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| Re: | | Those pictures sicken me. God willing continue to endure for Our Lord Christs sake, that he may be glorified in your preaching. Keep on! God bless you _________________ Sean Hobson
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| 2006/5/9 21:40 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | [b] Saturday, 13 May, 2006 [/b]
We all met in the city at around 7:30pm for a time of prayer. King George square had alot more people in it than normal. So after we prayed. Tanya stood up to preach.
She got heckled by a Goth, but Tanya was able to deal with the issue, and the Goth seemed happy with the answer then left. While she was preaching a man approached Alex, and asked some questions. So Alex started to witness to him. We didnt think much about it, until Alex came over to us, and the man followed him.
This man was rambling about the Prophet Elijah, and no rain. So I questioned him from the scripture. He wouldnt answer any of the questions. Then he ripped up the tract, and made a statement that sounded like he was a self made prophet. But then he revealed who he thought he was, it turns out this guy is supposedly one of the two witnesses of the book of Revelation.
He was in Brisbane waiting for number two, then they would head over to Israel. Josh Michael started to quote scripture, and the man screamed while walking off.
After this we went up to the Queen street mall to preach. Josh Michael was the first preacher up, and he spoke for about fifteen minutes. Then it was Alexs turn. He preached a great message on smoking, and how it will kill us. Then swung it around to sin.
After Alex I had a preach, within minutes I had my first hecklers. I was preaching on lust, and that seemed to anger quite a few people. But some people stayed to listen to the whole message. Including one guy who was really shook up.
When I had finished preaching, a heckler from the start of my sermon came back, and said he was scared of dying. In fact he said he was so scared he left his mates at the night-club to come, and find out why Christians arent scared of death.
Tanya preached next, and after all this we had alot of great in depth one to ones with people. It appears God is starting to do something as more, and more people are asking questions about eternity.
_________________ Josh Williamson
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| 2006/5/15 11:16 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | [b] Saturday, 20 May, 2006 [/b]
Another fun filled night in Brisbane city. When we arrived we saw a large crowd gathered in front of the city hall. So we walked across to see what is happening, then the sound of many voices singing I am Australian caught our ears, so as we circled behind the crowd, we watched as they sang, then raised their hands as if in a sign of unity.
Then in an instant, the singing stopped, and the people started to quickly leave. So we went back to speakers corner, I got up and started to preach on being a Good Australian, within seconds of starting a lady yelled out that 400 years ago Australia was called South Land of the Holy Ghost, now that spurred me on a bit more. So I opened up the law, and a few people stopped to listen. I only preached for about 7 minutes, as I didnt want to hurt my voice before the main event in the Queen Street Mall.
It was just after this Heather arrived, and so did our friend from last week, the one who believes that he is one of the two witnesses of Revelation. He started to curse, so I asked him not to curse, but he wouldnt listen.
Then while the team was praying, I was talking to him, with very little success. It didnt help to much to have two other Christians tell this foul mouth false prophet that he was saved.
It turns out that those two other Christians had come out just to see how we open air preach, since word had got around to them. It turns out they are from another Street preaching team on Friday night, who preaches the Jesus Loves You gospel.
After this we met up with Cameron, and then we split into two teams to go hand out the Da Vinci code tracts around the movie cinema. It was fairly quiet but we got rid of a few of the tracts to people waiting for the movies.
We then made our way up to the preaching spot, and the two Jesus Loves You preachers were waiting for us with a camera. They wanted to film us, since they havent been able to draw any crowd, and wanted to know how we get them. We pointed out that God draws the crowd, we just preach.
Peter was the first to preach, and he got a few people to stop to listen. He preached on how our life is short. It was a great little message.
I then got up and preached my Booze sermon from Proverbs 20:1, three police officers stopped, so I questioned them, and had them agreeing with me in regards to booze, it didnt look like I would get a crowd, but then a drunk female started to yell, and carry on. She tried to pull me off the soap box, and just wanted us to stop preaching. People stopped, and a man asked about Hitler, and I was about to answer him but the drunk didnt want me to, by the time I dealt with the drunk the man that asked the question had left. But a fairly big crowd was left behind.
So I preached on what Hitler did, and what we have done, also that compared to God we are all fallen, and in need of a Saviour. After the preaching alot of one to ones occurred, which was great, open air is good but having one to ones afterwards seals the deal, and brings it back to a personal level.
After the one to ones, Tanya, Josh Michael, Cameron, and Kevin all open air preached, and contended with the drunk female.
Overall the night was great, and alot of seed was sown. But best of all God was Glorified! May all the praise go to the KING OF KINGS! _________________ Josh Williamson
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| 2006/5/21 9:23 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | [b] Saturday, 27 May, 2006 [/b]
I thought tonight would be a bit thin on numbers, with only four people in attendance for the outreach. But God is always faithful to bring in more seed sowers.
When we arrived up the city, we met another brother who had heard of us through a friend I was on Bootcamp with, so he had decided to come out and join us that night. Shortly after this Alex joined us, so it was a growing force.
We had a time of prayer, and as we were praying a large gothic crowd came over, and sat near us making alot of noise, and one came over and stood in the prayer meeting telling us to stop it.
After praying Tanya wanted to preach to the large gothic crowd, now personally I wouldnt have done it, but Tanya is as bold as a lion. She got out her bible walked up next to them, and began to preach the gospel!
She expounded the law of God for about 30 minutes, and had a homosexual christian come up, and ask alot of questions.
During this time Josh Michael, and Alex went to tract the cinema when the Da Vinci code had just finished, all people took tracts so things were going well.
At 9pm we started to preach in the Queen Street mall, Josh Michael was the first man up, and within minutes he had two hecklers who were very vile. They jumped up next to him, and started preaching about porn. Even having posters, and magazines on display. They kept putting the filth in the face of Josh, so he kept pulling it down, and continuing to preach.
They took control of the situation, so I stepped in as Josh went and did some one to ones, the hecklers were still there, so I went after the leader, and started to hammer lust, and how it would be his evil desire that would sentence him to hell on the day of judgement. He got very mad, he took his shirt off, and I thought I was going to get hit. But I kept hammering lust.
The porn pics were on the ground at this time, and about 8 police officers came up, and took away the two hecklers, but told us to continue preaching. There was a good size crowd present now, so we continued to preach. A council worker came along and cleaned up the porn, and through it in the bin.
As soon as I had finished preaching, the crowd didnt leave. But they called out, Speak some more so Alex jumped up and started to preach. During his message a heckler called Batman came up, and started to heckle. He was fairly illogical but some of his questions were good.
In the end I spoke to Batman on the side, and found out that his name was Scott, and I was able to answer his questions. He left with some gospel tracts.
After Alex finished preaching the crowd was still present so enter the one to one arena, we all started witnessing to the crowd. There were JWs, Seventh Day Adventist, Catholics, all in the crowd, and all got witnessed to, one you catholic that I spoke to got hit by the fear of God, that he was shaking so much, that he had a cigarette to try and calm down his nerves, but he was shaking so much that he couldnt get it into his mouth. Once he got it in, he tried to light it but nearly burnt himself because he was shaking.
I explained repentance to him, and how that would mean he would have to stop having sex with his girlfriend, and wait til he married her to do it again. He said he couldnt do that, so I told him that through his actions he had chosen hell. But God was working on his heart, and he was nearly in tears due to fear. He asked for a bible, and some tracts that he could show his girlfriend as he doesnt want her to go to hell either. Pray for John as God works on his heart.
The rest of the team kept one to one witnessing for a long time after, and many tracts were handed out.
Praise God for His faithfulness _________________ Josh Williamson
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| 2006/5/29 1:33 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | Here is the audio of my "Booze Sermon" as preached in the Queen street mall, in Brisbane. In the background you will hear a drunk heckler.
During this sermon the biggest crowd that has stopped in that part of the mall was assembled.
http://www.australia4jesus.com/downloads/boozesermon.mp3
Feedback welcome. _________________ Josh Williamson
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| 2006/6/2 3:02 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | [b]Saturday, 3 June, 2006 [/b]
Tonight was a good night, with three new people coming out onto the street.
When we arrived in the city, we noticed a large crowd gathered in King George square, so Josh Michael, and I tag team preached. While we were preaching some of the other team members were in the crowd handing out tracts.
At 9pm we went up the Queen street mall to preach, Josh Michael went first, he got a big crowd, that was very angry at the preaching. Now while I would say the crowd wasnt handled the best, but never the less the gospel went out. After Josh spoke to the crowd for about 25 minutes, I stepped in to deal with the angry hecklers.
The first heckler I dealt with was a lesbian named Cookie, she hated the preaching. It turned out that she was sexual abused as a child. So I spent a few minutes pointing out that God will bring into judgement those people that abused her.
Then I went on to speak to her just about sin, and her stance before God. She went from angry heckler to wiping tears from her eyes. The saddest part was she attends a major church in Brisbane who assured her that as a lesbian she is saved.
After the preaching I got to speak to her, and her friends for a long time, they were all open, and they all took tracts. Pray for them.
The team did some witnessing for the rest of the night, til Tanya got up and preached. She did well even though she had vile drunk hecklers.
God worked everything for good, For His Glory! _________________ Josh Williamson
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| 2006/6/5 9:32 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | [b]Saturday, June 10, 2006 [/b]
Rain, Rain, Rain - we have been in drought for some time in Brisbane, but tonight as we prepare to preach it started to pour down!
But we decided to go out, and preach anyway. The it was cold, and wet but six of the team came out. When we first arrived in King George square it was told to us that the Revival Fellowship was having a conference in city hall. So we were expecting a bit of confrontation later on.
After a time of prayer we went up into the mall to do some one to ones. Alex, and Josh went off to tract up the movie cinema with the Da Vinci code tracts, while Imogen and I went to talk to three young Asian guys.
The Asian guys were very open to the gospel, they sat in silence, and it shocked them that if they died they would end up in hell. I was able to explain the cross to them, and they all wanted bibles, so Praise God we were able to give them the Word.
After this I got into a one to one with a false convert from a church in Brisbane that tells everyone that they are saved no matter what they do. So I spent some time talking to him, then after finishing there, a man approached, and informed me that he was a naturalist, and wanted me to prove that there was a God. I told him, I could not prove Gods existence to him since his presupposition was that God didnt exist, and no matter what I said he would have a bias.
He said he was willing to learn, so I asked him about why he thinks there isnt a God, as he thought about it, he said There may be a god, the more he thought the more unstable his belief became. So I pointed him to the scripture, and spoke about sin. He took a tract and said he would be back to talk more in the coming weeks.
Then as I finished talking to him, I saw Alex was surrounded by a large group of youth from the revival fellowship, I was able to help out. Since Alex didnt know how to answer their questions. Now the Revival fellowship says that you must be baptised, and speak in tongues to be saved. Plus they also say Jesus was not deity.
I debated the group for about an hour, and they got mad. But a couple of them said that Jesus was God before they left, so hopefully something got through to them.
While I was debating, Andrew preached open air for the first time. From what I heard, and saw he did very well, and got a nice crowd.
Then Imogen called me aside, as she had a Muslim she was witnessing to, and since it was her first night she wanted a bit of help. The Muslim was very open, and took a bible, and some tracts. After Andrew preached Josh Michael preached, within minutes a drunk came up, and pushed him off the soapbox. So I jumped up next to the drunk, and started to preach. While I was preaching Dr Paul Cole approached, now he was one mad heckler.
He yelled at me non stop for a long time, and wouldnt let me answer. But Dr. Paul kept contradicting himself. A nice crowd gathered, and it turned into an open air debate. Dr. Paul then claimed to be God, and this got a nice crowd of Muslims supporting him, then he claimed to be Allah. That nearly got his throat cut.
The Muslim gang wanted to kill him, they were pushing him, and cursing at him. One was prepared to cut his throat. So we had to get the police to come, and save our heckler.
After the police came I preached for a few more minutes, and then started to talk to people one to one.
Overall it was a great night! All the Glory to God! _________________ Josh Williamson
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| 2006/6/12 6:35 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | [b] Saturday, June 17, 2006 [/b]
Tonight was very cold in the city as we went about doing evangelism, we arrived up in Brisbane just after 7pm, and we ran into a group of Christians so we spoke to them for awhile about street evangelism.
After this we broke of and had a time of prayer before heading up into the mall to preach. At 9pm we started preaching, I was the first to go, and I started with my booze sermon, God brought a nice crowd along to listen, and then He brought some hecklers in to stir the pot a bit.
The first heckler was Atheist Peter, who had alot of questions, but by the end he had back slid and became an agnostic. I was able to reason with him from the view that everything created needed a Creator, and then from how complex the human body is, and how it could not have happened by random chance.
After Peter left, another heckler jumped up, this time it was a pagan, that wanted to know why God allows people to die, but before I could address the issue, another heckler moved in, and this time the attack was against the Word of God. Ray the heckler was not allowing anyone to answer his claims, but finally he allowed dialect to go forward, he put a few questions out, and really didnt have much support for his view point, and he left not long after.
Then it was time for another heckler, this time a professing Christian, so I spoke to him about how Jesus said If you love me, keep the commandments he looked as if he was convicted, and after a bit he moved on to continue his night.
After all this there was still one more surprise to come, this time the Muslim gang from the week before came back, and their leader said he wanted to make peace with me, now I have no problems with him, and I would be fine at the idea of peace, but then he put up restrictions, and in order to have peace I must not talk about Islam, or how Jesus Christ is God. That is something I cannot do, so I guess there will be no peace.
Shortly after this I finished up the preaching only to find out it had been going for an hour, it didnt feel like it. Then it was great as alot of one to ones occurred after the preaching.
After about an hour of one to one, Peter got up and preached for about 10 minutes, with a heckler who sat at his feet, and acted like a child.
But God be praised! His Word went out, and it will not return void!
_________________ Josh Williamson
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| 2006/6/19 1:03 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | [b] Saturday, 24 June, 2006 [/b]
The night started with over 15 people saying they were going to be coming out on the street, which was exciting. But by 7pm we had shrunk to 7 troops.
So we had our prayer meeting at 7:30pm, and while praying a drunk man came up, and started to have a go at us, so we were able to witness to him, and he just walked away angry.
At 8:30pm we headed up into the mall, and the first order of business was to send out three of the guys on a tract run, and tract everyone in the mall.
At 9pm Andrew started the preaching off for the night, he did very well with a decent sized crowd gathering to listen to the preaching. After Andrew then came Kevin with a message from Psalm 24. He expanded on the scripture, and people just stood and listened.
Then it was Peters turn, he preached a well put together sermon. Again more people stood around, and listened. The night was going well in crowds coming to listen.
After this I decided to have a preach, and I preached a sermon I have never done before. I spoke on the Greatest Gamble, a large crowd gathered which was great, I got a heckler from Holland who wanted to argue about God being non-existent.
While he was heckling a drunk man came, and started to heckle. He was vile, yelling things like I want to have sex with little boys, then he started to run around the crowd, and another heckler said Be quiet I am listening, then it erupted. The drunk gave the other heckler, and nice head butt to the face. Then a blood bath followed.
The fight erupted, with a both of them having blood all over them. Then the drunk knocked the other heckler to the ground then stood over him. So the heckler on the ground decided to bite the drunk in the crutch. The police finally came, and broke the fight up. The drunk was taken to lockup, and the other guy to hospital. We were left with a nice big pool of blood in front of where we were preaching.
But we did get to witness one to one with the friends of the heckler taken to hospital.
Things are really starting to heat up on the streets.
[b] Sunday, 25 June, 2006 [/b]
Tonight I was asked to preach to the evening service at church, so I preached on 2 Chronicles 7:14, and about Preparing the way of Revival. Which was a call to holiness, and a turning from sin.
Now there were a couple of really angry people in the congregation, but after the service 4 people came up on separate occasions and said We are not in right relationship with God, so we are going home to make peace with Him.
So God be Praised! _________________ Josh Williamson
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| 2006/6/26 4:35 | Profile | Willo Member
Joined: 2004/9/21 Posts: 355 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| Re: | | [b] Saturday, 1 July, 2006 [/b]
A great turn out of troops on the street tonight. A total of 10 of us running around making Christ known.
When we arrived in the city, we spent time in prayer. Then we made our way to the new preaching spot that council tried to force us into. The new area is dark, and very loud, almost to the point where there is so much noise that you cannot hear the preaching.
Andrew went first, he started to preach and within minutes he had his first heckler, who tried to crawl under our folding soapbox, and then tried to pull down Andrews pants. When that failed, she turned to the camera and went to flash it, but her pants were to tight for her to pull down. So then she decided to crawl under the soapbox again...
Andrew spoke to her on the side while I got up to preach. I started in on death, and used Hebrews 9:27 as my base scripture. My first heckler was a girl named Sarah, who wanted to reincarnated as a chocolate frog. She was a good fun heckler, who grew a crowd to preach to, but then heckler Wendy came back, we had her a few weeks ago. She was a drunk that heckled us for about 4 hrs in the past.
Wendy sat down next to the soap box, and started to hit my boot, and pull on my pant leg. Then she started to say things that you couldnt understand. So I ignored her, then she started to hit me in the shin. Then Wendy made a new friend, she spotted my pastor sitting listening to the open air preaching, so she went to talk to him.
It was his first time, that he had been on the street with us, so it was interesting to watch him interact with Wendy who wanted to talk to him.
After the open air, alot of one to ones occurred. As the amount of people being witnessed to increased, so did the loudness of the music in the mall, so I went and spoke to a council cleaner. He gave permission for us to return to our normal preaching spot, at the top of the Queen street mall.
Peter was the first to open air preach at the top of the mall, then a man came down after Pete had finished, and demanded that we continue to preach, as he wants to hear the truth. So I started to preach, and a nice crowd gathered. I had one heckler who ended up acting out the court room analogy I used. Which grew a bigger crowd.
After going through the gospel, and girl yelled question What about Gods will, how can you go against it?, so I answered by saying that sin was against Gods will, but she didnt like that answer. So again she asked, before I could answer I heard a voice from the back of the crowd. It was my pastor, he stepped in to answer the question. So I gave way, and let him jump up, and preach open air from there.
He went for awhile before wrapping it up, then handing it back to me to close the night. After that one to ones occurred for a good 50 minutes.
Praise God for a great evening!
[b]Sunday, 2 July , 2006 [/b]
For the past few weeks we have been advertising an Way of the Master evangelism training day ([url=www.wayofthemaster.com.au]www.wayofthemaster.com.au[/url]) occurring at Beenleigh Baptist Church on July 8. Apart of the advertising we have been allowed to show video clips from the Way of the Master training DVDs.
So tonight we showed one of Ray Comfort witnessing to a man from the Fear of God episode. A few people liked the clip, and then went on to register for the training day. I didnt think anymore about it.
Then on Monday morning my Pastor called me, and said that he had just got a phone call from a man that was at church the previous night, the man said While watching that clip, I realised that I am not a Christian, he then went on to ask the pastor what he had to do in order to be saved.
Praise God for his faithfulness!
_________________ Josh Williamson
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