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Session 15: Open Air Preaching

Ray Comfort preaches to people waiting in line to enter the courthouse.

Open air preaching is different from witnessing one-on-one. For one thing you need to raise your voice so you can be heard.

There is more to open air preaching than what can be presented here. But here are a few general guidelines.

Step one in open air preaching is to gather a crowd. You need someone to preach to. In the above video Ray Comfort went to a place where people were already gathered... a line of people waiting to enter a courthouse.

Ways to gather a crowd include running a contest or doing something unusual, such as having someone in a gorilla suit. Or you could have someone making balloon animals. Trying to talk to people walking by on a sidewalk is not effective, as no one hears enough of your message to get interested in hearing your whole message.

Always be respective to the crowd, and keep your message short. Four to five minutes is good.

Do something to draw a crowd. Preach for 4-5 minutes. Then thank the people who are listening and stop preaching. Allow some time for individual one-on-one conversations. Then repeat the cycle.

To learn more about open air preaching we recommend the DVD called "Open Air Preaching" (see below) put out by Way of the Master.

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Open Air Preaching DVD

A DVD from Way of the Master, featuring Ray Comfort. One DVD disk contains the following four programs:

• How To Preach Open Air
• In Season, Out of Season
• Open Air Preaching: New York
• Open Air Preaching from A to Z