Tonight was “Art Walk” in downtown Springfield, but it was not as
crowded as it used to be. I believe it may have something to do with the
college crowd has left for home for the summer.
Michael Borich, GNN Seed Sower, came out tonight to witness with me. We were able to pass out gospel tracts, as well as meet other Christians in the area.
We
decided to walk over to the Bus Station and pass out tracts and witness
to those sitting and standing around. One of the gentlemen we met,
named Harold, is a U.S. veteran. We talked for a while and he said he
considered himself to be a good person. We asked him if we could ask him
a few questions to see if that was true. He agreed. We took him through
the Ten Commandments. He admitted
to being a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer-at-heart. However,
he didn’t really admit that he was on his way to hell. He didn’t really
know what it was to be born-again, so we went through it with him. He
didn’t appear to be very interested. However, we told him we would be
praying for him. God does the convicting…we just sow the gospel seeds.
He shook our hand and we left.
While walking around Park Central
Square, a man walked up and offered me a bottled water. We found out
that this is Pastor Bill Kolb of West Division Street Baptist Church in
Springfield. We have previously met up with members of his congregation passing out water, gospel tracts and witnessing. It was nice to
finally meet him. He is thinking of planning a Christian event in
Springfield and asked for our opinions. He gave me his e-mail address
and I will follow up with him.
There was a young man named Jeff
that was with Pastor Bill. Jeff said he had only been with Pastor for
less than 20 minutes. He came out on his own to witness to people and
overcome fear, and just met up with Pastor. He said that God has been
putting it on his heart to get out and witness. He has been watching the
Way of the Master
television episodes and now he needed to get some hands on experience.
Well, praise God. I know this was the work of God to bring us together.
Here Jeff is studying the Way of the Master evangelism training, and on
his first night out he runs into us. I told him that Michael is a GNN
Seed Sower and that I am the GNN Local Leader (Great News Network) for the Springfield area. (GNN and Way of the Master are sister
ministries). We are always looking for Christians to come out to witness
with us and Jeff wants someone to go out and witness with. Jeff asked
if he could walk around with us…YES!
We began walking around, and
this same Jeff, who said he needed to have more boldness, walked
directly up to the loudest, filthiest talking man in the square and held
out his hand to give him a gospel tract. Praise God for Jeff.
Me and Jeff
Jeff and Michael
At the same time, I was handing out the "Da Vinci Code" gospel tracts from livingwaters.com. A young man asked me, is that for or against the Da
Vinci Code? I handed him one. His name is Bryant and the young lady with
him is named Abby. I explained it was a gospel tract. He said he is a
Christian. I asked Bryant if we can do a role play to show him how we
witness with others. He said yes and I took him through the law and
grace.
Bryant said that he and Abby are with a new
ministry/church that is called Tic Toc Ministries that is located
directly down from the square. He took us there and we met Gary and
Monica Dennington, who leads the ministry. They have started an internet
tv ministry from that location as well. They have a lot more going on
in their ministry that I haven’t mentioned. They were very nice to us
and it was great to meet up with other Christians. We will be keeping in
contact with them.
We made one more pass around the area, passing out tracts to folks. We had a good night.