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Greg Laurie on Finding the Cynic in the Crowd

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Harvest America 2016 may draw up to 60,000 people between the main stage at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and the thousands of simulcast locations Sunday evening, but the massive evangelism event's founder Greg Laurie says that he will focus on an individual come time to step into the pulpit and preach.

"When I speak, I'm not so much addressing a crowd, I think of an individual," Laurie told The Christian Post earlier this week. "It's hard to wrap your mind around a crowd of 30-, 40-, 50-, 60 thousand people — in fact you can't. So what I do is I think about that person that is cynical that didn't even want to come in the first place ...

Though I'm speaking to a crowd in reality, I direct my remarks as though we were having a conversation — me and that person that's in attendance."

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/harvest-america-2016-greg-laurie-i-will-talk-to-the-cynical-individual-even-if-60000-attend-sneak-peek-158956/#G8iGGJp7EgSdQ2VB.99

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