Pastor Fireman has replied critics on his use of hot girls as poster for advertising his church.
Last
year, We saw the above poster of Pastor Fireman advertising his church.
So this came as a shock to many who didn’t think it was normal for a
pastor to use this approach.
It
has been almost a year now but a lady, Whitney Chad, supposedly Pastor
Fireman’s rep has now addressed this issue in a message to Myne
Whiteman’s blog.
The “Hot Girls” flyer of Sign Fireman caused quite a stir recently. Different people had different things to say about it.
According
to the pastor: “The point is that God sent me to bring Twenty-First
Century innovations that will change Christianity and make it have more
results. Let me give you an example.
“Recently,
believers do soul winning among believers, Churches “wins souls” from
another church. That is not soul winning, that is souls transfer.”
“They
are fishing in the frying pan. Real soul winning is reaching out to
sinners and getting them saved.To do that, one has to go to where
sinners are!”
“That
is how Jesus did it! “And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the
house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and
his disciples” (Matthew 9:10).”
“And
it brings criticism! “And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat
with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, how is it that
he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?” (Mark 2:16).”
“Jesus
reaching out to sinners was misunderstood, but He didn’t care. Here was
Jesus’ response to the criticism: “wisdom is justified of her children”
(Matthew 11:19). He called strategy for reaching out to sinners
“wisdom,” and said that, contrary to the claims of critics, the strategy
is not justified by how it looks but by its results!
Our
Hot Girls flyer was a Twenty-First Century evangelistic innovation! We
wanted to reach out to harlots. We wanted to take call girls off the
streets around the location of the church.
One
of the times Jesus appeared to me He taught me that, to catch a fish,
you have to use bait! Hence, we designed the flyer with a caption that
would attract them! Contrary to the criticisms of critics, the strategy
worked! Hundreds of girls were saved, including so many call girls.
We gave those call girls money to move from the hotels and brothels to their own houses, capital for business, machines for starting their business, and we sent some of them back to school.
Today,
many of them are still saved, working, schooling, and some are even
married! As Jesus said, the results have resoundingly justified the
strategy!
I believe in hardcore, revolutionary evangelism; not the frying pan fishing that many churches are doing today!
Like
Jesus did it, real evangelism involves our risking being misunderstood,
and reaching out to unbelievers wherever they may be found.
Let’s stop playing nice and launch out and do real soul winning!”
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