Open Air Evangelism, "you just got to be here!"

Open Air Evangelism and the Call to Simply Show Up

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One young young guy who who I was discipling a few years ago I was like, you know what showing up is half the battle bro. You know what I mean showing up is half the battle. You know, I mean if you're gonna show up show up because that's that's a very important part, bro.

Let God figure out the rest. You just gotta be here. You just gotta be here. Okay, like that doesn't mean you need to show up. I mean and perform and preach. That's how the gospel tracks. I just simply stretch out your arm.

That's it out. That's all you gotta do is smile. That's it. If if if you don't feel like you're adequate or you can't really like open-air preach. You know to me that's fine. Some people have that ability more than others.

Multiple Ways to Participate in Evangelism

That's fine. Well, you could pass out of gospel tracks I'm sure your elbows work. You know what I mean, you know what I mean, um, I could Pray you could come out with me and stand right here. You could just quietly just pray.

So there's many ways to participate in evangelism. Other than opening your mouth and talking. I mean and that's really edifying and You know going out there and saying man. I need to I need to preach and it's like I need I need.

Warning Against Fleshly, Forced Evangelism

You know carrying that generic approach to say it's up to me to go out there and save people and I need to go up there and Preach Jesus and force feed it down people's throats somehow. I think that's not edifying.

That's not helpful for the church. It's not helpful for Christianity. It's not helpful for the gospel is not doing any service for the gospel. It's not doing it's not doing any love for those people walking by.

You know and you're only hurting yourself as well because you're doing it in the flesh and not Relying on the Holy Spirit to to do its job to save people right to regenerate sinners.

You make an interesting comment. You're talking about people trying to force the Holy Spirit, you know down somebody's third eye.