Repent and Witness U of M
This week, Shawn Holes, our Evangelist brother who is traveling the country with his family winning the lost for Christ was here in Minneapolis. I decided to join him at the U of M and we also were joined by the E-Life ministry from Northwestern College.
We started at Coffman Union, which heads a mall which had at the other end Northrup auditorium. It is a natural amphitheatre, and the sound bounces well and is amplified well for voices. We did open air at Coffman, and it was so well amplified two evangelists came from the other end to see what was going on! We joined them for a time and that was a real encouragement. We were also able to get in several one to one conversations with students who wanted to debate things like evolution, many roads leading to God, etc.
The best spot was on the bridge overlooking the bus stops. There was a new crowd every 15 minutes. We were able to open air there all day on Friday. It was great, and we even were able to engage some people in conversation. It is amazing…amazing how the midwest differs from the coasts. There is a lot more engagement with people walking by and arguing their point. The only engagement we had was with some horribly lost people who stood by us and read rules to the fight club and text from a textbook to try to over talk us! It was great to see security come and move them away. Before they left, we had a great conversation. 
Later on in the night we had a booth on the mall, and handed out candy and tracts and had some great one to one conversations. Both Shawn and I were speaking with some young Christians who were not living their faith out. They had some objections to open air preaching and confrontational evangelism, but were not participating themselves. We encouraged them to examine themselves in the light of the scripture.
All in all, Thursday and Friday at the U was a great time, the Gospel was preached, tracts were distributed, and God was glorified. Later on, we will talk about the experience at the bar district in Minneapolis. It was very cool and scary at the same time.
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