Heartwashed

In Exodus 21 we find the scripture that originally speaks of bondservants. John 6:66-68 speaks of the turning point wherein the eleven had their ears pierced with the awl. Few actually become bondslaves after their "first six years" of servitude as normal slaves, I refer to this as an analogy where it refers to time. The point is that at some specific point you will be given the choice to either go away or else follow Jesus as a bondslave, and when that happens, there is no more middle ground.

The man has a right to preach to those kids because of freedom of speech and freedom of religion (i.e. the Great Commission)...however, the constitution is quickly moving out of style. It is not forcing Christianity on someone to give them a tract or to tell them the gospel for the first time, or even subsequent times. It is only forcing if the person says, "I don't want to hear it and we persist in giving it to them." The man in question was giving tracts to and preaching to High School Students who were open to the gospel. Jesus said, "Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God." Unfortunately, an evangelistic disciple's very contact with children could raise questions of motive, because of the possiility, God forbid, that a true pedophile could cite preaching the gospel message as a cover for his actions, the only answer to this being a close watch on anyone who would preach to children. The thing is that it is a very unlikely thing that a pedophile would even know scripture well enough to preach it, because of his sin. The quote written in Billy Graham's Bible holds true: "Sin will keep you from this book, but this book will keep you from sin." Anyway, the guy in question was preaching to kids mature enough to know what his motives were all about, mainly High Schoolers. This to me seems to be the case of a real disciple of Jesus being persecuted for righteousness' sake.