Watch this before you do a street outreach

Hat tip to Liam Kinnon for the video:

If you want to do a street outreach, do it like this. I don’t mean everybody dance (Come on, would I say that?) I mean stop trying to preach at people and make something good, creative and fun that people will enjoy and want to watch. Within seconds of this starting people are watching, then smiling, then talking and laughing and dancing, lost in the wonder of it all, and this, mark you, in a major European rail hub.

I’ve never seen this when christians do an ‘outreach’. Why not? what would be wrong with creating a moment of beauty that brings joy and laughter to a lot of people, without expecting a ‘payment’ in terms of discussions or conversions?

How about, instead of hoping for conversions, we start to try and bring God’s Kingdom wherever we go. Try this for a set of criteria for the next street outreach:

• Well prepared (see video below)
• Fun to be a part of.
• No expectation of a payoff from spectators.
• Pulls people into the sheer joy of what’s going on, so they want to be part of it too.

If you try it, please send a video.

Here’s the ‘Making of’ video, which shows how much went into the piece: