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Guidelines For Open-Air Preaching
Here are two video which include helpful information not only for open-air preaching, but for witnessing in general. The first video is an excerpt from the full video: “Guidelines To Open-Air Preaching” (second video). At the bottom of this post is the PDF file containing the Guidelines.
Kevin Williams is an evangelist and Pastor in Manchester, England.
Ryan Skinner is a member of Lake Road Chapel.
Here’s the full…
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1. How do I know I am called to street preach? 00:00:44
2. Taping yourself open-air preaching and putting it up on youtube, why? 00:03:40
3. What does bad and good open-air preaching look like? 00:05:43
4. Is “drive by” open-air preaching wrong? How important is a local church? 00:09:00
5. Is it important to be part of a local church and have accountability? 00:12:28
6. How do you respond to the hatred you are met with? 00:13:49
7.. How important are one on one conversations? 00:16:15
8. Are you going out in love? 00:17:37
9. Is doing “shock and awe” evangelism biblical? 00:20:12
10. Do people understand the Christian terms that you are using? 00:24:25
11. How important is it to have scripture memorized? 00:25:32
12. Is it important to know the LAWS of the land? 00:26:11
13. Is Christ or Apologetics your Focus in Open-Air Preaching? 00:28:07
14. How do you engage a heckler? 00:33:17
15. Where is a good spot to open-air preach at? 00:36:01
16. Don’t let getting large crowds become an idol. 00:40:56
17. Are there open-air preachers who are lost and not saved themselves? 00:42:45
18. Be careful to not appear self-righteousness while open-air preaching. 00:46:17
19. Advice on answering people’s questions in the open-air. 00:49:35
20. What should the length of my message be? 00:53:56
21. What makes a solid gospel tract? 00:55:03
22. Is it biblical to hand out cartoon gospel tracts that are gimmicky? 00:56:04
5 Pt. Salt 
Wow! There is so much good advice in the 2nd video. Be called, be prayed up, be humble, love your audience, do not seek to promote self, don’t badger your audience, be willing and ready to disciple converts… and more, much more. Great stuff…
The best advice was the reminder that the power comes from God. This foundational truth is absent from the seeker and emergent junk we see going around today. We are doing God’s work as slaves. We do not do a self-powered work and bring it to God as a gift to Him. Our righteousness is filthy rags…