The Lord really seems to be moving in the street evangelism community to mobilize evangelists to preach the Gospel at abortion mills. I am seeing more and more saints, who have been on the streets preaching for a while, wake up to the reality that the Gospel is desperately needed at their local killing center. My hope is that street evangelists will be the bridge to unite sidewalk ministry with the local church, since the local church has been woefully absent in abortion mill ministry for 40 years.
I am so encouraged with the work of some saints in Tyler, Texas. Seth Capps, Mike Anderson, and Mike Peek travel over 1oo miles one way to minister at their closest abortion mill. Unfortunately, however, there seems to be no local Christians at the Shreveport mill in Louisiana who are doing this work. Because of the distance, the team from East Texas is only able to minister there a few times a month. To help bring awareness and call upon Christians in East Texas and Louisiana to join them in this mission field, the Abolitionist Society of North Carolina interviewed Mike Peek about their ministry. It’s such an encouraging testimony of what the Lord is doing in these saints, and the warfare they are waging to save souls and love their pre-born neighbors.
Please do what you can to pass this along that Christians in this region will be encouraged and step into battle: Faithful Abortion Mill Missions: An Interview with Mike Peek
Mike Anderson holds a sign in front of Hope Medical Group, informing the public that babies are murdered there.
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Brian Ottinger
February 28, 2013
encouraging brother. Thats great, and I have also noticed a huge shift in the evangelism community to go stand in the trenches. Its awesome. Praise God He is raising up laborers. My pastor is interested in the next step of how our church can get involved.
Justin Edwards
February 28, 2013
Amen, brother. Really looking forward to speaking with your church and how we can labor together for the Gospel.
Ed Dingess
February 28, 2013
Hey Justin,
When are we going to grab lunch brother? There are a number of statements in these paragraphs that I would love to discuss. For example, what is the criteria being used to mark this activity as the Lord’s prompting? I am not saying that it isn’t or that it is. But I do want to know how you arrive at your conclusions. Secondly, the gospel is desperately needed everywhere, isn’t it? Who determines it is needed over here more than over there? Your accusation against the local church is, in my humble opinion, out of order my brother. The abortion movement commits the fallacy of irrelevant thesis. It assumes that abortion can only be opposed in one way: the way they define it.
Ministry belongs to the Church. The Word belongs to the Church. It is the Church that sends men out to preach the gospel wherever they may go. Your view seems to have this reversed. The Church is not to be bullied or pushed around by street preachers, who, for the most part are self-appointed and self-sent. I do not say this to be mean-spirited, so please do not think this is the case. The apostle Paul laid down qualifications for elders and deacons. The inference is that there is an order to ministry in the Church and that order must be acknowledged and respected by all, especially aspiring leaders. If elders and deacons are accountable to the Church for meeting these standards, to whom are street preachers accountable? I say this because your views are out of bounds in my humble opinion.
The sign in front of the property manager’s office is not even close to the way of Christ. The sign the man held up was created by paper owned by a South African paper manufacturer who uses kids in his sweatshop environment and should they get sick or die, he just replaces them with another. That is really NOT the case, but I hope you can see my point. The gasoline he used in his car to drive to this location benefits rich middle-eastern men who kill Christians and treat women as if they are the scum of the earth. What does that say about him? I was interviewed on truth talk live about this several years ago. Stu was very surprised by my reasoning because I am a conservative bible believing Christian. But he could find no fault with my argument. He knew that if we were to be consistent, we would all end up starving to death.
I hope this email does not upset you in any way or cause you undue stress. I think this is a serious issue, and it would be right for us to chat when your calendar permits. I am available tomorrow if you are. Let me know. I love you my brother. I hope all is well with the family. Take care.
In Christ,
Ed
For errors can never be uprooted from human hearts until true knowledge of God is planted therein. –John Calvin
Justin Edwards
February 28, 2013
Hey Ed, thank you for your comment and I’m not upset at all, brother. I am thankful the Lord has opened this door for us to discuss these things. I can do lunch tomorrow, so I will shoot you a text to follow up. Before we meet, I would like to briefly respond to a few things that may benefit our conversation tomorrow. I’ll break up your questions/points one at a time for readability.
1. what is the criteria being used to mark this activity as the Lord’s prompting?
By activity, do you mean preaching the Gospel or going to the abortion mill to do so? Either way, I would go to Mark 16:15, Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 12:30-31, Proverbs 24:11-12, Proverbs 31:8-9, and Luke 10:37. There are more, but I believe those to be a good baseline.
2. the gospel is desperately needed everywhere, isn’t it? Who determines it is needed over here more than over there?
I believe your first question answers your second question. Because the Gospel is needed everywhere, we must take it to abortion mills. Not because it is needed more there, but because it is as needed there as everywhere else.
3. Your accusation against the local church is, in my humble opinion, out of order my brother.
How so? Do you have evidence that the local church has been faithfully proclaiming the Gospel at abortion mills for the last 40 years, and also that the local church has been engaged in mercy ministries to minister to mothers in crisis? I think one only has to look at the landscape of crisis pregnancy centers to realize the church is not fulfilling this need (and the downside of that this is that CPCs are predominately not Christ-centered).
Also, what do you believe John MacArthur meant when he said a few weeks ago that “our goal must be to wake up the church”?
4. The abortion movement commits the fallacy of irrelevant thesis. It assumes that abortion can only be opposed in one way: the way they define it.
The only way I know to oppose abortion is with the Gospel and exposing the works of darkness. I oppose any movement or organization who does not share this position.
5. Ministry belongs to the Church. The Word belongs to the Church. It is the Church that sends men out to preach the gospel wherever they may go. Your view seems to have this reversed.
I don’t believe I do. I am in full agreement with the ministry belonging to the church, but that does not mean ministry takes place with the oversight of the church 100% of the time. What I mean by that is distinguishing between the office of evangelist and the Christian (who is an evangelist by nature). There is context to the work of the ministry (and the member’s conformity to the work of the ministry), but the Christian spends more time by himself and has a personal ministry as he goes about his day. Maybe this article will help explain my position: https://airocross.com/2012/10/31/evangelism-and-the-evangelist/
6. The Church is not to be bullied or pushed around by street preachers, who, for the most part are self-appointed and self-sent.
I look forward to hearing more about what you mean by the Church being bullied tomorrow. I do agree with you that many street preachers are “self-sent”, who identify themselves as evangelists, but do not have the covering or blessing of the local church. I do, however, make a distinction between a Christian street preacher and a street preacher who holds the office of evangelist. Please see the article previously posted for more on that.
7. The apostle Paul laid down qualifications for elders and deacons. The inference is that there is an order to ministry in the Church and that order must be acknowledged and respected by all, especially aspiring leaders. If elders and deacons are accountable to the Church for meeting these standards, to whom are street preachers accountable?
See previous article and also the two articles mentioned in previous article. I agree with you here, so I’m not sure where you see that I am out of bounds? We can talk about that tomorrow. 🙂
8. The sign in front of the property manager’s office is not even close to the way of Christ.
I really did not follow you with that paragraph, so I’m looking forward to hearing more about it tomorrow.
I hope my responses here have been understood in the manner I intended. Just in case they haven’t, I love you, brother, and I’m very happy to have this discussion. I hope my responses have laid some groundwork for our continued discussion. Text coming your way. 🙂
Ed
February 28, 2013
Thanks for the response. I would prefer to keep the conversation private. I did not realize it would auto-feed onto the web. My bad. 🙂