I was distributed gospel tracts as one of the young men on our Super Bowl Outreach team was preaching the gospel. I noticed a lady approach Peter, who was standing just behind the preacher. I heard the woman say, “This is so annoying! This is so annoying!”
She then walked away from Peter and in my direction. As she walked passed me, I asked, “Would you consider yourself to be tolerant?”
In the brief exchange I had with the woman, she claimed to have her “own god” and that she wasn’t a sinner. By the end of our conversation, the woman walked away with her fingers in her ears.
Here’s the video…..
Shama says
I have to chime in on the whole social goepsl issue. I have tried here in the states to do this from time to time and every time I got burned. When you are dealing with sinful unregenerate people what is their focus? Self. So the more you try to meet their physical needs the more they want. You can become like a Santa to them. They give the wish list and you provide what they want. It just doesn’t work. I’ve also had situations were the person becomes dependent on you and not on Christ. They act like they get it but in reality they are just seeing you as their salvation. When you back off they fall right back into their old pattern of life which leads me to believe their was never any true repentance. As far as overseas is concerned, I don’t know about Europe but I know that in Papua New Guinea and other jungle/third world countries you cannot just invite your neighbor over for dinner If you invited anyone from the tribe you would have to invite them all and that is just not possible. In third world countries they see Americans (white folk) as rich sugar daddies. They will stop working and expect the missionaries to care for them. In the mission that I was working with you were not allowed to give them anything because it would upset their entire village economy. The missionaries brought in things that they needed but they had to work for it or trade goods for it. (what is the verse? If a man will not work he will not eat) Now if someone was going to die or something drastic happened it didn’t mean that the missionaries would withhold care. But they had to be sure that the tribe would trust in Christ to meet their needs not trust in Missionaries to save them. The way they shared Christ with them is they would start in Genesis and teach them the entire Bible. By the time they get to Christ’s death on the cross the tribe really understands why it was needed because they already learned about the need for a blood sacrifice in the Old Testament. Many times entire tribes have come to know the Lord through this method. The difference between them and Europe is that they never heard the truth therefore they never had a chance to harden their hearts to it. I think Europe is just so hardened due to years of rejecting Christ that it appears that the old ways are not working but in reality its not the method that no longer works its that the people no longer respond. We are not responsible for the results we are only responsible to be obedient to the Word. If you gave your entire life to preaching in Europe and only one person was saved that would be worth it.