Introduction

Christians have become so busy that we have failed to extend our churches' outreach past the walls of our churches. Only a few hundred feet from any church there are lost, homeless, and hurting people. Christians are the representatives of Jesus Christ on this earth. The Lord wants so much to love those in this world and He wants His love to flow through you to all the people of this world. All of us need to awaken and allow the Lord to begin a work in this world. So many times the Lord's witness is limited by us. Let's join with the prayers for this world with our actions and share the gospel of Jesus Christ in our streets.

I hope that this Street University will challenge all of those who read it to take their church and their love to the streets. In this book we have included simple principles to share the gospel to the lost. While this book is intended to be instructional, we pray that it is also inspirational.

Every day I am amazed at the Christian love I feel from others as I make friends in the streets. Most of the material shared in this book is from experiences of actual street and door to door witnessing. The Holy Spirit has led me from the beginning of our witness in the streets. I started in the very streets of my hometown and quickly realized that I could not win the world alone. It would take all the churches of this world to win all to Christ. From this beginning, the Lord has led me to train churches in evangelism. We are thankful that the Lord has opened the doors of so many churches to our ministry.

Revelation 3
8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My Word, and hast not denied My Name.

From this simple beginning we are going from church to church equipping Christians to share the gospel. We have called our ministry Mercy Street Ministries. It is our desire to share this simple method of evangelism in all Christian churches of the world. We trust that you would join with us and extend your hand to your neighbor and begin to care for those in the streets that you have never met.