Video Evangelizing the funeral of Palm Springs police officers Leslie Zerebny & Jose Vega (with a four track music finale)

I praise the Lord for this opportunity. I have already seen some fruit after this event. The mother of a police officer, whom was killed years back contacted me. She was very pleased to see this, was encouraged, and she was encouraging to me. Then two officers that were at the funeral contacted me. One was very receptive, and the other extremely angry. Angry at the warning on my tracts, and at the Schoolmaster (the Law). And even angrier of what he later watched me tell the news media via this video. I rejoice in all three responses.

And then many more Christians were encouraged to share Christ with others.

Then a professing Christian that was not at this funeral, criticized me for evangelizing a police funeral. I explained to him that in the ‘dozens and dozens’ of police funerals that I’ve attended, and/or been part of; in perhaps 98% of them, every police officer in attendance is usually ‘preached into heaven.’ Usually by quoting Matthew 5:9 and/or John 3:16 out of context. There was some online discipling going on there.

However at this funeral, I was more optimistic, as one of the pastors for one of the officers (that was saved) would most likely preach the whole counsel of the Word of God, and the Law to these 20,000 souls.

I listened very carefully to both sermons given by each of the officers own pastor(s). Yes there was a huge contrast between them (one weak, and the other more solid). But I conclude that these 1,000 tracts were still very necessary. The more solid pastor preached from Romans 13:1-4, which made the officers feel very important, and “ordained by God;” but I believe they left without understand the weight of their sins, the need for salvation by being born-again, repentance, and why Christ’s atoned for the sins of those that would become saved (His church).

Yes this is one funeral where I regret not having more hands on the deck. Due to the logistics, and lay-out of this funeral, I did not have to work so hard to approach the officers with the tracts (I usually do the burials at the cemeteries). I stood in places where they were coming by me, by the thousands. So the 1000, tracts I brought went fast.

Later a Christian suggested that I should have used signage so that the officers could read the Gospel. I am a proponent of using signage while evangelizing, but not at a funeral. Signage at funerals would look too much like the cult Westboro Baptist ‘Church,’ not to mention it looks more like a ‘protest’, rather than a ‘proclamation.’

“If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord’s will but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumption, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved. Do not suppose that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going to the worldlings and telling them that they may be saved at this moment by simply accepting Christ as their Savior, while they are wedded to their idols, and their hearts are still in love with sin. If I do so I tell them a lie, pervert the Gospel, insult Christ, and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness.” – Charles Spurgeon