Church bothered by urge to share gospel?

Becky Yeh - California correspondent ? (OneNewsNow.com) Wednesday, July 10, 2013

A pro-family activist says he was threatened by police and church leaders in one California city for peacefully holding signs about sharing the Christian faith.

Activist and author James Lambert says he was threatened when he stood outside a San Diego church with signs that encouraged Christians to share the gospel. He was perplexed on the first Sunday, when he was allegedly confronted by one of the pastors who asked him to leave the sidewalk upon which he was standing. He claims the pastor was angry and contacted local authorities to remove him.

"One of the pastors there refused to shake my hand and talk to me and immediately asked me to leave the sidewalk that he claimed belonged to the church -- the public sidewalk that went up and down the street," Lambert accounts.

The following Sunday, Lambert says no church leaders tried to stop him. Instead, local authorities arrived and threatened that if he showed up again, he would be officially cited and possibly arrested.

"Sometimes I have a simple message of asking Christians to share their faith, and that's all the signs were all about," he asserts. "They weren't nasty; they were very polite, and they were just asking for Christians to share their faith, and they talked about some of the statistics about the surprising number that do not."

He has since contacted the church and received no response.

Source: http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2013/07/10/church-bothered-by-urge-to-share-gospel

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