God is so good.  We have now completely wiped out all our tracts even after getting tons of them earlier this year. This parade was another great time of seed sowing as hundreds of tracts were given out and we had some good witness encounters too.

This guy has REALLY BIG HORNS

Peter and Connie witnessing

A great day of witnessing.  May God be praised and glorified!

     A testimony from Maritza about a group of seed sowers last weekend a the “Gay Pride” event here in town.    

  Connie, Robert and his friends Jake and Sam, and I attended the Gay Pride Fest. We split in twos and decided to start by walking around. I dropped three Million Dollar Bills on the table for the people manning the High Plains Unitarian Church booth where the Religious Education program is based on: faith in community, joy in spirituality, and use of the mind as if were a parachute (the mind works best when it’s open like a parachute). I gave a What if…I’m pretending tract to the lady manning the Episcopal Church booth. She had literature on the church’s support program for people with alternative lifestyles.

Robert witnessing at Gay Pride

     As Connie and I were walking around, a teen girl said hi to me. It was Kirsty, 15. I met her at a church I used to attend. She has had difficulty in dealing with a drug/alcohol addicted mom who ultimately abandoned her. Kirsty lives with her 50-something father near Union and Platte. Ozias told me how Kirsty always had a hard time fitting in the church youth group and how other teens avoided her. When I met her, she was in need of an adult female friend so I took her out to lunch several times. We went over the Gospel a couple of times, but she always came across as I-know-I’m-saved-because-I-believe. We stopped having lunches because she never responded to an invite I sent her in November and December.

     When Kirsty said hi, she was walking by me. She was sporting pink and blue streaks in her blonde hair.

     “Hi. What are you doing here?”“It’s Gay Pride. (Duh!)” “But you’re a Christian. Being gay is against God’s Law.” “I gave all that up! I’m a lesbian now!,” she snapped as she picked up her pace. “You gave up Jesus?” “He never did anything for me!”  “He doesn’t have to do anything for you. He already did everything for you by dying on the cross for you.”  “I don’t care if I go to hell!” I continued to a couple of steps behind her as she would slightly turn her head over her shoulder to answer me, but then look away when I would talk back.  “But hell is an awful place! Aren’t you afraid of dying? Hell is eternal.”   “I don’t care. I’m living my life!”  “But your life is temporary! It’s your eternity that we’re talking about! Aren’t you afraid of dying?”  “I don’t care if I go to hell! I’m living my life the way I want!” 

     I must have walked a half block with her when I either lost her in the crowd or I let her walk away-I don’t know which.

     The hairs on my arms and the back of my neck were standing on their ends. I was shaking. I was also mad. Kirsty’s statement, “He never did anything for me!” reminded me of Warrenesque teaching. The teaching that invites people to “try Jesus” as if Jesus were a used car that you test drive and then return to the lot if you don’t like it. I know for a fact that one of the adult leaders in the youth group Kirsty attended is all over the Purpose Driven Life stuff because Ozias is a witness to this. Ozias told me that at one of the meetings he attended there was a breakout session. The Purpose Driven adult leader told the kids sitting at the table with her to, “try Jesus for thirty days and if He doesn’t work out for you, I’ll give you $100.” Ozias dropped out of youth group soon after that and a month later, we left the church.

     Though I shared the Gospel with about six other people later that day, I couldn’t shake off Kirsty’s words or the fear of her destiny. I kept thinking about how many teens are out there that are just like Kirsty. I’m not blaming that church or its youth leaders for Kirsty’s falling out. I simply want to point out the importance of biblical evangelism. Robert talked to a teen boy who was at GP by himself. The teen told Robert that he attended church service at a nearby church and that his mother knew that he was at GP.

     Connie pointed out that many of the teens at the GP were probably there because they think it’s cool to be there and not because they’re practicing a gay lifestyle. It was also sad to see how many pre-schoolers and elementary age kids were at the GP with their parents and grandparents. GP is not a place for kids. GP is a perverted adult event in which children need not attend. As Seed Sowers and church members and leaders, we can help keep children out of events like these by teaching biblical evangelism to parents and their children.

Excerpt from an email from Robert…  email   rsleepyg@yahoo.com   
Greetings Seed Sowers
Here’s an opportunity to love our neighbors! There is a Gay Pride event downtown Acacia Park on Sunday July 19th. It’s starts at 10a and goes until 6p.
http://yourpridecenter.org/springspride.htm
We’ll be meeting at Pikes Perk on Tejon @ 11am then heading to Acacia Park to hand out tracts and do one-2-one witnessing. There will be a few people arriving earlier at 10am.

The plan is to form up in groups of two and talk with, listen to and share the gospel with people around the park. We can start our initial concentration at the entrances into the area, probably Tejon & Bijou and Platte & Nevada. We can adjust as necessary once we get under way. During the parade we can break for lunch and continue to pray.

The main thing right now is to pray. Let’s pray for:
for power and filling of the Holy Spirit
for rapport with the people
for exaltation of Jesus and His Word
for the Holy Spirit to cleanse the area
for the fear of God to fall in the area
for decrease of self, crucifixion of the flesh and complete yielding
for protection from police and physical harm
for the covering of the full armor of God
for the strengthing of weak Christians
for the salvation of souls

If you have any questions, please shoot me an email or give me a call. Take my number for Sunday. 659-8588.

Blessings, Glory, Honor and Power in the name of our King!

robert

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matt 22:34-40

And please join Maritza at the El Paso County Fair in Calhan, CO.  Contact her at saphah@yahoo.com 

El Paso County Fair
I’m going to the El Paso County Fair on the following dates. Problem is that I need an Ambassador or two.

Sat Jul 18 - all day
Wed Jul 22 - all day
Thurs Jul 23 - 9 am - 1 pm
Fri Jul 24 - all day
Sat Jul 25 - 9 am - 1 pm

     We have been at the DMV every morning this week to preach the gospel.  Yesterday, towards the end of my gospel presentation, a supervisor from the DMV came out and told us to stop.  She said that she could “hear us speaking inside”.  To this I asked her if she needed to be saved, and she freaked out and told us to stop, NOW! She said that her rights were being broken, and she did not have to hear what we had to say.  I told her that I would take just a few more moments to finish, and she said, NO!  So I told everyone that we were being kicked out and I did finish speaking of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus. 

     Afterward, we tried to talk to the supervisor about if we were breaking any laws, and she would not talk to us.  So we have decided to keep going back.  We should, however, look to get a “public use” legal form filled out, so we can be “official”. 

     A bunch of local seed sowers are planning on being downtown Colorado Springs this Sunday for the “Gay Pride” parade and festivities.  We will meet at Acacia Park at 11AM and spend most of the day there, so please join us.  We will speak to the folks 1-2-1 and hand out tracts. 

     We will also keep going back to the DMV every morning  this week at 7:30am, so plan to join us there.

Parades are the best for handing out tracts.  Just get there an hour or two before it starts and walk down the street handing them out.  Everyone is just sitting there looking for something to do. 

The “red and blues” are great fun and the $1,000,000 dollar tracts disappear by the thousands(no pun intended :)    We had a bunch of people show up to join in the fun and to share the gospel with the folks in Monument.   This is all of us before heading out.

We usually hand out tracts before the parade and then talk to people reading them later.  Many of them have questions about what they are reading.  Thanks for all your prayers.