use different colors of magic markers and stuff for major, remember we talked about major themes and stuff? You write your major themes, which are your major points in different colors.

I have like, like a red or something for all the major points. Now here's a couple little guidelines that may help you. This is only red, preached red stuff. I'm trying to get as practical as I can now in your actual street preaching and stuff, because a lot of these things, you do, all you need is some outlines to hang things on, to talk from.

But the more detailed you get, the more quality you'll put into your message. All right? We'll give you a mix on both these things. When you write your stuff, use a free verse format if you're going to read it.

By free verse I mean, don't put all your stuff and fill the whole page up. It is better to have a couple of sheets and do it like this. Main point. See? Adam and Eve, Adam ran away in his, physically.

He ran away emotionally. See? Instead of physically, emotionally, mentally. And the reason is, because when you're up here, and you've got to just glance at that thing, you've got to pick it up first time, or you're going to miss it.

You can't afford going, let's see, I think it's down there. So by having it like this, you can high point easily. These are all different colors. See? And then it will pull you through quickly. Now, by the way, if you're speaking from, if you're speaking in a large thing, and you've got notes, don't be afraid to look deliberately at them.

Because first of all, you're not trying to pretend to people you don't have notes. That's the worst, you know, it's like, that's the pits. It is really stupid. If you're going to use notes, use them deliberately.

I learned from watching Billy Graham preach, by watching him getting up in a place where I could look down and watch. He's very deliberate. You watch next time he preaches. He'll go boom, and then he'll look.

It's very deliberate, and it's so deliberate you don't notice it. You've never noticed him looking at his notes. But he does it so deliberately. He'll say, you know, whatever he says, you know, the world is conflict full of tension, you know, and then he'll go like that.

So use them deliberately. Don't be afraid to. If I'm using notes in a meeting, I will hold them up. I'll look at them, you know, like this. Don't pretend you're not, if you are. If you want unobtrusive things, you can use cards or you can stick things in your Bible.

Get a Bible that's big enough and put your notes right in there. By the way, let me turn you on to a little thing I found the last year. See these little yellow things in the side? They're a note, post-note thing that Scotch puts out.

It's sticky permanently, but it sticks on and doesn't tear off. It stays sticky permanently. You can put them in for Bible marking. You can get larger ones, about this big. So if you need Bible markers, see that?

How easy you can find that? And you can get big enough ones to scribble notes on and stick them right in there on your Bible, because sometimes when you're preaching in the open air, your wind is blowing and there's nothing, man.

It'll blow right off. They're called post-notes or they come in little packets, but they're, you can reuse them all over the place. So I just use them, I keep them in the front of my Bible. That's a practical thing.

You can buy Bibles that are loose-leaf Bibles, but they're a bear if you drop them. You know, there's one, if you drop it, it's all over. There was another one I bought in my early years that has a nice clip on it, a big strong clip that locks down and I put all the messages in there, but what I'm going to now are plastic sheets, heavy, transparent plastic sheets that you can stick your notes in, because I mean I've preached in rain, it comes down and totals out, your notes all start running.

I preached with half an inch of rain on a pulpit one time and all my notes just ran right there. So write your notes in waterproofing and use magic markers and stuff. If you can put it on, the reason, you need something heavy because if you, if you've got anything to put anything on, you might need a rubber band or something to actually lock it down and hold it there.

Because in street preaching, if you can hold anything at all, it's going to be a Bible. It's going to be hard to do this kind of stuff. All right? Now, in your final thing, when you've finished, by the way, I can't give you the whole thing on sermons and stuff here, but you must expect the most particular attention you need to pay is what you say at the start and what you say at the end.

Opening and Closing a Sermon Effectively

Everything else in the middle is not so important as those two things. The opening statement, you'll lose them or gain them, and at the end you'll lose them. Peter Marshall used to say, be like the oyster that shows discretion in its openings and knows when to close.

So, have enough, you know what's good on this too, if you've got illustrations, these are all just practical things off the top of my head. If there's an illustration that you know well, one that you'd like to use, all you do, I put little things like this in my messages, you know, a child or something like this, and that little deal, then you can leave your notes.

You see, you can leave your notes. You can describe it, you can tell it, just like that, and then when you come back, you come back right to where you left off and go on with your continued things. Now, guys like Dave Wilkerson is a dynamic, powerful preacher and most of his sermons are read.

I mean read. If you watch Dave, he actually reads his messages. He'll open it up and he'll go, tonight I want to talk to you about a fire. He just reads right out there. Don't despise that, because Jonathan Edwards did it and people fell out of their chairs.

George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards preached like this. He was short-sighted and he held his thing about six inches away and he had a monotone. He read his sermons like that from open manuscript like that.

Short, Story-Driven Street Sermons

Street meetings, street meetings, you do not need a sermon for street meetings. This is more for the mass meeting, like you've got a concert or something and a bunch of people come in and you want to, you know, you've got a forty-five minute thing, you've got to speak.

That's where you use this. Street meetings, what you need is the old classic three-pointer type thing. Just three, three little keys or, you know, just a few keys. And what I do is get one of those little notebooks, a little ring-bound notebook about this big, big enough to fit in your Bible, and do some simple three-point outlines in that thing.

You know, with good stories, good tight little stories, illustrations, personal illustrations, a few scriptures, not a lot of things. And then just use those as hooks, because in a street meeting you do not have the time first, you can't preach for forty-five minutes, you just haven't got an audience that long.

You need to think of about a seven-minute thing, max, that's it. And if you can't say what you have to say in seven minutes, don't think of saying anything. There will be rare times when you've got a huge crowd and they're there and they'll just stay.

Now that's, that's unusual. And what I did is, for the street meetings, I had a bunch of little messages that I just wrote out, used them once or twice, and then put them in full in this little folder.

I can take that little folder with me, and then when I get into a situation I can just open that out and go with a particular one that I think will fit the situation. See that? You need that. All right, let me show you the practice of the street meeting really quickly.

Designing a Street Meeting That Stops Passersby

And then we'll have some questions and stuff. Make them as practical as you like, because this is stuff you can't put in books, you know. And I'm just giving you what works for me, and you may find all kinds of other things.

But here's the way a street meeting is. Most street meetings are horrible, because people do not know how to do a street meeting. The average street meeting is a guy standing on the corner yelling and screaming until he's hoarse, with people going past embarrassed.

All right, that is the average street meeting. And that's the pits, because we had those in New Zealand. We had little groups of people dressed in black in the corners of the streets on Sunday afternoons going, Behold the Lamb of God!

You know, and people would go, Oh man! So this was the pits, and no matter what they... I won't totally disown it, but I'll just say that I was a Christian. I was embarrassed. I didn't want to be near there, and I was saved.

So I can imagine what unsaved people felt like. To do a street meeting properly, the key word is transient. See? Your audience is not fixed. They move. So you have to stop that audience. You've got to stop them for long enough to hear what you have to say.

I figured we had a roughly three to five minutes max from the time they first came into hearing or seeing us up the road, we had PA systems, to the time they left. And during that three to five minutes, they had to hear the gospel one way or another.

That meant if there were songs, they didn't have eight hundred verses, you didn't sing, you know, you didn't have long instrumental things that went on for twenty minutes. If you had music, it had to be short and it had to be punchy.

Testimonies could not be involved. They had to be short things. They had to be to the point. And the sermon was not preached until your crowd stopped. Okay? Now, what we did is we built a platform. Harold helped do this, so you can talk to him about the practice of it.

We actually built a little trailer, like this. It was a pull-behind-a-car trailer, a little flat thing. You know, like a little Bethany trailer type thing. It had, it opened up like this. It had a little top, flat top that opened up.

In the back you laid your speakers and a little canvas thing that covered it over and it plugged into a battery charger overnight. It had a couple of car batteries in parallel in it, so it could run a long time.

It opened up like this. Two speaker columns were pulled off. Sat them right here, like this. In the front of the speaker, the column was like this. Oh boy, this chalk is great. In the back of these, it had a little car headlights.

Car headlights, high-intensity car headlights. Slanted back, so that they form spotlights from the front. And then down here was speakers. And in the middle, and one thin, flat PA system, solid state, running off the car battery.

And a little space underneath that for tracks and for counseling stuff. See? So what you had then is one little mic stand that you either moved around or just plugged right into the trailer. And you can have as many as you like.

We only had one. That was our total unit. And then these little, so it looked like this. Well, it's best to show you this. Sitting on the front of it were two speaker stands like that. Shorter, of course.

About that high. Used the back of it for preparing things and back here for counseling. See? And then we set it up right at the main pedestrian crossroads in a parking lot. Something like that. So you've got roads crossing like this.

And there's a parking lot here. And we got permission to set it up right there in the parking lot. Back a little bit off the road so you didn't jam the traffic. But so that anybody in all directions could see it.

Now, what do you do with your people? You form a people net. Here's the way the average Christian thing is. Bunch of people standing here in a tight little group, right? Somebody speaking here. Alright?

Here's the footpath. You're a sinner. You come along. What do you do? You go, mmm, oop! And you go past, alright? Here's what we did. The people that were watching spread out. See? Loose groups. Right across.

Some leaning on lampposts here. Some back up the road a little bit. See? And you come wandering along. You see a crowd of people there. So you just sort of, you look for a little group to be with. You don't put all your Christians together unless you've only got three of them, you know.

Then you put them wherever you can. They're all up on stage. But we had, see we're pulling about 20 or 30 people minimum to run this thing. The bigger the crowd you have, the more crowds it pulls. And then we used music.

We used anything we lay hands on. Our music was The Pits. I mean we had got to be the worst music. But we, I cannot remember a time when we didn't see people save. All we'd do, we'd build this little trailer so you could pull it down and set it up in about five minutes.

I mean you could pull it anywhere. It had big tires on it. You could pull it right out in the sand. You could set it up on the beach. Pull the thing on, stick the thing, plug it in, and run about four hours on the batteries we had with lights and PA and everything going so you could set it up anywhere.

And all it had is, this little thing came up there. It had a couple little clips that locked the stand up there. And this was just a very light backdrop thing. We had a sign we could stick up on the top.

You know, just a little sort of plug-in thing that plugged in some pipes up here. This side here we had a drawing board and a guy who was an artist would draw and people would stand around and watch, see, while the people were talking.

And he preached too. So what he'd do is he'd block out things and wouldn't put the final detail lines in until just before he spoke. So people would stand there working out what he'd do and then he'd come up and he'd just, he'd put the final lines in and he'd say, I've just drawn the end of the world.

Are you ready for it? And he'd just lay this seven minute thing on people. It was unbelievable, the power of the thing. You use your music to draw the crowds. When the crowds come, you intersperse the music with a few testimonies and then you put, when the crowd is there and they're interested, you put the speaker on.

And he, she does not speak very long. All they do, in essence, in that thing is give a little story. It's story orientated outside. You don't want people to get, come in the middle of some big long exposition on something that just passed by on the other side of the road.

You tell them stories and nobody wants to leave till they hear the end of that story. We had all kinds of little, look for stories. You can be funny, you can be sad, you can be anything you want to be, but you cannot be unreal.

You've got to be, it's got to be right off the, you know, right out of the heart and right there. And with the people net, people would come up, see, and then these people are working nets. That, you know, a person would stand up there and they're not all dressed, looking like, you know, hey, we all belong to the same gang sort of thing.

People would stand and, you know, they'd say hi and say, you know, not hi, welcome to the, after the guy's standing there for a while, the person might say, what do you think of that? What do you think of this?

And the guys start talking and they'd do the witnessing out in the audience. But we always gave an invitation. At the end of each speaking thing, we gave an invitation. It was very simple. This is the one we used.

Giving an Invitation and Counseling Responders

If any of you would like to know, we tell them, we have kids from all different backgrounds, from all different churches, some of us have no church background, some of us come from churches, some of us belong to this thing and that thing.

But we have with one single purpose to tell you about the love of Jesus Christ and how your life can be changed. And we say, if any of you would like to know how to meet Jesus, we are going to make ourselves available for you to help you in any way we can.

And if you're interested in that, I'd like you to come up and take one of these little things that I have here, one of these gifts we have, a little Gospel of John or something, and shake my hand. And I just hold it out like that.

And you never say, is there one? Is there one out there? That's what you get brother, one, if you're lucky. There are many of you out there that need to give your life to Jesus Christ. If you're here tonight, it doesn't matter whether you're, if you're religious or irreligious, you can be an atheist, an agnostic, Jewish, Krishna, Protestant, Catholic, it doesn't matter to us.

If you'd like to know the living God, then come up and just hold this thing out. That's where your faith rises. And listen, we did this for, I don't know how many years, at least seven years. I cannot remember one single night when people weren't saved.

Never did we go out and have nothing. Never. And we had terrible music, we had, and usually when it was the pits is when God did the best, you know. We had our greatest teams, nothing really heavy, but sometimes we'd see, you know, 20 or 30 people get saved when there was nothing.

We're just crying out to God. Oh, just before we went down, we had a monstrous prayer meeting. Just like an army, you know, and then we'd run this trailer right out of the, and we'd go down and set that dude up and then go straight into it.

And timing and place is important. People, weird, they put, put a street meeting where there's nobody around and there never will be anybody around. Go, go to, where the picture theaters are, where the dance halls are, put them out right outside there.

Where are the kids? Go where they are. Go, don't put them out in some supermarket where there's only, and, and at one in the afternoon when there's no kids there, there's only a few ladies shopping, you know, don't think.

When you go into a town, find out where all the kids are. Where do they hang out? When there's, where is there nothing? Where they're waiting for buses to take them home and stuff. Find out those places.

Go where the people are. Then set your thing up. We helped some people in doing it, somebody in Scotland was trying to do one, they said, well, we've tried it up in there, it wasn't very effective. I said, when do you do it?

We do it every afternoon at one o 'clock in the middle of the town. I said, well, who is there? Well, you know, yeah, that's a good question. Who is there? And I said, where are the kids? Well, they don't get out of school till four.

Well, who are you trying to reach? Well, I said, when are they? Well, there's a lot around there at about twelve, but that's beyond our bedtime. I said, then sleep in the daytime and go out at twelve o 'clock and set your open air up when they're out there for three hours doing nothing at night time.

And that's exactly what they do. And you've got a ready-made crowd. People come from all over the place. There was nothing to do. They're sitting down there. They came to laugh and stayed to pray. But that's the open air thing.

The MC's Administrative Role

Practice on it then. The guy who's running it has to have available maybe a little card or something of testimonies, music, testimonies, and who's available to preach. And should know that before you get down there.