(Not so) Good Friday?
Carol Nicholson is a member of our evangelism team who is very bold in her witness. She sent me this report about a very scary encounter she had on Good Friday.
Yesterday was the worst persecution I have suffered for the Gospel since my salvation. Olga, another sister, and I went to the Redondo Beach Pier holding up a 6 foot cross with the words “Are you ready?” written on it. What better time than Good Friday to pick up our cross and go explain the meaning of it?
As I was preaching and getting ready to read about the empty tomb and resurrection, a man came from behind me, grabbed the microphone from my hand, then yelled to the crowd blasphemous words, insults, mockery—all while denying God, even calling me a devil. Then he wrestled with me, trying to yank the bible from my hands. Since he could not, he started calling the police and 911, saying that he lived in the condos up the hill behind us, and we were disturbing his peace. He appeared to be under the influence of drugs.
I had a chance to read about the resurrection, but by then he was joined by an angry woman— twice as furious—and between the two of them, they went back and forth between Olga and I, cursing us and claiming that they were devils.
But there seemed to be Christians counter protesting. They were yelling into a megaphone and handing out tracts.
People in the march were mostly just yelling profanities at them while the same people came up and talked to me and asked me about my sign which read “Who would Jesus bomb?” Which of those two ways of sharing ones faith do you think is more successful?
John Wesley Persecuted by a Mob
In light of Carol’s persecution by some demonized crazies on Good Friday, I was reminded that some things never change. Read the account of John Wesley’s persecution as he preached the Gospel in Great Britain during the 18th century. See the larger image here. In their mission to bring the Christian message to every town and village in Great Britain,
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