Evangelism Linebacker

HT: Tim

A Few Storm Pictures

My next-door neighbor's house

Where I usually park my cars (but for fear of my large tree)

Where I moved my cars (so my tree wouldn't fall on them)

And How Can They Preach Without a Place to Be Heard?

When the first-century evangelists went out, they took the gospel message to the temple, to the synagogue, to the marketplace—places where people where accustomed to hearing public proclamations and engaging in public discourse.

Do equivalent places exist in our present society? If so, what are they? If not, how do we adjust our evangelistic strategies to compensate for the lack of such fora?

To the One Who Overcomes: Part 2

Enthusiasm for present topic appears to be waning (both in the readers and in the writer), so I'll offer one last installment and then move on.

Jesus revealed to John that those saints who were faithful unto death in the Great Tribulation would be arrayed in white garments (6:11; 7:13), that they would serve God continually in his temple (7:15), that they would not be hurt by the second death (20:6), and that they (and they alone) would be raised to sit upon thrones and reign with Christ for a thousand years (20:4-5).

Jesus promised the saints of the seven churches that those saints who were faithful unto death in the tribulation which they were experiencing would be arrayed in white garments (3:5), that they would serve God continually in his temple (3:11), that they would not be hurt by the second death (2:11), and that they would sit upon thrones and reign with Christ (2:27).

Why would Jesus have promised to give to the saints of the seven churches of Asia the blessings that were to be given to the martyrs coming out of the Great Tribulation?