Street evangelism often conjures up negative images: shouty people with microphones, sandwich boards declaring “the end is nigh”.
Also, as with one lone fellow in the East Riding of Yorkshire city of Hull, on a sunny Saturday in March, more than a little eccentricity. His proffered leaflet in the city centre informed me: “All of us sin and deserve to be punished” with some added information about microchips, the “mark of the Beast” and its associations with the World Economic Forum.
Such street evangelists are known (and often infamous) for this interest in the “End Times”, the prophesied end of the world; indeed some seem to almost look forward to it, and their obsession and warnings about sin may just be dismissed as cranky by many Christians.
