Does open-air preaching push people further away from God?

I say amen, but may I add this.

That word “dead” in trespasses’ (in Eph 2:4-5) comes from the Greek work ‘nekrós’ (νεκρός), it is an adjective. By short definition this ‘nekrós’ means that before a person was saved (born-again), they were ‘metaphorically and spiritually’ DEAD, dead as a corpse in a graveyard. They are inoperative to the things of God. Which means because they were ‘dead’ (before salvation), they are not able to “choose” Christianity, nor “ask” Jesus into their life (nor heart), nor be pushed further away from the Lord. 🙂