"Every Christian here is either a missionary or an impostor." ~ Charles Spurgeon
Here are the students from our 8 week evangelism training class, that persevered to the end of our class. Watch out for these people as they are now well prepared to be a witness for Jesus Christ!
Our Monday night class was from 7 to 9 PM, at the Calvary Chapel church. We studied the Bible, used "The Way Of The Master" Basic Training Videos, and went out weekly witnessing. This group is now sharing the "GOOD NEWS" with everyone, so look for them hitting the streets and the malls.
"He who does not serve God where he is, would not serve God anywhere else." ~ Charles Spurgeon
On November 18th of 2009, we gave away 1,000 copies of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (with a very special introduction) at California State University - Chico (100 other top U.S. universities also gave them to students, 175,000 copies). This is the entire publication (304-pages). Nothing has been removed from Darwin’s original work.
As usual with reprints of On the Origin of Species (there have been over 140 reprints), there is a 50 page Gospel Introduction. In one day, nation-wide 175,000 future doctors, lawyers and politicians freely got information about Intelligent Design (and the Gospel) placed directly into their hands!
Here is a link to view the 50 page introduction which contains the Gospel message (based on the tract Why Christianity? Solving Life's Most Important Question) - http://assets.livingwaters.com/pdf/OriginofSpecies.pdf
This was such a busy day on campus, the Gideons where there passing out free Bibles, mormons were there with a booth, and the "Turn or Burn" sign people where there on campus also. God was trying to get people's attention on this day. We distanced ourselves from all these groups, handed out thousands of Gospel tracts (even the mormons got some) and even witnessed to the "Turn or Burn" sign people telling them they were leaving out Gods grace, and His love from there preaching. (they may be on our local tv, :-( khsl was there)
For more information on the Origin of Species - Origin Into Schools Project please visit: www.livingwaters.com
The On the Origin of Species was given out on the 18th, not the 19th as originally planned. Our strategy changed when we heard that atheists and students had threatened "unilateral resistance," book burnings, protests, and had also threatened to rip out the Introduction. Our agenda was simply to get the books into the hands of the students, without creating a disturbance at universities.
Just decided to create a separate blog for the Gospel for Chico Facebook effort. This makes it easier for people to follow the group effort without having to go through Facebook. Feel free to subscribe to both blogs!
We've also been praying about other ways to reach Chico for Christ and researching these ways. If anyone has experience with these and can provide insight on their effectiveness please let me know. Some things we are considering:
* Open Air revival at the park
* standing on a street corner with a cross
* setting up a table at a our local farmers market on Saturdays
* purchasing a billboard to proclaim the Gospel
* finding a place within Chico to do Project Ezra.
To read other entries in the Gospel for Chico effort please visit the following sites:
I was blessed by going to our Saturday morning farmers market and gave out about 200 tracts one week, and then about the same amount again the next week. I met up with some friends and some people helping them to step outside of their comfort zone. We were asked to move outside the market area due to no leafleting inside the conned off area. Without wanting to get into a huge disagreement we complied and the Lord blessed that.
A lady with 3 dogs needing adoption came beside us and gathered more people than we could hand out tracts to. The next week a man dressed as a clown brought dozens of kids next to us also. Remember that evangelism itself isn't converting people. It is simply telling the message of the good news of Jesus Christ. We don't hope to evangelize. We do it, knowing that God is glorified in it. God commands everyone who believes in Christ to preach the gospel. It is not a guilt-driven burden, but a joyful privilege.
