Open Air Preaching @ the St. Louis Arch

Anytime we get to go out as a group to share the Gospel is a privilege, but this time was even more special. We were able to team up with Tom Burgee this time around who was able to obtain permits and organize the outing. It is such a blessing to team up with fellow laborers who have a heart for the lost and to glorify God.


The day began around 10 in the morning under the Arch where we gathered for prayer. I pondered looking up at the Arch how this represented the gateway to the West and here we would be proclaiming the narrow gate of the cross. We then set out to our various posts around the Arch like faithful soldiers (Ephesians 6:13). The Word was then proclaimed with all those who would listen. Hundreds of tracts were handed out and several divine appointments were held, as the Gospel of Jesus Christ was shared. Tim shared the Gospel with a retired soldier, as Kevin broke the sound barrier that day and started to open air preach.

At 1 o’clock we gathered again under the Arch. This time we organized for what would be a rapid fire session of open air preaching. Tom began by giving the good person test and how he personally failed miserably. Then I (Ken) got up and proclaimed the Gospel in speaking of God’s holiness and how there is only one way to worship Him. Then Travis, Josh and our newly acquainted with brother Eric pleaded with the crowd. So we emphatically declared the finished work of Christ and the command for everyone to repent (Acts 17:30).

We will never know how many hearts were impacted, but we know that the Word will not return void (Isaiah 55:11). So though our hearts were heavy with those that are following the prince of this world, we followed John MacArthur’s message from Together for the Gospel. We sowed and then we slept (Mark 4:26-29), for salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2:9)!

Now we pray and hope someone waters and God causes the increase (1 Corinthians 3:6). We can rest assure on one thing. The Lord has answered our prayer in raising up laborers for there was 14 of us there that day. May God be glorified and Christ receive the reward for His suffering!


To God alone be the glory,


St. Louis Evangelism Team
As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)





Kevin Ford




Ken Bradford




Travis Foley




Josh Anderson




Eric Corrick





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Kelly Kreitner Baptism @ First Baptist Church of Lake St. Louis

Praise the LORD for Kelly and for her obedience to Him! It's only when we see how wretched and unworthy we truly are to stand justified and free before a Holy God do we get a glimpse of the magnitude of God's grace. May our love and gratitude for Christ increase evermore with each passing moment.


Soli Deo Gloria,

St. Louis Evangelism Team

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)

Tony Diesel Baptism @ First Baptist Church of Lake St. Louis

The best way to describe this video is "broken man". When the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached and the Holy Spirit moves it's an absolute miracle the work that is done. How can a man go from loving his sin, completely blind and callous to the things of God... to falling on his face, crying out to God for mercy because for the first time in his life he has seen his sin in truth... crimes against a holy God! (Rev 21:8) This does not happen because he one day decided to step out of the line going to hell and step into the line going to heaven. It happened because the Almighty Creator of the universe supernaturally changed his heart and made him a new creature! (2 Cor 5:17) He has been regenerated (Titus 3:5), justified (Rom 3:23-24) and is now being sanctified. All because he is a good person? NO! Because God is love and merciful and because this act of love and mercy on Tony was in accordance with His good will and pleasure. Tony repented of his sin and put his trust in Jesus Christ!

Soli Deo Gloria,

St. Louis Evangelism Team

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)

Rhea Ford Baptism @ First Baptist Church of Lake St. Louis

After having heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Rhea saw her state before a holy God. She recognized for the first time in her life that she was a wretched sinner and in desperate need of a Savior. She fell on her knees and cried out to God for mercy and He granted her repentance and faith!

On January 24, 2010, Rhea Ford was Baptized by her brother Kevin. Listen to her testimony as she explains in her own words the work that God has done in her!

Soli Deo Gloria,

St. Louis Evangelism Team

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)

COR 27 - Who's Slave Are You?

The message "Who's Slave Are You?" was delivered at the first COR 27 event of 2010 at Bethesda Baptist Church in St. Charles, MO on January 2, 2010. You are either a slave to sin, or a slave to Christ.  Which one are you?  If you are a Christian, you are a no longer a slave to sin, you have been set from from the bondage of sin and death and are now a slave to Christ! 

It is our prayer that the LORD would use this message to move professing Christians to examine their lives to see if the are truly a slave to Christ, or still yet an unrepentant slave to sin?  If you believe you are the latter of the two, repent and believe the Gospel while there's still time.

To Him alone be the Glory,

St. Louis Evangelism Team

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)


Who's Slave Are You? (Part 1)




Who's Slave Are You? (Part 2)




Who's Slave Are You? (Part 3)

COR 27 - The Watchman

"Christian" - You are the Watchman!


Whether you are a Christian, a Professing Christian, or a Know Non-Christian, I implore you to watch this video.  The content is for you.

Do you love your family and friends?  Think about it.  Think about all the people in your life that you hold dear (family, friends, coworkers, neighbor’s etc.).  Think of all of them in your head.  Picture their faces.  Ingrain them in your brain.  Now “Christian” here’s the question, how many of these people do you know beyond a reasonable doubt, scripturally, that are going to spend an eternity in hell.  Here is a real letter written by a real atheist to Ray Comfort, a street evangelist:


Ray,

You are really convinced that you've got all the answers.  You've really got yourself tricked into believing that you're 100% right. Well, let me tell you just one thing. Do you consider yourself to be compassionate of other humans? If you're right, as you say you are, and believe that, then how can you sleep at night? When you speak with me you are speaking with someone who you believe is walking directly into eternal damnation into an endless onslaught of horrendous pain which your 'loving' god created, yet you stand by and do nothing.

If you believe one bit that thousands every day were falling into an eternal and unreachable fate, you should be running the streets mad with rage at their blindness.  That's equivalent to standing on a street corner and watching every person that passes you walk blindly directly into the path of a bus and die, yet you stand idly by and do nothing. You're just twiddling your thumbs, happy in the knowledge that one day that 'walk' signal will shine your way across the road.

Think about it. Imagine the horrors Hell must have in store if the bible is true. You're just going to allow that to happen and not care about saving anyone but yourself? If you're right then you're an uncaring, unemotional and purely selfish (expletive) that has no right to talk about subjects such as love and caring.


James Franz


An atheist even knows you are supposed to, and expects you to share your faith with them if you truly believe what the Bible says and truly love them.  If you truly believed that God is Holy, Righteous, Just, and must punish sin for an eternity in hell, the Bible says in Ezekiel 33 that if your friends and family die in their sin, not having heard the gospel from you, they will “die in their iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.”  Mark Cahill put it right when he said any Christian that does not spread the gospel to their loved ones, really doesn’t love them at all.  They really hate them.  How much hatred do you have to have in your heart to be indifferent about your loved one’s salvation?  How much blood do you have on your hands?  What are you going to do about it?

To Him alone be the Glory,

Josh Anderson
St. Louis Evangelism Team

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)




The Watchman (Part 1)




The Watchman (Part 2)



The Watchman (Part 3)



The Watchman (Part 4)



The Watchman (Part 5)



The Watchman (Part 6)


    

December 5, 2009 marked the second COR 27 event held at Bethesda Baptist church in St. Charles, MO. COR 27 is a new outreach ministry of Bethesda Baptist. Services will be held the first Saturday of the month at 6:00 PM.  Please visit http://bethesdabc.org for more information.


 

Lordship Salvation

Here is a video, I put together on the subject of Lordship Salvation.  Lordship Salvation is simply the new believer, not only coming to Christ in humble repentance over His sin, turning from his sin, and trusting in Him as Lord of his life. Once this takes place, the believer will begin the process of Sanctification, which is a "setting apart" by God.  A growing in Holiness, to conform to the image of Christ.  Many people think, all you have to do is believe a few facts about Jesus, and you are eternally saved.  But its more than just head
knowledge.  True faith, will be a living, breathing, active faith. One that will desire the things of God.  It will hate the things God hates.  Not that the new believer will never sin, but he will hate the thought of sin, and love righteousness, for what God has saved him from. As John Piper stated:  "Obedience is not something artificially added to saving faith later after a second discovery in the Christian walk. It is what faith does because faith is the soul’s cleaving to Jesus for the forgiveness and guidance and hope it needs to be happy. If you don’t do what the doctor says, you don’t trust him. So lordship salvation is not—emphatically not —anything other than salvation by faith (true faith) in the Lord Jesus Christ". In this video, I just addressed a few verses that were on my heart at the time. I was "debating" a few guys on the subject, who believe you
can live in rebellion against God, and not even love God, and still be saved.  As you will see in the video, scripture refutes those ideas.



To Him alone be the Glory,

Kevin Hauk
St. Louis Evangelism Team

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)



Lordship Salvation