Living Waters Publications

Living Waters Publications is a Christian evangelism ministry headquarted in Bellflower, California. Its founder and head is evangelist Ray Comfort, formerly of New Zealand.

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Christian - Evangelism - Bellflower, California - Evangelist - Ray Comfort

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Their ministry's mission, according to their Web site, is "to educate God?s people in the principals of Biblical evangelism; to encourage the Body of Christ to faithfully fulfill the Great Commission; and to equip every individual believer with the necessary resources to practically proclaim the everlasting gospel. We do this through the teaching and preaching of God's Word and through the production and dissemination of various printed and audio/visual mediums."

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Their online store contains approximately 75-80 gospel tracts, designed as varying forms of illusions or gags to draw attention, such as their "Million Dollar Bill," "Giant $100 Bill," and "Ten Commandments Coins." They encourage open-air preaching, and staff members at their ministry go to the Bellflower courthouse most weekdays to open air preach to those waiting in line to go into the building. Comfort and others, including his son-in-law, go to the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica Friday nights to street preach.

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Open-air preaching - Santa Monica

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Comfort and the ministry teach that modern Christian evangelism has gone astray from the preaching of sin and God's law, the Ten Commandments, as done frequently in the Bible and by Christian preachers such as Charles Spurgeon, John Wesley, and George Whitefield up until the dawn of the 20th century.

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Sin - Ten Commandments - Bible - Charles Spurgeon - John Wesley - George Whitefield - 20th century

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In 2001, actor Kirk Cameron heard Comfort's message "Hell's Best Kept Secret," an teaching on this principle, and contacted their ministry. Eventually, Comfort and Cameron combined to create a new ministry program, The Way of the Master. Its materials includes a TV show (available on DVD), books, tracts, Web site and a soon-forthcoming radio show.

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Kirk Cameron - The Way of the Master

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Other endeavors of their ministry include a "School of Biblical Evangelism" and an international society of like-minded Christians called the "Great News Network," which runs "Evangelism Boot Camps" several times a year.

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They have established satellite offices in New Zealand and Canada, and are currently setting up similar offices in Australia and Europe, to provide citizens there with training events and materials in local currency without the high shipping costs from the United States.

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• LivingWaters.com - their official Web site.