I am yet to have a lot of experience with specific evangelistic preaching. So I was really thankful to God for the Saturday night talk at KYCK. The call to become a Christian was driven well from the word of God, passionately by the preacher, and about 40 youths responded to the call to repent and believe, and another 50 or so wanted to recommit their lives to living for Jesus. Praise God.
But I think one of the best things about it, was the next morning. Becoming a Christian is almost always an emotional affair because we need see our brokenness before God. After the emotion of hearing the powerful word of God and having it cut to the heart, at the start of the next mornings session, the speaker asked those who had made a commitment the night before, to stand up so that we could all pray for them, and rejoice with both them and God that they had become Christians.
The speaker also got them to write down the date from the night before, so that each year they could celebrate their birth birthday and their Christian birthday, seeing as they had been born again. Those travelling home with anyone who had made a commitment were encouraged to have a party in the car on the way home to celebrate with them.
What a great idea to make sure the emotional nature of needing to get right with God was not just a one off, but rather the beginning of their Christian walk.
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