Monthly Archives: October 2009

Ah yes, but the Bible………

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Roger Williams

A middle-aged church-going man asked me, “Why is your church marketing itself like a business?”  I replied by informing him that rather than “marketing” ourselves, we were in fact, fulfilling the biblical command of Christ, who told us “go” not “come.”  In other … Continue reading →

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Prove it.

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Roger Williams

The lady looked to be in her mid-thirties and was of southern European heritage.  She told me that she, “used to go to church,” but had not done so for many years.  She had guilt written all over her when telling me … Continue reading →

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But they did not believe God.

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Roger Williams

I suppose the number of church-affiliated people who told me that they believed in God, in comparison to the non-church-affiliated who said they did not, could have been as high as ninety-five percent.  That figure is purely a guess on my part.  In … Continue reading →

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If words are powerful, how powerful are God’s?

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Roger Williams

I ministered to a lot of deeply hurting, angry and bitter people during my time as a street minister.  So deep seated were these emotions in many, that not only were they affected mentally but also physically.  Chronic sickness in … Continue reading →

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Just about everybody was an expert.

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Roger Williams

In the three and a half years I ministered as a public messenger of the Christian gospel, it seemed that just about everybody was an expert when it came to the Bible.  To the clever and the sophisticated, it was a … Continue reading →

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But they did not tell me that.

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Roger Williams

For the first thirty-nine years of my life I knew nothing about the Bible or God.  I was told something about Jesus Christ in my early religious upbringing, but what that personally meant for me I did not have a clue.  … Continue reading →

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But they still have a god.

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Roger Williams

As a “hands on” public messenger of the Christian gospel in my local community I learned some powerful truths about human nature.  I learned that everybody holds firmly to a belief system (god) regardless of whether they say they believe in God or not.  It was a fascinating … Continue reading →

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You’ve opened my eyes today.

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Roger Williams

Leila was a Ukrainian lady in her early seventies who used to love coming to our church services on a Sunday morning after attending mass at her Ukrainian Catholic church, which was just a few hundred meters up the street.  She was proud of the … Continue reading →

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No rules attached.

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Roger Williams

Ben invited me in for a chat when I introduced myself to him at his door.  He said he was in his late seventies, an ex-digger who fought in New Guinea during the second world war, but now he was, “sick, divorced … Continue reading →

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