Evangelicals the most unfavorable religion

[ThereRoseaLamb]

Jesus Christ said…..

Matthew 16:18 KJV
…… I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Mmm humm then evangelicals would be in that number.

 

[Underwhosewings]

Mmm humm then evangelicals would be in that number.

Ephesians 4:11 KJV
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

 

[Dude653]

I remember at the church I used to attend, there was this guy from California who would come maybe two or three times a year and except for a few of us who saw right through his shenanigans, everyone in my church thought he was the best thing since sliced bread
What he would do is throw out what you call Barnum statements. He would say something like, someone in this room here tonight is looking for a special message from God and tonight is your night to receive it. Like okay bro you just described every person in the room
I remember one Sunday morning he said,"I know you can't buy a prophecy, but when someone falls into you in the spiritual, you have a responsibility to respond in the physical*
Which was just a slick way of saying give me your money
He also hosted a *school for prophets"at $70 per class

 

[2ndTimeIsTheCharm]

I remember at the church I used to attend, there was this guy from California who would come maybe two or three times a year and except for a few of us who saw right through his shenanigans, everyone in my church thought he was the best thing since sliced bread
What he would do is throw out what you call Barnum statements. He would say something like, someone in this room here tonight is looking for a special message from God and tonight is your night to receive it. Like okay bro you just described every person in the room
I remember one Sunday morning he said,"I know you can't buy a prophecy, but when someone falls into you in the spiritual, you have a responsibility to respond in the physical*
Which was just a slick way of saying give me your money
He also hosted a *school for prophets"at $70 per class

Lol, he should have called it "School for Profits." Mainly his.

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[Gideon300]

A testimony about being unfavorably viewed

I went to college at Rice University. My first year there everyone was boasting about how they were atheists and mocking Christians, however, I was saved that year and baptized. My next three years we had a prevailing gospel work on that campus that reached every student.

Once I was eating lunch in one of the large college halls. The tables sat ten people and I was sitting at a table at the center of the hall. I could see people standing and eating, especially by the windows, I saw people going up to their rooms to eat because there was no room at the tables and I saw two students sharing one chair at some tables. However, at my table the other nine seats were empty. At first I felt slighted, but then I realized it was like the old westerns where they see the gunslinger come in to town and everyone clears out. We (there were two other brothers who had not arrived yet) would preach the gospel to everyone who sat at our table and after five minutes pray with them. This had transformed the campus. That year the April 1st issue of the school paper was completely focused on us, and mocking Christians, the gospel, and the Bible. We generally had a column in every paper that we paid for, a 500 word gospel message. This paper they would not allow us to do that and instead put in a column designed to look like ours titled "For God, Gold and Glory". One of our gospel contacts came to us and said he thought the flavor on this particular column was off, I just laughed, he actually thought that was our article. But I can tell you everyone was presented with the gospel, every person on that campus was convicted when they saw us. We saw a whole lot of people pray and receive the Lord and we saw a lot of shrieking and outrage by atheists and the enemy.

For example, one thing we did when the attack became very fierce was to go to each college during lunch and hand out tracts to everyone there. We only started doing this when it became clear they were all terrified to be seen sitting at our table. This particular college was the most intense animosity and so I divided the hall in half and gave the other two brothers the easier half. I then went to the central table on my half and walked up to this football player, the "big man on campus" and said "Hey big man, do you want to know why God made you so big?" He froze and didn't say anything. I put this tract on the table "The purpose of Man". Later we were sitting at the table together and the other brothers were shocked that I had gone up to him and talked to him and wanted to know what I had said. We then watched as he was the last person to leave the cafeteria. He took his tray to dishwashers and then on the way out his hand casually landed on the table he had been at, on top of that tract, and when the hand came up and the tract was no longer there. Even this guy was intimidated and scared to be seen by anyone reading the tract or hearing the gospel.

People need to hear the gospel of salvation and what a shame if we are too cowardly to go outside the camp and bear the Lord's shame to do that.

Jim Tour, a Professor at Rice, is also a preacher and even more, an evangelist. He is at Rice because the administration will not discriminate against him for his faith. He endures the scorn of other scientists but he has God given wisdom that they cannot refute. Mockery is no substitute for facts.

We should be pleased when the world attacks us. Christ is a stumbling block and the gospel foolishness. If we are being attacked, it should be because we are preaching (and living) the gospel.

 

[Gideon300]

I remember at the church I used to attend, there was this guy from California who would come maybe two or three times a year and except for a few of us who saw right through his shenanigans, everyone in my church thought he was the best thing since sliced bread
What he would do is throw out what you call Barnum statements. He would say something like, someone in this room here tonight is looking for a special message from God and tonight is your night to receive it. Like okay bro you just described every person in the room
I remember one Sunday morning he said,"I know you can't buy a prophecy, but when someone falls into you in the spiritual, you have a responsibility to respond in the physical*
Which was just a slick way of saying give me your money
He also hosted a *school for prophets"at $70 per class

We have been warned that such things will happen. If God's people are awake, the imposters will be exposed and dealt with.