No Witnessing Allowed!
Now, where would you expect to see such a sign? At a meeting of Atheists, at some meeting of Satanists? Well, just about the last place you would expect to be told you cannot witness about Jesus is in a Bible school or Baptist church.
Nevertheless, these are the end times. These are days of Apostasy. In this time of Apostasy, old- fashioned witnessing is not looked upon very highly within some so-called Baptist circles. The same can be said for many lukewarm New Evangelical churches and schools as well.
I once attended a prominent New Evangelical university. If I were to tell you the name of this school, you would possibly recognize the name. At least once a week, I was in the custom of sitting down with other students in the school cafeteria, and then get into a conversation with one of those students. I would then ask that person for his or her testimony and then, if such a testimony was not a salvation testimony, tell him or her about the loving Jesus.
It was not long before I was called before the Assistant Dean of the school to be disciplined. This man was very upset that I was telling people at the school about Jesus. He said that he had received some "complaints" from some students who had told him about my witnessing. The Assistant Dean then put me on probation for two months. He told me that if he received any further complaints during the next two months, (of my witnessing to students on campus), I would be expelled from the school.
After sitting in his office, I felt like I was in Hitler's Germany, or in the former Soviet Union. I felt like I had been called before the KGB for "questioning". And this was a so-called "New Evangelical" university. NO WITNESSING ALLOWED!
Now, why would the Assistant Dean of this major so-called "Christian" university be so upset about my talking to students about Jesus Christ? Why would my trying to save students from the flames of Hell get this man so "out of whack"?
The answer to this question seemed rather obvious to me at the time. Every potential student of the school was required to fill out a so-called "testimony" sheet when applying to the University. Many potential students would lie and just write out a false testimony in order to get accepted to this school. All students of the school were therefore assumed to be Christian sheep and not lost goats. My act of telling such lost "goat" students the Gospel of Jesus Christ was seen as questioning the validity of the school's application process.
If some question about the validity of the school's application process were to "get out" to the public, then donations (money) and possibly new students (money) might be affected. It would therefore be better, (at least in the Assistant Dean's eyes), to let these lost students burn forever in Hell, rather than let the proud reputation of the school get even slightly tarnished by my witnessing to such lost students about Jesus. It was simply a matter of priorities -- and Jesus did not come first. To this Assistant Dean, the school's authority and reputation came before the eternal souls of its students.
On another occasion I was caught witnessing on a major secular University nearby. The "Campus Police" escorted me off of the campus using two university police cars with lights flashing to make sure that I indeed had left the campus. I felt like Hitler's SS Men had come to "take me away". This was a secular University. NO WITNESSING ALLOWED!
I found that this attitude towards witnessing can sometimes be found within Baptist churches as well. Some Baptist pastors have actually told their people that they are "not allowed" to talk to new people about religious matters for as much as six months and even for as long as two or three years! No, such witnessing to those who have started to attend their church is "not allowed". Only the pastor and deacons are allowed to witness about Jesus to those lost souls. NO WITNESSING ALLOWED!
Some Baptist pastors have even forbidden their people from talking about Jesus with those they meet on "evangelism". No, such lost souls were to simply be "invited to a party". The name of Jesus was not to be mentioned, nor the fact that they were (in actuality) being invited to a church. No, that would be witnessing, and witnessing about Jesus and the Bible by the people would not be tolerated.
Those who should dare to witness about Jesus knew the risk - the very real risk of being expelled from their church for committing the "sin" of disobedience to the pastor. Putting Jesus and the Bible first was therefore called a sin, a great sin worthy of being "shown the door" and losing friends of a lifetime within such a church. NO WITNESSING ALLOWED!
Of course, a Christ-less evangelism effort certainly does makes a mockery of the term "evangelism", the "Good News" that is all about Jesus. This "Good News" to lost sinners is His death, His burial, His resurrection from the dead, and the forgiveness for sin that Jesus offers to sinners. It is also direct disobedience against the clear commands of Jesus and the Bible that Christians are to go into all the world and preach the gospel.
Do you have "evangelism" in your church, (telling people the "Good News" of Jesus)? Do you talk to people about Jesus, (and not just about a "party")? Many good Baptists and other Christians have suffered greatly over the centuries for their "crime" of witnessing to others about Jesus. The Great Roman Catholic Whore has caused millions of Baptists and other Christians to suffer torture for witnessing about Jesus and the Bible. Many have even been beheaded.
This persecution against those who tell people about Jesus will still happen in the future as well. One day very soon, the Antichrist and his Roman Catholic Great Whore will behead all true Christians because of their insistence upon following Jesus and the Bible above all other authority. It will be "No WITNESSING ALLOWED!" in that day all over the world.
Do you hate witnessing? A couple of decades ago, there was a book put out called "I hate witnessing". It was a book by a so-called Christian who hates to obey Jesus and the Bible by telling people about Jesus. The fact is that many so-called Christians today hate to tell people about Jesus. If you call yourself a Christian but hate the very thought of telling other people about the beloved Savior, then your problem is with your heart, that you are not in love with Jesus.
Does this statement describe you? Are you still in love with Jesus? Were you once in love with Jesus but have long since "lost your first love"? Are you instead a lost person who has never actually been in love with Jesus because you love the world and not Jesus?
If you are lost, then you need to come to Jesus that he might save you from your sins. Only Jesus died on a Cross and shed His blood to pay for your sins. Only Jesus can save you. If you do not have Jesus Christ, then one day you will "die in your sins". If you die in your sins, then this means that you will spend all of Eternity burning in the flames of Hell. Is that what you want?
Come to Jesus and let Him wash away your sins in His blood. Come to Jesus and let Him forgive you and give you an eternal home in Heaven. Come to Jesus and let Him give you a new heart that loves both God and your fellow man.
Trust Jesus while you are still able, while the Spirit of God is still drawing you to Jesus. The day will soon come when it will be too late for you to come to Jesus. This could happen if perhaps you die without warning, or else the Spirit of God has stopped drawing you. Therefore, don't put it off. Your eternal soul is too important. Come to Jesus today!
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