"No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light." - Luke 11:33
Time: 4:30 - 6:15 pm
Main Happenings:
1) honks, waves, some thumbs up.
2) A passerby called the police on me. A police officer stopped by to talk to me to see what I was doing. He said he got a complaint that I was shouting obscenities and swear words at a passerby waiting at a red light.
3) An evangelist by the name of Bill Doby parked in a nearby parking lot, honking, and waved for me to come over. He introduced himself, wanted a picture of me and my sign for his Facebook, and we got to talking.
Sign Held:
The police was called on me!
Jesus saith in John 15:18-19, "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." Also in Matthew 5:11-12 Jesus saith, "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." I guess I experienced a very mild form of these today when the police was called on me. Either somebody hated what I was doing out there, or it was some sort of prank. Now I'm not saying I'm going to get all these great rewards in heaven for this little thing, but, those verses DID come to mind. Namely, because it was evil against me falsely.A police officer stopped in the nearby parking lot and came over to talk to me and find out what I was doing and all that. He told me that somebody had called the police with a complaint that I was shouting obscenities and swear words at them while they were parked at the red light. Of course I did no such thing, and I never once opened my mouth to anybody, and don't say a word when I'm holding my signs.
He said, "Ok, well, just stopping by and seeing what you're doing, and I even agree with what you're doing and your holding signs and all. Just make sure you aren't blocking traffic and shouting obscene things at people, disrupting peace, that sort of thing." But that got me thinking about street preaching. "Street preaching is still legal isn't it?" I asked, because I wanted to make sure things weren't getting worse in regards to freedom of speech. He said of course. "There's a Planned Parenthood up the road," saith he, "so perhaps there was some anger from somebody from there or something."
Then, right before I was about to leave, somebody from the nearby parking lot was honking at me a few times. When I turned to whoever it was I noticed he was motioning for me to come over. He introduced himself as Bill Doby (giving me his card), who is an evangelist that likes to take the gospel to the street and do other activities. And of course I was interested right away. His website is www.final-days.org, but the site is expired at the moment, nothing came up. So I asked him if he needed any help: I could accompany him holding signs or doing whatever else. He said he is in the process of planting a church himself, so he will contact me to further talk. So we'll see what happens. He told me he left a church of 13 years because the pastor was against his street evangelism. He said the pastor would never visit him when he did it nor give any encouragement! He also took a picture of me holding my sign to post on his Facebook.
Other than that, got my usual rounds of honks, waves, and thumbs up.
