On this edition of Street Fishing Podcast...
Allen emailed me asking for a short list of books that have influenced me. After the Bible, these are the books that have most impacted my life:
Holiness, by J.C. Ryle
The Gospel According to Jesus, by John MacArthur
The Kneeling Christian, by Anonymous
A Pastor's Sketches, by Ichabod Spencer
The Christian Hero--A Memoir of Robert Annan, by James Macpherson
George Whitefield (Vols 1 and 2), by Arnold Dallimore
The audio you will hear in this episode was from my first day at Augustana College, a private liberal arts school in Rock Island, IL. Augustana has a student population of about 2,500. On this day, I took up a position on 7th Street, in an area where students cross to get from one area of the school to another. I decided to distribute a gospel tract I wrote titled: "What Comes After Pride." You can see and read the tract, HERE.
Things were quiet until I met a student named Sabrina. She professed to be a Christian, but was incensed about the gospel tract. She was offended about the inference to the LGBT community. While the gospel tract makes no mention about the sin of LGBT-ism, because of the design of the front of the tract, the inference can be made. As you will see in the video, I could have and should have done a better job owning that fact. Not long after my conversation with Sabrina, I was confronted by a group of students from the schools LGBT organization. Other students soon joined them. Although the crowd was raucous and at times some people therein were blasphemous, profane, and/or lewd, I was still able to preach the gospel to the crowd. I also was able to have meaningful conversations with several students.
You can watch the full, 90-minute video of my ministry in the midst of chaos, at Augustana College, HERE.
