Thank You Sir May I Have Another pt. 2

After writing my "Plea to the Street Preachers" I was given godly counsel to send it out to as many street preachers that I could. I knew there was a chance that some would take it the wrong way. I am posting the responses to my plea, so we can all learn from the street preachers where the flaws in my plea were. I want to say this...everyone of these guys has been doing it longer and in more places than me. They make some good points, so I want to share the responses from those that thought I was wrong in saying what I said.

This one is from Ron McRea from http://www.streetpreachersfellowship.com

Brother Young, "open rebuke is better than secret love", and that verse is just aaccurate towards open air evangelists as to the world. Young man, quit talking in generalities and have enough courage to point a finger at who you are talking to and tell them what is on your heart. Lay aside the liberalwritings of Sutek and Mormon newspaper reporters [I have personally preachedat SLC, and questioned every street preacher there about your false statement of street preachers wiping their backsides with their religious material, which you borrowed from the lying news reports...I have yet to find one preacher that has ever done that or saw anyone do it]...and Sutek's illustration about preacher's carrying their tooth brushes was a nameless reference to this preacher, taken out of context and cowardly applied to excuse Gerald's cowardly belief that preacher's should never go to jail forrefusing to quit preaching. Shannon, if you are going to "plea", name the person you are aiming at or just shut up until you have talked to the preacher you are referring to. You are not helping yourself, or any of us. I know a lot of the men on your Cc list, and most have proven time and againt hat they have a broken heart. But a broken heart and a contrite spirit, doesn't fake spirituality, and it doesn't dodge the person's face while pleading to everyone else about him. I agree to a large extent on some of your views, but they are easily gleaned from watching the wrong crowd, who think a loud mouth is a calling from God, and a raging countenance is zeal for the Lord. But no soldier ofthe cross fires buckshot accusations at all street preachers, when God has given you a sword. If you do not have the courage to stick the person you have described, or at least speak to them personally before you plead with everyone about their problem and you are the only one without it, you do noone a favor including yourself with a general nameless plea, howsoever humble. This old man has learned that "voluntary humility" (see Colossians2:18) and hyper zeal are just two ends of the same stick called "fraudulent spirituality". Most of the older men on your list have said and done things that we would never do again on the street. But Shannon, you learn to use good judgment many times by using bad judgment, and where the Spirit of the Lordis, there is liberty. And often times more than we care to repeat, that isthe liberty to make a mistake and learn from it. Howbeit, cowards teach noone wisdom. They only make more cowards. But allow me to teach you a truth about open air evangelism that you can take to stake with you. The love of Christ mixed with experience and a desire to train men for God can always teach a street preacher wisdom, either in word or experience. But you cannot give him back his zeal, once you take it from him, or put it out with the admonitions of a coward's heart to tone it down, because you do not like what he says or how he said differently than you would say it, when you cannot or will not tell him that to his face. God and experience will teach you how to preach to the strong and to the weak. But you take zeal away from a street preacher, and I have found no remedy to give it back to him! A fool despiseth instruction (Proverbs 15:5). However, street preaching is foolishness to them that perish. That alone makes open air preaching a very good place for fools to hide from their secret lives by going overboard in their show boat zeal for God. You will never change that kind of'street thug for Jesus', who for the most part preach in the open against the sins of the private lives. Some of the men on your list, like myself have learned to leave those Rambo's for Jesus alone....they make the rest ofus look better, and they have a tendency to flush out the sissies and cowards, and spiritual fakes, so we can identify both groups! Becauseneither will be around very long. Steer clear of both ends of that bamboo stick and thou shalt do well. But do not throw smoke grenades back into our ranks because you do not have the courage to sit down and face the person you are whining about, or because your voluntary humility moves you to think you're spiritual enough to generalize the sins of men more zealous than you at certain moment. Shannon, sometimes the reason God allows certain men to be overly boldand zealous around you, when it doesn't seem to bother other men more experienced than you, is because He cannot get you to do it, so He has to use the likes of others you now plea against, when Christ said, "forbid himnot, for he that is not against us is for us" (Luke 9:50).