Professing Christian Yells I’ll See You In Hell

Ministry Update July 12, 2015

Friday night was a real blessing to witness downtown in Springfield, MO with my friends. Along with Aaron, Erica, Diana and Elise, we praise God that Anton joined us. He’s the man that was broken last weekend and he went to Aaron’s church last Sunday. Anton sung hymns with us and he stayed for the preaching and helped us carry our stuff back to our vehicles. Then he asked that they make sure that they pick him up for church this Sunday an hour early for discipleship training. Kelly’s friend Alexander also joined us again Friday night, even though Kelly couldn’t make it. 

After we sang hymns. I brought a message about how good it feels to be clean. A kid named Tommy buzzed by me on his skate board during the message so I talked directly to him for a while. At the end I offered free Bibles and Tommy came over and asked me for a Bible. May God prompt him to read it and believe it. Then Aaron brought a message about Peter walking on the water and he pointed out that some people live at the line of sin, but Peter was far from it.

He wanted to be farther away from a sinful life and be closer to Jesus. He pointed out that through faith in Jesus we can be saved and cross the line of salvation. While he preached a couple of guys walked up and quietly mocked Aaron and videoed part of his message. Erica went back and offered them tracts, but they refused them.

Overall, it was quiet up to that point and the crowd was pretty small. But when we sang hymns at the end of the night, a woman walked up and asked us if Hell was made for the devil and the demons. We said it was (Matthew 25:41). Then she said that proves that humans don’t end up there. We took her through some Scripture that contradicted her beliefs. We pointed out Isaiah 5:14 and Revelation 21:8. But she just kept arguing that people don’t go to Hell. Then she started talking about all of us being sinners. She got hung up on us being sinners and cussed a couple of times (including the f-word). We tried talking to her about being a new creature in Christ after we are saved. We talked to her about lying and she said that she didn’t lie before she was saved.

We finally had to ignore her and we started singing hymns again. She started yelling and being belligerent and while she was doing this, her boyfriend sat down in one of our folding chairs and started drinking Erica’s water. Then he stood up and walked over and stole Elise’s Bible and walked off. Erica saw him take it, so Andre and her followed him to the other side of square and retrieved the Bible. After this, the boyfriend called the police on us! We had great favor with the police.

The woman was still yelling, ranting and raving and by this time there was a man with his family sitting to the side of us and they started yelling and going crazy. It was quite the circus atmosphere. The policeman came and called for backup. They talked to the yelling woman and the family, but they didn’t bother us at all, so we kept on singing. The woman eventually walked away and the family did too, still yelling that God is love. They didn’t believe in pointing out our sinfulness and God’s righteousness. They think what we do is wrong and that we should just bring people to God by His love. But we believe the Bible and Jesus called us to repent and believe the Gospel.

The woman on the right was the main one ranting and raving.

When we finished up, the yelling woman was back with a handmade sign and one of the family members that yelled too was back with her own handmade sign. I couldn’t read either one, but they yelled at us the whole time we were packing our things up to leave. We quit responding to them. As we walked away, the ranting woman yelled “I’ll see you in Hell.”

I did yell back, “no you won’t. I won’t be there.” I pointed out that she needed to repent and trust Jesus. I have to admit that I’ve heard professing Christians say some crazy things while we are out street preaching, but I’ve never had one say that they’d see me in Hell. Obviously, she is lost. She doesn’t understand about being a follower of Jesus. I doubt that she even saw the irony in the fact that she said she’d see us in Hell, the very place she argued earlier that nobody goes to. May God convict and convert her along with the yelling family.
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Earlier that day, I went to MSU on my lunch hour. Two ladies were eating their lunch near where I parked so I gave them both tracts. While I brought a message, a young lady turned around and yelled as she kept walking away, but I couldn’t her what she said. A student from Kansas came up to me and shook my hand and thanked me for sharing the Gospel.

Then a construction worker stopped and listened and later on a university employee stopped and listened. I had a 1 pm meeting that I had to get to, so I quit around 12:45 pm and a large bus just dropped off a group of students. I didn’t have time to continue with an open-air so I handed tracts to a good portion of them on my way back to my car. May God bless the tracts and multiply them and may He convict students over their sins and their need for a Savior.

(This ministry update is being shared to encourage Christians to share their faith in Christ Jesus with others. You may never open-air preach, but you can share the Gospel with family members, co-workers and strangers that you meet. You can always tell people your testimony  – how you became a Christian. If you are not a Christian, please go to the Ten Commandments page.)