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

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Welcome to the Laborer's Podcast, which is a part of the Truth in Love Network.

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One young, young guy who, um, who I was discipling a few years ago, I was like, you know what? Showing up is half the battle, bro.

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You know what I mean? Showing up is half the battle. You know what I mean? If you're going to show up, show up, because that's, that's the very important part, bro.

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Let God figure out the rest. You just gotta be here. You just gotta be here. Okay?

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Like that doesn't mean you need to show up. I mean, and, and perform and preach and pass out a gospel track, right?

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Just simply stretch out your arms, pass it out. That's all you gotta do. Smile. That's it.

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If, if, if, if you don't feel like you're adequate or you can't really like open air preach, you know what

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I mean? That's fine. Some people have that ability more than others. That's fine.

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Well, you can pass out a gospel track. I'm sure your elbows work. You know what I mean? You know what

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I mean? Um, I could, you could pray, you could come out with me and you could stand right here and you could just quietly just pray, you know what

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I mean? So there's many ways to participate in evangelism other than opening your mouth and talking, you know what

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I mean? And that's really edifying and, and, and, you know, going out there and saying, man,

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I need to, I need to preach. And it's like, I need, I need, you know, carrying that generic approach to say, it's up to me to go out there and save people.

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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.

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That's not helpful for the church. It's not helpful for Christianity is not helpful for the gospel is not doing any service for the gospel.

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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

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Holy Spirit to, to do its job to save people, right? To regenerate sinners.

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