The highlight of our year as an evangelism team is crashing the A.N.S.W.E.R L.A. anti-war protest that was supposed to be held this Saturday. But no…. It’s been canceled! Soooo… we are going to go to the re-scheduled St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Hermosa Beach. Mweet at Hope Chapel at 10am to walk down together!
An atheist named LOGICAL asked: “I have a question for you. Why do you see evangelism as such a good thing? It seems to me that you would want people to find religion (particularly yours) on their own, so that there would be no question about their faith. Because to me, and this is only from my observation and could be interpreted as opinion, it seems like you and many other evangelical preachers are trying to scare people towards Christianity with threats of eternal damnation and torture through hell.”
My answer: I see evangelism as a good thing because God sees it as a good thing. Christians are commanded to “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.” (Mark 16:15)
In the book of Romans, the Apostle Paul writes: “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” (Chapter 10)
So, not only is evangelism a good thing, but those who do it have beautiful feet! (And I’m telling you, I’ve got some nasty looking toes.)
It’s also a good thing to warn those who are ignorant about an afterlife because it isn’t Heaven for everyone, and it’s never just “in the ground” at death.
This is from TheExaminer.com—“Being an atheist can get you killed. Authorities in Texas report that a soldier was shot and killed because he did not believe in God.” Read the rest here.
Oh noooo! It happens on occasion. Our scheduled outing to the Hermosa Beach St. Patrick’s Day Parade was rained out. (Fortunately, they rescheduled it for next Saturday.) Nevertheless, here’s a report from 2008 when the weather was a wee bit better. (And read the reasons why we consider parades to be a vital part of
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