"...for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,
and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak."
November 2003 Newsletter
"...for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee,
and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak."
NOT COURAGE...OBEDIENCE!!!
The verse above is our travel agent and daily command. Many have asked us how we determine where to go. We do have scheduled events which we are committed to but by in large we go where the Lord opens the doors. As the Laodicean age advances and as interest in publick ministry wanes proportionately, meetings to teach and encourage publick ministry wax increasingly difficult to obtain. We are not exactly booked into millennium. Our most abundant ability is availability. We have a very abundant and fruitful ministry and we look forward to 35 more years of it.
One
of my publick ministry preacher boys has grown up and gone to the mission field of Korea. We are pleased at the work that the Chris Loop
family is doing for souls on the streets of Seoul. Before
Chris left the states he was preaching one Friday night when unsaved Joshua Lounsbury and
his friends Dee-Jay and Kale passed by on their way to a concert. Joshua was raised in a Christian home and faked
his mother out with a false profession at age five. He
got into deep sin as a teen and of that Friday night he write to Chris, “I saw you
standing on a planter preaching the gospel. My
buddies Dee-Jay and Kale went home with tracts and a clear presentation of the gospel. In my mind was the constant memory of the look you
gave me as I had walked away. I saw eyes
filled with compassion and love for my dead soul. I
carried those tracts everywhere I went for about three weeks. Until one night in March I repented of my sin and
asked Jesus to save me. AMEN!!!PRAISE
GOD!!!GLORY, I’M SAVED!!!HALLELUJAH!!!” Anyway, you get the point. He is now preaching on the street and he ends the
letter by saying that his buddies got saved too. Too bad publick ministry doesn’t
work. Ha Ha
I
am so thrilled to have spiritual grandchildren and great grandchildren preaching the
gospel on the streets of the world. I just want to do my part to perpetuate publick
ministry right up to the rapture, then add to the shouting on the streets of gold.
Some
preachers teach that publick ministry has no place in a small community. I have always taught otherwise. There are a lot of different tactics and
approaches for small towns nevertheless, it should be done.
I did quite a bit of publick ministry this past month in the small towns of Walla Walla, WA. and Kenniwick, WA. Aside from the absence of
hoards of people coursing the byways, I enjoyed turning this quiet society upside down,
rattling their cage, and disturbing their “Seventh Day Adventist traditionalisms.” There are two colleges in this area. Walla Walla College, (a Seventh Day
Adventist school) where the students are always enquire in shock as to my presence on
their “Christian” campus. One
glance down lovers lane at break time defines this bastion of orthodoxy differently. Whitman College is named after a great
pioneer missionary to that region, Marcus Whitman. And
that is where the semblance ends. You not
only have to have lots of money to be deceived here, but also lots of worldly
intellectualism. An unhealthy dose of
liberalism is a great asset as well. The
students at Whitman know why I am there but just offer that stupid, silly, inane grin. Both campuses provide ample opportunity to crucify
my flesh; spiritually and physically. We also
thoroughly enjoyed a grand street meeting in Pioneer
Square in Portland, Oregon with the whole Jim Walker family. Our best friends are the ones we can minister
with publickly. Would you like to be one of
those friends?
The
SWAT team was honored to minister in the following church in November. Chinook Bapt., Pastor Rick Ager, Othelo, WA.,
Touchet Bapt., Pastor Mike Paulson, Touchet, WA., Bible Bapt., Pastor Tom Mowery. Yakima WA., Faithline Bapt., Pastor John Murphy,
Milton Freewater, OR., Truevine Bapt., Pastor Rich Glen, Portland, OR. and Truevine Bapt.,
Pastor Ed Ware, Glendale, AZ.
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