Halifax Busker's 2008 - Kirk Open Air - Waterfront (pt 1)

This video is of Kirk open air preaching on the Halifax Waterfront during Busker's 2008. He decided to do something different this time... a "mock funeral." We actually began to gather a crowd before it began, but as soon as they found out it was preaching, they took off. It was really quite sad.

This is the first session of the "mock funeral," but the second session became very interesting. However, we were no able to get it on camera. Eric thought he pressed record, but it didn't record a single thing! That's okay, it's probably better that we didn't get it on film. The lady who freaked really embarrassed herself. So here's the story...

Kirk usually brings up a popular news item about death to get people thinking about it. The latest one would be about Tim McLean. He brought it up because Tim McLean woke up that morning and did not expect to die that day. Kirk also brought up the fact that what that man did to Tim McLean was very wicked (and the man was wicked for doing it). No harm done... right?

A lady wearing a black cowboy hat was standing there, appearing to be awe struck. We thought she was very interested in what Kirk was saying, so Kirk asked her, "M'am in the black cowboy hat... what do you call someone who tells a lie?"

Her whole facial expression changed, she looked disgusted, and replied, "A CHRISTIAN!" and spat on the ground, stomping away. Kirk called something out to her to get her to come back, and she turned around, stomped up to Kirk about a foot away (and very close to Sarah's head!) started screaming in his face! She began accusing us of being like the Westboro Baptist group, and that she had started a group on Facebook trying to keep them from Tim McLean's funeral. Kirk basically said "Good for you! You should oppose Westboro Baptist... they aren't even Christians!" The lady then looked startled, as if she was not expecting that. She continued to scream at the top of her lungs telling us that the man who killed Tim McLean is mentally ill, thus the murder was not his fault.

Long story short, security came, who then called the police, and the police politely asked us to leave. I guess the waterfront is private property and they can kick off whoever they feel like for whatever reason they want. So we left... but we came back later! :)

And no... WE ARE NOT MORMONS! I know the white shirts with the black ties looked very Mormonesque, but we didn't realize this until some of the guys were walking around, and people were looking at them strange. I warned them not to go off in two's. However, they seemed to have a great idea so that people wouldn't think they're Mormons... they said that they could pretend to be a boy band!

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[Sedalb]

Sorry mates, I have more respect for people who do good because they want to rather then people who do good because they don't want to burn in a fictional hell.

This must have been irratating, I live in Halifax... many tourists walk on the waterfront and I'm sure they now have the wrong impression about this city.

[threehappypenguins]

People must get the impression that there is nothing to do in Halifax but post silly comments on people's videos that you disagree with.

Calling hell fictional is like a convicted criminal calling the electric chair fictional.

Christians do good (something that is please to God because of what Jesus did) not because they are afraid of hell, but do good because they are incredibly grateful to God for not giving them what they truly deserve for sinning against Him.

[Sedalb]

So everything that questions your religion is silly... good thought process.

Also, if you want say I'm stupid for calling Hell fictional, you it'd be better if you followed through with proof of its existance.

And if you do Good for God and not out of fear, then what's with all the scare tactics to scare people with Hell to believe what you believe?

[threehappypenguins]

You mean to say that if you have children, you're not going to tell them to look both ways before they cross the road because you don't want to use scare tactics to scare them with "fictional cars" to get them to believe what you believe?

Read the bible and listen to your conscience for proof.

There is a sense in which you obviously are not stupid, but there is also a sense in which the bible says you are (ie: the 'fool' says there is no God; Psalm 14).

[polkacafe1]

Hello, I also have a personal relationship with the Lord, but I would be embarassed by this display at the waterfront. The Lord usually beckons me to make a difference in somebody's life. But by putting on a public spectacle, I feel that it pushes people away. The Lord wouldn't want you to do something that causes management to call the Police. I think you should be a friend and make an impact. People respond to you by who you are and what you do, not by how many Bible scriptures you can recite

[threehappypenguins]

Essentially you are saying the same thing of Jesus, Paul, Peter, and many great open air preachers like Whitfield, Spurgeon, etc. The bible commands that we go into all the world and preach the gospel. Do you think Jesus didn't have the "police" called on him? What would you call the religious leaders of his day? What about Paul getting dragged away and stoned for making a "public spectacle" of himself. If you are going to disagree with something, then back yourself with scripture next time.

[Derwydd3]

Ten suggestions lol!

[spideycentz]

@threehappypenguins -Explain II Kings2:23-24 Cant wait to see what delightful wickedness you use to justify this one. holy bible should be call "Idiot Book".

[aRogueBedUser]

I think people are getting the impression that it's a "busker act" because you put "Buskers" in the title. Just sayin'...

[Sedalb]

Also, the Bible isn't exactly a great source... Espectially the old testiment. Swearing punished by death, Ox hurting someone else punished the death of the Ox and the owner. Earthquakes caused by God shaking four pillars. The Earth is Flat. Whales are not mammals. Moon makes its own light. Giants existed. Unicorns existed. Dragons existed.

If there were an all knowing being, surely he wouldn't make this many errors unless it was a book written by men.

[Sedalb]

I never said God didn't exist... I simply cannot prove he doesn't exist because in doing that I'll be a idiot... there's no evidence he doesn't exist, I can't possibly prove that. Just like I can't prove Zeus, Thor, Apollo etc doesn't exist.

However, I have yet to see proof that God exists, so I won't make a big fuss until I see it. Don't get me wrong, there are some really great people who have faith, but there are also others who see fit to damn others in the name of their God.