The adventures continued as I trailed Mad Mike, The Long Island Loudmouth, to another location on the Huntington Pier after he preached—from the pier—to surly surfers between sets during a recent Ambassadors’ Academy evangelism bootcamp…. He now spotted some guys on the south side of the pier engaged in a very fevered volleyball match. Undaunted by the
I learn all kinds of stuff when I go to the Ambassadors’ Academy, a four day intensive evangelism bootcamp from The Way of the Master. Even though I go as a team leader, I am amazed at what some of the “students” do when encouraged to do more than they think they can do. Case in point: I met
The great unsaved masses can be a dangeous and fickle lot. They’ll love ya one moment and the next? Well… On “Good News Tuesday” morning I met “Righteous Richard” at the Hawthorne DMV. Despite his wife being diagnosed with cancer he joined me for a quick open air evangelism session before about 70 people. The Governator’s budget impasse has
“I can’t get Jesus out of my head!”
Those were the words of a very lost, confused and suicidal young man who visited our “Free Intelligence Test” booth at the Fiesta Hermosa street fair last Labor Day weekend.
The conversation started with him coming up to me quite aggressively and stating, “Why are you doing this? No one cares. No one cares about Jesus.” He then proceeded to tell me some truly awful things that happened in his life. The statement that caught my attention was when he said “I can’t get Jesus out of my head.” He made some type of profession of faith years ago, and I believe that God was calling him back through us, here at the fair. The young man then suddenly disappeared into the crowd to get drunk.
The “Einstein I.Q. Test” drew the crowds; we didn’t have to go out to them, they came to us.
And nearly everyone gets the three sentences in the triangles wrong when they read them. (How did you do? See below for the correct readings.)
Then we lead them into another very fun questionaire that gets people laughing, until we transition into the Gospel presentation. Ed Lee, one of our church’s evangelism leaders and an Ambassadors’ Academy mentor, said that at one point people were lined up five deep—and this is to hear the Gospel (of course, they didn’t know that they would hear it)!
We had over seventy-five volunteers man the booth. And to recruit them, I had to use strong arm tactics that the Gambino Family would have admired. Still, I knew that “non-evangelists” would get excited after they took this step of faith. Here’s one quick testimony:
“It was so exciting to see how many people were willing to wait to have someone talk to them about their “test” even though they knew where the conversation was headed by listening to people ahead of them. I talked to people non-stop for 2 hours and had the thrill of listening to MANY of them pray for forgiveness and salvation. I was SO BLESSED to be a part of that. Thank you for making me sign up for it.”
At the end of the 3-day weekend, we had gone through almost 500 questionaires, and about 20,000 tracts. We preached at the bus stops to untold hundreds (see that preaching here), and many novice evangelists found out how rewarding it was to do something for God.
As Ray Comfort likes to say, “You will go out dragging your feet, but you’ll come back clicking your heels.”
Get your free down-loadable I. Q. Test tracts by clicking here.
Einstein I.Q. Test answer: “Bird in the the hand,” etc.
(Read what happened at the Memorial Day Fiesta Hermosa here.)
Here are some of the questions we use for this test (these were formerly carried by Living Waters, but are now discontinued.) Make your own surveys and see how fun it is!:
IN-N-OUT Preaching
That’s right. This man preached inside IN-N-OUT Burger. Before you pass judgment, watch the 3 minute video then read the back story and my commentary below. Then let me know if you think this was proper. You never know what can happen during an evangelism outing. People get fired up, God moves and… well, just
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