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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Set A Fortune-Telling

"A couple of friends and I began to consider how we could communicate the gospel in the French Quarter. As we looked around at all the tables where people would sit down to have their palms read or fortune told, we decided to get in on the action. So one day we set up a table of our own. Right next to the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, we put out a table, covered it with a cloth and candles, positioned some chairs in front and behind, and propped up a sign that read "We'll Tell Your Future for Free."
People would come to the table and sit down with curious looks on their faces. "You'll tell me my future?"
"Guaranteed," we would say.
We were tempted to ask them to put out their palms, but we decided that was taking it too far. So we began by asking them a couple of simple questions. These questions were designed to establish the fact that they had sin in their lives so that we could look at them and say, "Your future does not look very good." Then we would begin sharing how their future could change because of Christ's work on the cross." -Radical

At Gallaudet, we once set a booth for "A One-Man Show" comedy night. I waved at a basketball player, drawing his eyes toward the booth as I invited him over. "No, no, that's not me!" He suddenly walked off. Befuddled, I glanced at our flyers on the booth. I saw that the flyers were sponsored by a church and by a campus ministry. I thought, oh no my friend must have seen the "religious" flyers all over the campus. And he must have misunderstood. The comedy night-stand didn't include any short-sermon, it was a pure comedy night.

How may we lure the non-believers?

A lot of them might reject anything that they thought as the "churchy" thing. It is boring. It is a hearing thing. It caused the division within our friend circle. It hurted and rejected our friend. Or one could think that it makes one lame.

I don't know how to lure them, but there is something hidden. Something creative. And something brand new. Treasures are yet to be discovered through prayers, brainstorms, and experiments.

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