Evangelism Adventures for November
This Saturday, November 10, we kick off the Evangelistic Parade Season (which lasts until next next June) with the Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade. This is a gentle, family-friendly event where we get to honor veterans and current military personnel with hearty applause, Gospel tracts and preaching in the open air. (Details are below the
Lost Liberties: Our Scary Lawyer’s Letter
Over the last several years I’ve posted about Christians in the U. S. being harassed by police and
government officials for standing up for their faith by preaching, handing out Gospel tracts or by simply having a Bible study. Mostly these posts have been about other people in other states; this time, it’s about what happened in our own church….
In addition to being the evangelism pastor at Hope Chapel, Hermosa Beach, I also oversee nearly fifty Bible studies that meet in various locations around our community. One of these studies was held in the City of Hawthorne Library. The leader was offered a room to meet in, free of charge, so that he, his wife, and a few others could read through the Gospel of Mark over a period of eight weeks using a book called “One to One Bible Reading” by David Helm.
And they did. For one week.
The second week of their meeting, the Library Administrator informed the Bible Study leader that because of the separation of church and state, they could no longer meet in their private room. They were, however, welcome to meet off to the side in a corner of the library on a first come, first served basis.
I told the leader that we had to fight this because what the administrator told him was wrong. It is against the law to forbid a group from holding a Bible study in a public library!
I called our lawyer. He wrote a letter. It got results. Quickly.
Here’s what it said:
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