SOAPA - street preaching - thoughts?

fezzik · Postby **fezzik** » May 15th, 2008, 5:33 am

Anybody familiar with the SOAPA - Southeast Open Air Preachers Association?

http://www.soapasn.com/
http://www.officialstreetpreachers.com/2007%20Modifications/menu.htm

They are linked to several organizations of guys who spend their weekends protesting various types of events in larger cities across the southeast. Many of them practice their street preaching through bullhorns, holding signs or sandwich boards with messages such as, "Homo Sex is Sin" and similar phrases.

Would you associate yourself or your church with groups like this? Why or why not?

crispfin · Postby **crispfin** » May 15th, 2008, 5:40 am

Yeesh, who knew these dudes had associations? As for myself, no I would not personally and would not be associated with any church that supported people yelling their message through bullhorns and holding up anti-gay signs. I really don't know what that accomplishes other than making Jesus and his followers look like loons.

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » May 15th, 2008, 7:29 am

Oh yeah. Go to Youtube and search for Micah Armstrong. His stuff is hilarious, and is the stuff of legend on many college campuses.

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » May 15th, 2008, 8:31 am

There's a guy that stands on a corner intersection that I pass almost daily.

He's overweight, slack jawed, and looks like the product of two kissin cousins. He yells into his bull horn at passing cars.

"Aw, Lard! Please save someone taday!"

How does anyone in a passing vehicle hear the gospel??????

I'm torn. I half want to beat the crap out of him.

Postby **Pastor Gary** » May 15th, 2008, 8:41 am

fezzik wrote:Would you associate yourself or your church with groups like this? Why or why not?

Doubt it, unless someone can show me concrete "fruit that remains" that far outweighs the damage done.

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » May 15th, 2008, 8:43 am

crispfinagin wrote:As for myself, no I would not personally and would not be associated with any church that supported people yelling their message through bullhorns and holding up anti-gay signs. I really don't know what that accomplishes other than making Jesus and his followers look like loons.

agreed.

Dr. Ron · Postby **Dr. Ron** » May 15th, 2008, 9:03 am

The rationale for most of these people is " we have allowed the gays and others to go to the streets with their message and we have sat down and allowed them to do this without making our voices known." It seems reasonable in theory....but it transcends what Christ would have done....imo.

The gospel doesn't need defending....it needs to be shared. Our best defense is a strong offense...does that sound in any way familiar?
It is time to go to the lost with the gospel....but that is not the way to do it....

Now, if they want to use a bullhorn to just preach the gospel and not bash any particular group, I okay with that,......have done it hundreds of times on hundreds of street corners.

PastorDaniel · Postby **PastorDaniel** » May 15th, 2008, 2:42 pm

If you go under the featured speakers.....two of them are cogop ministers in Georgia.

Bishop Phipps is our mens director for GA. And Dr. Stephenson is a local pastor and the Chaplaincy director for the COGOP.

I think they got involved in some outdoor crusades that was going on.

Bro. Phipps was even a speaker at their convention.

Susie Hamilton · Postby **Susie Hamilton** » May 15th, 2008, 2:48 pm

Wasn't that State Overseers Pay Assn. Oh wait, wrong thread. My bad.

Mole_J · Postby **Mole_J** » May 15th, 2008, 3:17 pm

EagerBeaver wrote:Oh yeah. Go to Youtube and search for Micah Armstrong. His stuff is hilarious, and is the stuff of legend on many college campuses.

I seen some of his videos on Youtube, I don't know if I should laugh or cry. There are a lot of videos also of other "ministers" doing the same thing.

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » May 15th, 2008, 4:49 pm

Wasn't that State Overseers Pay Assn. Oh wait, wrong thread. My bad.

exactly what I thought Rahab but of course most here have never heard of such

THE RAzEr · Postby **THE RAzEr** » May 17th, 2008, 3:01 am

fezzik wrote:Anybody familiar with the SOAPA - Southeast Open Air Preachers Association?

http://www.soapasn.com/
http://www.officialstreetpreachers.com/2007%20Modifications/menu.htm

They are linked to several organizations of guys who spend their weekends protesting various types of events in larger cities across the southeast. Many of them practice their street preaching through bullhorns, holding signs or sandwich boards with messages such as, "Homo Sex is Sin" and similar phrases.

Would you associate yourself or your church with groups like this? Why or why not?

I was around when there was the SOPA. The STATE OVERSEERS PAY ASSOCIATION of the COGOP. I stood up in the ASSEMBLY to CUT that thing out of the BODY.

that day 12,000 delegates
could have called themselves,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
THE RAzEr

Jude 2