Martin Luther King Jr. Parade 2009

I'll admit it. I've been lazy. It's been Christmas since I went out and handed out a lot of tracts. Sure I'd do my occasional tract at the grocery store or at a restaurant. But, it's been a while since I did an event. Then comes Martin Luther King Jr. Day and off I go to the parade in Prattville (AL). I'd sent out an e-mail to folks I usually go out with, but I didn't get any responses so I went on my own. I was armed with 300 Million Dollar Bills and 200 of the Giant Money one hundred dollar bills. I got to the staging area for the parade about 20 minutes before the start of the parade. As they staged the floats I hit everyone up with a million dollar bill tract. Then I followed the parade. The folks on one of the floats was holding up their Giant Money tracts (free advertising). I followed that float, people thought I was part of the parade. I handed out millions and giant money to everyone we passed. They were going FAST!! But, I couldn't hand out on both sides of the road, so half the people didn't get anything :-( But, I didn't have enough for everybody anyway. I was by myself, and had limited resources.

The people were VERY receptive and loved the money tracts. Especially the giant money. Like always I told them they needed to read the message on the back, that it was worth more than any amount of money.

What is wrong with this picture?





I do realize that tomorrow is a very significant day in American history. A day that many people thought would never come. We will have our first African-American President. And being born white, I do realize I will never really understand how significant it really is. And this being Martin Luther King Jr. day, it is even the more reason for African-Americans to be proud of King's "Dream" coming true. BUT, on the other hand I see the cross, a symbol of the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior placed along side the picture of man whose morals and beliefs are directly contrary to everything that cross represents.

I'll admit it makes me a little angry. The same way I feel when I see a "W" (the President) sticker beside a "J" (the Savior) sticker on a car. George W. Bush is a universalist and his belief system is contrary to scripture (now is when the rabid "Christians", who think "W" really cares about evangelicals, attack me). I had seen heresy in the belief system of Bush years ago and tried to tell people then, but they called me a "traitor" for doubting Bush. Now I tell people who Obama really is and they call me a "racist". Christians, if they are who they claim to be, should NOT be putting their trust in politicians, but in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I urge each and every Christian to be in prayer for this nation and the souls of those who run it.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm."
(John 18:36 NASB)

All-in-all it was a good day. I passed out over 500 tracts. Also, when I got to the end of the parade route I saw Rafael (one of the guys I've went out and witnessed with before) handing out tracts. It was great seeing him, if I had known he was there we could have met up together. But what was even better....he gave me a ride back to my car at the beginning of the parade route. The Lord DOES provide :-)

What is wrong with the World?

This is a "Sermon Jam" of an excellent sermon preached by Voddie Baucham. Enjoy:




Video by Wretched Sinner @ http://wretchedsinner.blogspot.com/

Present Day Evangelism

By: Arthur Pink

If "modern evangelism" is weighed in the balances of Holy Writ, it will be found lacking; lacking that which is vital to genuine conversion, lacking what is essential if sinners are to be shown their need of a Savior, lacking that which will produce the transformed lives of new creatures in Christ Jesus.

The "evangelism" of the day is not only superficial to the last degree--but it is radically defective. It is utterly lacking a foundation on which to base an appeal for sinners to come to Christ. There is not only a lamentable lack of proportion (the mercy of God being made far more prominent than His holiness, His love than His wrath)--but there is a fatal omission of that which God has given for the purpose of imparting a knowledge of sin. There is not only a reprehensible introducing of humorous witticisms and entertaining anecdotes--but there is a studied omission of dark background upon which alone the Gospel can effectively shine forth.

In twentieth-century evangelism, there has been a woeful ignoring of the solemn truth of the total depravity of man. There has been a complete underrating of the desperate case and condition of the sinner. Very few indeed have faced the unpalatable fact--that every man is thoroughly corrupt by nature, that he is completely unaware of his own wretchedness, blind and helpless, and dead in trespasses and sins! Because such is his case, because his heart is filled with enmity against God--it follows that no man can be saved without the special and supernatural intervention of God.

The teaching of Holy Writ on this point is unmistakable: man's plight is such that his salvation is impossible, unless God puts forth His almighty power. No stirring of the emotions by anecdotes, no regaling of the senses by music, no oratory of the preacher, no persuasive appeals--are of the slightest avail. None but the Holy Spirit can make him willing in the day of His power (Psalm 110:3). He alone can produce godly sorrow for sin, and saving faith in the Gospel. He alone can make us not love ourselves first and foremost, and bring us into subjection to the Lordship of Christ.

But serious indeed as is the above indictment, worse still is that which is being retailed by the cheap-jack evangelists of the day. The positive content of their message is nothing but a throwing of dust in the eyes of the sinner. His soul is put to sleep by the devil's opiate, ministered in a most unsuspecting form. Those who really receive the "message" which is now being given out from most of the "orthodox" pulpits and platforms today--are being fatally deceived. It is a way which seems right unto a man--but unless God sovereignly intervenes by a miracle of grace, all who follow it will surely find, that the ends thereof are the ways of death! Tens of thousands who confidently imagine that they are bound for heaven--will get a terrible disillusionment, when they awake in hell!

What is the Gospel? Is the Gospel a message of glad tidings from heaven to make God-defying rebels at ease in their wickedness? Is it given for the purpose of assuring the pleasure-crazy young people that, providing they only "believe," there is nothing for them to fear in the future? One would certainly think so, from the way in which the Gospel is presented--or rather perverted, by most of today's 'evangelists'! And the more so, when we look at the lives of their 'converts'! Surely those with any degree of spiritual discernment, must perceive that to assure such 'converts' that God loves them and His Son died for them, and that a full pardon for all their sins (past, present and future) can be obtained by simply 'accepting Christ as their personal Savior'--is but a casting of pearls before swine! Because the churches are so largely filled with these 'converts', explains why they are so unspiritual and worldly.