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Spring-breakers need to hear full counsel of God
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 3/19/2009 5:30:00 AM
The director of an outreach ministry is disturbed at the evangelistic efforts of some organizations during Spring Break.
Michael Marcavage is executive director of Repent America. For the past two weeks, he has led a group of Christians as they attempt to proclaim the gospel to Spring Breakers at Panama City Beach, Florida. He says while many of the ministries have good intentions, some do not preach the full counsel of God's Word.
"There was one man who was here -- and he comes every year -- and he had set up in one location and...[as] people were passing by him, he would just immediately talk to them and say 'repeat after me' and would just give them what's known as the sinner's prayer. There was no repentance of sin," Marcavage notes. "Also, many of the students on the beaches who profess to be Christians are engaged in drunkenness and also other types of sexually immoral behavior."
It is vital to use the biblical model of preaching the consequences of sin and rebellion against God, according to Marcavage. Only then, he says, will the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ make sense.
Spring-breakers need to hear full counsel of God
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 3/19/2009 5:30:00 AM
The director of an outreach ministry is disturbed at the evangelistic efforts of some organizations during Spring Break.
Michael Marcavage is executive director of Repent America. For the past two weeks, he has led a group of Christians as they attempt to proclaim the gospel to Spring Breakers at Panama City Beach, Florida. He says while many of the ministries have good intentions, some do not preach the full counsel of God's Word.
"There was one man who was here -- and he comes every year -- and he had set up in one location and...[as] people were passing by him, he would just immediately talk to them and say 'repeat after me' and would just give them what's known as the sinner's prayer. There was no repentance of sin," Marcavage notes. "Also, many of the students on the beaches who profess to be Christians are engaged in drunkenness and also other types of sexually immoral behavior."
It is vital to use the biblical model of preaching the consequences of sin and rebellion against God, according to Marcavage. Only then, he says, will the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ make sense.