'Extreme' Venues Offer Evangelist Prime Witnessing Opportunities
by Allie Martin
March 9, 2005
(AgapePress) - A new resource is available for Christians who want to be bolder in their witnessing efforts.
Last summer, Mark Cahill headed to the annual "Gay Pride" festival in Atlanta and spoke to hundreds of people about their beliefs regarding heaven and hell, God, and the afterlife. Cahill released the DVD of his conversations titled "Pride Goes Before Destruction: Witnessing on the Streets of Atlanta."
The former Auburn University basketball player says regardless of a person's sexual orientation, he uses the same strategy when witnessing.
"Just because someone's sin might be different than our sin or something like that, you do get to the main point -- and the main point is we're sinners," Cahill says. "I walk them right through the Ten Commandments. You share repentance.
"Then of course you talk about what Jesus did on the cross and His blood that washed us pure and white as snow," he continues. "Then His resurrection sets Him apart from every other religious figure that's ever walked on the planet."
The evangelist explains another of his techniques. "One of the things we try to do is kind of go to an extreme place, so to speak, so [others] can watch and then ask: 'If those guys can go a gay and lesbian festival in Atlanta, who can't I share my faith with?'
"So we try to do this so people can be encouraged and know that if they'll talk with us there, who won't really challenge us in a crazy world with tsunami waves and Johnny Carson dying and an Iraq war."
Cahill says it is "an interesting world for lost people" because they are really looking for a lot of hope. "We we have that blessed hope in Jesus Christ," he says.
Allie Martin, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
