Open-Air Preaching

Here's my growing list of open-air preaching posts, quotes, and as I find ones worth recommending, resources. I'm only going to link the resources I like best, and there's a lot of stuff I don't like. For future reference, this page can be found under "Compass" on the right side-bar.

MY POSTS

1. *The Gospel in the Open-Air Again | start here
2. Guidelines for Open-Air Preaching
3. Open-Air Preaching is Optional?
4. Missional Open-Air Preaching
5. Steps Toward Open-Air Preaching
6. Open-Air Preaching, Gospel Power, & Interruption
7. Preaching Has Great POWER
8. The Future of the Evangelist

QUOTES

• The Dismissal of Open-Air Preaching | Spurgeon
• Open-Air Preaching and Revival | Richard Owen Roberts
• What Is Preaching? | John Frame
• Need for Hundreds of His Noble Order | Spurgeon on Flockhart
• The Great Benefit of Open-Air Preaching | Spurgeon
• Beyond the Walls of your Meeting House | Spurgeon
• Faces Set Like Flints | Spurgeon
• The Ultimatum of God | Spurgeon

MY RELATED POSTS

First three are precursors to the open-air series above. I didn't know they were going to spark so much on the blog. 

1. The Public Square and the Open-Air 
2. The Kids Downtown
3. Know Your City - Remember the Poor

• Why Jesus Taught In Parables: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 - these written with open-air in mind
• 10 Commandments for Reluctant Evangelists

RESOURCES

Charles Spurgeon

Lectures To My Students | Two chapters on open-air preaching. Easily the most helpful stuff I've read on the subject. I believe he shows the best grasp of the goodness of and need for open-air preaching. His teaching on the how, where, when is just as relevant today as ever. Principles stay the same.

Open-Air Preaching: A sketch of it's history and remarks thereon | Not sure how much of this is from Spurgeon's book or elsewhere. 

Michael Green

Evangelism in the Early Church | One of the key sources I've used to think about open-air preaching as seen in the Bible.

Thirty Years That Changed The World: The Book of Acts for Today | There's a small section in which Green talks about Acts preaching and then proposes some ways to do open-air today. I don't love all his suggestions, but it's worth checking out.

Guidelines for Open-Air Preaching

Thanks for the great response to yesterday's post on a call for sane open-air preaching: The Gospel in the Open-Air Again. I believe God is doing something. I really do. Keep commenting as we all need (at least I need) this discussion so we can figure out what this would look like in America today.

After that post, I received a link to some videos from @FrankFusion. Honestly, I'm shocked at how good this is, and how well it explains the practicals of open-air preaching, who should do it, what you shouldn't do, how it fits with local churches, and tons more.

This is exactly what we need to follow up my previous post and figure out how to do this. Would love to know if your reaction to this is as positive as mine.

The first video is a shorter excerpt from the second video on whether you preach apologetically or preach Christ. Really good. It made me want to watch the second. The second video is an hour long and well worth the time. Check the PDF that coincides with the video (found below the video here). You can also download the audio. Under the second video below are the points discussed and the times where they start on the video. Those talking are Kevin Williams and Ryan Skinner.

1. How do I know I am called to street preach? 00:00:44

2. Taping yourself open-air preaching and putting it up on youtube, why? 00:03:40

3. What does bad and good open-air preaching look like? 00:05:43

4. Is “drive by” open-air preaching wrong? How important is a local church? 00:09:00

5. Is it important to be part of a local church and have accountability? 00:12:28

6. How do you respond to the hatred you are met with? 00:13:49

7. How important are one on one conversations? 00:16:15

8. Are you going out in love? 00:17:37

9. Is doing “shock and awe” evangelism biblical? 00:20:12

10. Do people understand the Christian terms that you are using? 00:24:25

11. How important is it to have scripture memorized? 00:25:32

12. Is it important to know the LAWS of the land? 00:26:11

13. Is Christ or Apologetics your Focus in Open-Air Preaching? 00:28:07

14. How do you engage a heckler? 00:33:17

15. Where is a good spot to open-air preach at? 00:36:01

16. Don’t let getting large crowds become an idol. 00:40:56

17. Are there open-air preachers who are lost and not saved themselves? 00:42:45

18. Be careful to not appear self-righteousness while open-air preaching. 00:46:17

19. Advice on answering people’s questions in the open-air. 00:49:35

20. What should the length of my message be? 00:53:56

21. What makes a solid gospel tract? 00:55:03

22. Is it biblical to hand out cartoon gospel tracts that are gimmicky? 00:56:04