Little Five Points (Atlanta) Where Jesus is a Fable and Psychics Pray to Beans

Hello Everyone,

It didn’t hurt me in Little Five Points to be a female walking by the “Psychic Sisters” store along the sidewalk to set up the booth, passing women arm in arm. One woman, dressed like a man, approached the table, and I offered her anything for free. I held up a couple of testimonies we keep on file from former lesbians who have come to know Jesus. Though the suggested material upset her, another woman overhearing our conversation took both of the testimonies from “Mary” and “Kim” on how they left the lesbian lifestyle for new life in Jesus.

I stopped in a store to get a bottle of water, and the cashier was talking about what she wanted for Mother’s Day. She said, “I sure would like to have some cheesecake.” Then another idea dawned on her as she announced, “Wait a minute. I will channel it.” Looking up to the ceiling, pausing from her work, she repeated with her eyes closed, “Cheesecake, cheesecake. I want some cheesecake.” I thought to myself, I am right where I belong with this table outreach. I returned to give the lady some materials exposing the New Age paradigm of “The Secret”, and she said she would read the materials later. (The Secret is a book promoted by Oprah teaching essentially that people are gods…)

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A psychic came up to the table who tried to convince me that Jesus never even existed in history. I replied, “I could give you some documentation from a historian named Josephus who wrote about Jesus from A.D. 90-95, and I could tell you about the Talmud (the Jewish oral tradition and commentaries A.D. 70-200) referring to Jesus as a real, historical person, but it would probably do no good, right?” She announced emphatically, “I don’t want to hear about any of those fairy tales. Jesus never existed, I am telling you! I pray to beans, Honey, and get results! Oh, I could tell you stories about the powers I have and the spiritual encounters I have received as a psychic.” I interrupted, “I am sure you could.” I asked, “Let me ask you another question, do you believe in Satan?” About the time the woman said she did not, the Christian working there with me prayed out loud, “‘Lord Jesus, she does not even believe You existed! Lord, help us.’”I told the lady that it seemed there was nothing I could tell her if she was not open-minded and free thinking enough to consider something other than her pre-set beliefs, and off she walked in the direction of Holy Mother (a store in Little Five Points just down from our table.)

Another man, overhearing the conversation, also purported that Jesus never existed. I said, “Do you want to look at history? Does the truth not matter?” He eyed some of the materials for atheists on our table and said he felt sorry for anyone of any faith. I smiled and said, “Sir, I believe your spirit hates Jesus so much that you would be one of those people yelling ‘Crucify Him! Crucify Him!’ if He made Himself known to you.” That comment seemed to take him aback, and he calmed down admitting once again, “I don’t believe He ever existed.” I answered, “Well, if you ever want to know the truth about whether or not He existed, come and see me, and we can look at what history says, apart from the Bible.”

Some gothic teens passed, and one asked, “Hey, what is with the hat you are wearing about Israel?” I told him that I love Israel and the Jews. He said, “But, you are a Christian, right? How can you love the Jews?” I answered, “The question is how could I not love the Jews? Jesus was Jewish, and I spend a lot of time reading from Jewish people when I read the Bible.” I took out a sheet of Bible references to show some of the 300 prophecies Jesus fulfilled from the Old Testament to New. The guy took the sheet, and said to his friends, “Hey, this is pretty cool stuff, “ inviting them over. They were all Catholics and took materials for Catholics as well as our red brochure warning of the “Occult Nightmare” for gothic teens. Another teenager probed further, “So, you are a Christian and like the Jews?” I answered, “Everything about my faith is Jewish but me.”

About that time an intoxicated college student came over, and she took materials for addicts we have from the Radio Bible Class called “When You Just Can’t Stop,” written by Christian counselors.

A Christian couple stopped, and the man said, “I used to be involved with Kabbalah.” I asked for his testimony, and he had a wonderful testimony of how Jesus is his Lord today. I added, “Yeah, the Kabbalah Center really lies when it teaches that all religions come from Kabbalah. When Jesus said, ‘Repent or you will die in your sins,’ (Luke 13:3) that did not come from Kabbalah!” We agreed that Kabbalah is the same old lie—people are gods. The couple took sermons and copies of Jan Markell’s radio programs on “Understanding the Times.”

Several copies of the books The Light That Was Dark and After Death: What Then? were taken, as New Agers also found tracts on “Spirituality, A Matter of Choice?” and “Magic” of interest. One conversation in particular broke my heart. There was a man involved in occult spirituality. I asked, “Do believe demons are real?” He answered, “Yes.” He started to cry and asked, “How do I keep them away?” I gave him a Bible and turned through the pages to read him all about the love of Jesus and His power over demons, explaining that our protection is Christ Jesus alone. (James 2:19, Mark 1:23-26, Luke 8:26-36, Matthew 8:28-34, Acts 4:12)

Please email me if you are interested in joining me in missions in the Atlanta area at Little Five Points this summer, and I will add you to an email list of people interested in working with me there in apologetics and evangelism. I plan to be out every Saturday from 3-6 (at least), when I am in town. [Directions from Buckhead: Go toward Piedmont Park on Piedmont Road; turn left on Monroe (at Cowtippers); turn left on Ponce de Leon (at Popeye’s); turn right on Moreland (with Chevron on the corner) to Little Five Points. I will be setting up right down from The Vortex, just up from Holy Mother, across from the police station. See photos for my spot on the walkway under the tree. Please don’t come without checking in with me, because I do travel sometimes on the weekends to sing in churches and share about our mission work.]

An apology:
My lap top crashed since the last update, and I had to get all of this ministry’s data retrieved from my damaged hard drive from a Data Recovery company. I now have all of my contacts and emails, but I was without contacts for two weeks. Please forgive me if you have made donations, and I have not gotten in touch. We appreciate every single donation, as we need every penny, as we are also praying about expanding to do a table outreach of evangelism in Pakistan with a pastor there. Prayers are also for God to let us start a table outreach in Argentina and Ireland.

“…For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all that I might win the more. And to the Jews, I became a Jew that I might win the Jews...To those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, that I might win those who are without law. To the weak, I became weak that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. And I do all things for the sake of the Gospel…” (1 Corinthians 9:19-23)

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law, but thanks be to God who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:56-57)

"I simply argue that the cross should be raised at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves on the town's garbage heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan they had to write His title in Hebrew and Latin and Greek...at the kind of place where cynics talk smut and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died and that is what He died about. That is what churchmen ought to be and what churchmen ought to be about." --George McLeod


With Jesus as my Friend,

Dwayna