RE: [Awake4HisReturn] The Gun Belt Gospel
Like the pastor at this church,hes talking about starting a revival. He has the right idea but the people in are the ones who need to be revived. They may be good people but they come in the door like zombies and leave the same way.when you worship god you refresh your spirit. He knows they need to worship god but its hard to get them tm move
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Date: Friday, June 10, 2011 8:02:42 am
To: Awake4HisReturn@yahoogroups.com
From: "Michael J. Knight" <michaelnight82@yahoo.in>
Subject: [Awake4HisReturn] The Gun Belt Gospel
The Gun Belt Gospel
The streets are empty. Neighbors peer carefully between drawn curtains
wanting to see but not to be seen. Muffled whispers pass on to others
the scene in the street. Out of the quiet footsteps are heard. Down the
street strides the confident gospel slinger, the Bible firmly in his
clutches. Unseen bystanders utter quiet gasps. Curtains drop back into
place. Silence envelopes the neighborhood as all wait, hidden behind
closed doors, for the unwelcome guest to walk on by.
Like a bad cowboy movie from the 1950s, many Christians today employ an
evangelistic technique from the same decade. Ride into town, find as
many "prospects" as possible as quickly as possible, unload your gospel
ammo, and move on to the next quiet burg.
The problem isn't door-to-door evangelism. While its heyday has passed
in most communities, it can still be effective in some cases. The issue
is the gunslinger mentality that many bring to the task, the idea that
the lost are targets to be acquir
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