{"id":132,"date":"2009-05-25T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.deserthillspc.org\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-05-25T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T18:54:59","slug":"public-witness-how-tos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/public-witness-how-tos\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Witness How-To’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several local groups of Christians participated in the Grubstakes Parade in Yucca Valley this weekend.<\/p>\n

\"Christians<\/a>
Joshua Springs Christian School Pep Band.<\/strong><\/div>\n

Joshua Springs Calvary Chapel operates a Christian School. They sent their Pep Band. As it went by my position, they were playing the James Bond theme. Very nice.<\/p>\n

\"Christians<\/a>
Yucca Valley Nazarene Church Worship Team<\/strong><\/div>\n

The Nazarene church sent their worship team. The music wasn’t anything I recognized, but it wasn’t obnoxious, and the singer was pleasantly enthusiastic. Another winsome entry.<\/p>\n

Then came these<\/em> people:<\/p>\n

\"Christians<\/a>
Anonymous Kooks<\/strong><\/div>\n

Why are they<\/em>? I don’t know who these people were, or if they’re associated with a local church, but they should be ashamed of their witness. If this is how they want to present the Good News to people, they should go read how Paul did it (Acts 17:16-23<\/a>). Or even Jonah (say, Jonah 3:4,5,10; 4:1-2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Finally, this.<\/p>\n

\"Christians<\/a>
Handing Out Tracts<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n

A guy walked the route passing out tracts. Fine. But look what it says: “Your Parade Guide.” I’m sure that it seemed clever to whoever wrote it — I’ll guide you toward a decision for Christ, which is more important than this parade. But this is worldly cleverness, the kind used to write TV commercials. It’s fundamentally dishonest, because it pulls a bait-and-switch on the reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several local groups of Christians participated in the Grubstakes Parade in Yucca Valley this weekend. Joshua Springs Christian School Pep Band. Joshua Springs Calvary Chapel operates a Christian School. They sent their Pep Band. As it went by my position, they were playing the James Bond theme. Very nice. Yucca Valley Nazarene Church Worship Team … Continue reading »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19,27,36,38,54,63],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","tag-ecumenical","tag-holidays","tag-morongo-basin","tag-music","tag-society","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}