Achievable ends tells a story about something he witnessed a few days ago:

We piled onto one of the enumerable Park City Sundance buses and into the middle of what was apparently “bus evangelism”. A big guy with a huge Defined King James Version of the Bible in his hand, was seemingly in the middle of a multi-way conversation with a group of people – sort of talking about Jesus. He was wearing a Jesus Saves beanie, had a cross on the front of his hoody and was passionately threatening the “unsaved” with hellfire and damnation.

At first, Imbi and I thought it was a stunt. I looked around for cameras. Then I asked an older fellow, “is this for real?” His response, “I don’t know.” I told the gentleman, who seemed a little stunned, that I was a Christian and that I felt this was no way to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. His response, “Oh, you’re a Christian?”

Most of the folk on the bus were attempting to ignore the commotion which continued unabated ‘til they came to the same stop as us. Then the loud-mouthed jerk person said, “OK street team. We’re getting off here.” The older fellow/gentleman above was part of the team, as were most of the people engaged in the “conversation.” (I guess he felt their mission was only to share certain truths – so lying to me was okay.) Is this stuff EVER effective?

Ditto on his question: is the above EVER effective?