Can a woman be a open air preacher?

[Rolfe]

Yep, because seeing a woman standing on a soapbox and yelling at people for being sinners is so inviting and engaging.

Street Nagging...

 

[Magister HD]

Street Nagging...

I feel bad for finding that so funny. But I did it anyway.


David

 

[Alcott]

Can a woman be an open air preacher?

I suppose. How many women are CLOSED air preachers?

 

[HankD]

When I was young before going off to Calvary University we did open air preaching in the Boston Common.

My wife came with me but she didn't preach, she gave us (men) support by talking with women in the audience who seemed interested and handing out tracts. We also made sure there were always men who kept an eye on things as there were those who wanted to make trouble.

In those days we also had competition from the Hare Krishna folks who would come clanging and gonging by also chanting their mantras.

Productive? well who knows Boston is a big city. Plant (the seed), another waters, God gives the increase.

To be honest, I thoroughly enjoyed those days of street preaching.
We even talked with the hare Krishna people about their need of Christ.

HankD

 

[Revmitchell]

Women open air preach all the time. They preach to the air while their husbands aren't listening.

 

[Jerome]

Can a woman be an open air preacher?

I suppose. How many women are CLOSED air preachers?

This one:

Los Angeles Times: Passenger Insists on Preaching Loudly from the Bible on a Red-eye Flight

Flight attendant Elliott Hester recounts:

I was forced to wrestle a passenger to the floor [and] restrain her with airline-issued flex cuffs

halfway through the eight-hour flight on a Boeing 777...[she] shattered the silence with an ear-splitting...Bible verse

one of my colleagues leaned forward and snatched the Bible from her

[she] pushed past the main-cabin divider curtains and was marching toward the front of the aircraft....
“You must give me my Bible,” she said. “The people…they need to hear...”

she told me that "God sent me here to speak … and everyone must listen to me."

 

[Miss E]

I believe that a woman is not permitted to preach in the church, but sharing the Gospel with people outside is perfectly acceptable. I even hope to become a street evangelist one day (I would call it that rather than street preaching), and as a woman, I think that God would not rebuke me or any woman for sharing His son with unbelievers.

Edit: Furthermore, I think, as long as one is doing it in gentleness and love, it doesn't matter HOW the Gospel is presented to people. (i.e sharing one on one or shouting it on the rooftops) as long as one is fulfilling the Great Commission and actually proclaiming the Good News, I think that is acceptable.

 

[Salty]

This one:

Los Angeles Times: Passenger Insists on Preaching Loudly from the Bible on a Red-eye Flight

Flight attendant Elliott Hester recounts:

What happened on the flight was wrong - whether the speaker was a male or female.

But to answer the basic question - NO

 

[canadyjd]

For all you men making jokes, when was the last time you shared the gospel in public? Oh, that’s not what God has called you to do, huh? Just let the paid holy man do that kind of work?

Wasn’t Debra made a prophet because no man had the courage or conviction to follow the will of God?

As long as the gospel is being shared, I pray God bless the effort, male or female. Does that harm the cause of Christ in the world? I don’t think so, but be convinced in your own mind.

peace to you