Just another quick update…

Just another quick update…

Maybe I jumped the gun on posting the first update a few days ago but I thought that I ought to share the results of my visit with my Pulmonary Specialist (lung doctor) yesterday. The news I received was not real good. He said to me “You’ve got some pretty bad lung damage.” He also told me unless I loose a large amount of weight that I’ll probably be on oxygen the rest of my life. I’ll be taking more x-rays at the end of this month and we’ll see how my healing is progressing from my bout with pneumonia.

I know that this is not the life that God has intended for me. Like I said last time I know that the Lord has called me to preach the Gospel and to reach the lost. I have no choice but to trust in God for my healing. I also know I have to do my part so I’m going back to working to loose weight and get to where I can be healthier again.

Thank you for your continued prayers! Please keep praying for me and my family and for me to be able to get back out and witness!

Be Blessed!

BIG SCOTT

Ministry Update

Greetings!

I just wanted to get a quick ministry update out. March has not been a good month for me. The first part of the month the weather was not very hospitable for getting out and witnessing and the last part of the month I’ve been sick. Needless to say I’m looking forward to April and the months to come!

To update you on my health, things turned for the worse last about two weeks ago. I started getting sick and I started having g a hard time breathing again. Our team was going to Old Town bar section here in Wichita on St. Patrick’s Day night and I was in bad enough shape by then I couldn’t go with them. I held out through the weekend and on Monday my wife took me to the hospital where I was admitted into ICU with a severe case pneumonia. I was in the hospital all week and was finally released last Friday.

I still have a small amount of pneumonia in my lungs and I’m on oxygen now 24/7 until the pneumonia leaves completely and my lungs heal up. Needless to say it’s hard to hit the streets when you have to drag an oxygen tank around wherever you go and you run out of breath real easy. Right now I can walk around a grocery type store pushing a shopping cart and sucking down oxygen for only about 20 – 30 minutes before I start running out of breath.

I know that right now the enemy is laughing at me thinking he’s taken out one of God’s own ministers of the Gospel but I got news for him. I am going to trust in God to open doors for me to share the Gospel. I will fight through this and find ways to share Jesus with the lost and dying! God didn’t call me to reach the lost and then all of a sudden crawl in a hole and die. That’s not me and it’s not going to happen if I have anything to say about it!

I’ve still got my van that says “Free Money- Just Ask” on it and people are still coming up asking for that free money. Just yesterday I was sitting in a parking lot waiting for my wife and I guy came up and asked for the free money. I gave him a million dollar bill Gospel tract and then I shared the Gospel with him. I know God will open more doors like this as I diligently seek to share the Good News of Jesus Christ!

I’m still going into grocery stores and such passing out million dollar bill Gospel tracts there too. By the way I should add here that I’m about out of tracts. Please pray that the Lord would provide me with more tracts.

Please keep me and my family in prayer as we’re going through a really tough time here. Also, please keep praying that the Lord through His Holy Spirit will continue to heal me and raise me up! Springs here and summer is coming and it’s driving me nuts not being able to really get out and witness! All I’m asking for is for God to heal me so I can win souls for the King!

Thank you for taking your time to read this and thank you for your prayers as I really do need them and I greatly appreciate them!

Be Blessed!!!

Big Scott

Question & Answer About Porn

Question & Answer About Porn

I received the following three questions first back in 2005 and wrote a blog about them.

“What is your view on porn? Is there anything wrong with it (porn)? Can someone be addicted (to porn)?"

I’ve taken that blog and I just rewrote it with updates. I know that there are people out there needing to hear what I’ve written. I hope and pray that what I’ve wrote finds them.
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Praise God these questions came my way! As one who has been down the porn road and now set free, I feel God has given me a unique perspective and insight to address this issue. This may come as a shock to some as you read through my reply but it is a reply that tells how I was set free and can set other captives free!

Porn can be and is VERY addictive. I was hooked on porn from the time I was about 14 up until about seven years ago. I was introduced to porn at an early age by a friend of mine’s big brother. Needless to say being introduced to porn at such an early age really messed with the way I saw women.

Porn has destroyed so very much in my life I wouldn't know where to start. Being Bi-Polar with a very heavy manic side, I came very close several times to having a run in with the law. Why I never got in trouble with the law is beyond me. The only thing that I can think of that saved me from traveling down that terrible road was God. God had a better plan for my life!

I tried being a Christian, a husband, & a good father while hooked on porn. Where did it get me? I was divorced from my wife & separated from my kids. I also lost a lot of friends and had several disastrous relationships with women all because of the way my brain was skewered on porn. That's what porn does. It messes with your mind and destroys your sense of reality.

What saved me from porn? God. Pure, plain, & simple! When I hit the end of my rope so to say and had nothing else to live for about seven years ago I just simply gave up. My wife who divorced me in 1996 and remarried me in December of 1999 believing that somehow I still had some redeeming value in me and that I did indeed need to be the father that God has called me to be took me in to the local mental health crisis center for help.

After years and years of being addicted to porn I was very close to suicide. I didn’t care. I had nothing to loose. I said “What the hell? Here’s what I’ve done. Here’s what I feel. And here’s what I’m taking (abusing).” I laid it all out. The porn addiction, the OTC speed addiction, the self mutilation addiction that was a result of the porn addiction. I threw it all out there just to show how screwed up I had gotten myself. I had the “Here, YOU deal with it” attitude!

Little did I know that what I was doing was the single most freeing thing that I could do. I dumped it all. I held nothing back. I told my psychiatrist, my counselor, my Pastor, & I even told our family doctor some of it. The one person that I expected that would be the most likely to give me the boot or explode all over me was the one that cared the most. That was our Pastor.

The care that our Pastor took to make sure I got treatment, to talk with me, to love on me, to lift me up when I got down was more then I could have ever imagined! The problem is that our Pastor has seen way too many men get caught in the snare, the trap of porn and have their whole lives ruined. Mine was ruined here too. The difference was our Pastor had an opportunity to be Jesus to me, to free me from the trap, the snare that had so entangled me.

I’m Bi-Polar and back then I was having some serious Bi-Polar mood swings. Being Bi-Polar has an absurdly, seriously, dangerous side. When you’re on the high, manic side of Bi-Polar and you have a porn addiction you’ll crave porn just like a crack addict craves crack. When you’re on the down, depression side of Bi-Polar having the porn addiction is just more thing to come in and pound you down. With Bi-Polar & porn there is no middle ground. That’s what makes porn so absurdly, seriously, dangerous.

My advice to anyone with a porn addiction, especially those that are Bi-Polar, tell your psychiatrist, your counselor, your Pastor, a close friend, your spouse if you have one. Tell someone that is willing to help you beat this addiction. Beating this addiction is going to be just like beating an alcohol or drug addiction. Why do I say that? It’s medically proven porn causes dopamine to be released in the brain causing a drug high.

Dopamine is a chemical that your body produces when you’re having sex. God designed sex to be between a husband and a wife. God designed sex so that when a husband and a wife are having sex dopamine is released enhancing the experience drawing the husband and wife closer together and thus giving them a longing deep inside for each other and the want to continue sexual relations. Any sex that is outside of the marriage bonds of a man and a woman is an abomination unto God which is exactly what porn does!

Another problem with porn is that it is somewhat culturally accepted and it is pretty much legal. So were the over the counter speed pills I was hooked on. So are cigarettes. So is alcohol. So on and so forth. They will all kill you. Period! How will porn kill you? For starters if you get deep enough into porn, which is so very easy to do and you won’t know it until it’s too late, is that porn can lead to such severe depression that one may very well commit suicide or at least try. At the very least it will kill your relationship God! It will also kill you emotionally and socially.

The good news is that I found something to replace that high I was getting from porn. This is a high that is better then any high porn or drugs could ever give me. This high has no end. This high is not destructive. This high is in fact very good for you. This high has brought me a ton of healing. What is this high? This high is Jesus!

If you’re playing around with porn, STOP!!! If you can’t stop, you need help. Like I said earlier, get help! This is your life. Don’t loose it over porn!

I hope and pray that hits home with some!

Be Blessed!

BIG SCOTT

Here's a collection of videos that we shot this summer while doing street ministry.

Where Did Summer Go?

Greetings!

Wow! Where did the summer go? What a great summer I had as far as witnessing went. I had the pleasure of praying with fourteen people while I was doing street ministry during the summer months. It is definitely fun witnessing when the Holy Spirit is being poured out!

It’s now time to start transitioning to cold weather witnessing. Now I’ll be going out more during the day than in the evenings. This week I’ve been focusing on one of the local laundromats. One thing that everyone at laundromats have in common is that everyone has time to wait while the clothes are either washing or drying. This makes for an awesome evangelistic opportunity!

We’ve been unfortunate in that our clothes dryer has went out on us. We’ve got a maintenance repair plan on our appliances here in our home but it looks like it will be another week or two before they can get it fixed. In the mean time we’ve been having to go to a local laundromat every day to dry clothes. When we go to the laundromats as soon as I get our clothes going I start passing out million dollar bill Gospel tracts and Gospels of John. I usually tuck a million dollar bill inside a Gospel of John and then hand them as one. I’m happy to report that in the past week or so I’ve went through a bunch of Gospels of John and even more million dollar bills!

I’m looking forward to getting my video camcorder back out of the shop. I plan on going down to the county courthouse here in Wichita around lunch time and setting up and interviewing people like I did this summer at the Keeper of the Plains. I’ve found as long as the temperature is close to fifty degrees and the wind isn’t blowing people will stop and talk with you. I’m looking forward to reporting back to you with some great news!

Until then…

Be Blessed!!!

Scott Kliewer

September Blog/Update/Newsletter

Greetings!

Good News! Since the last time I wrote I’m pleased to announce that I’ve had four more people pray with me on the streets for salvation! Praise God! In fact this past weekend I had something happen that I never had happen before. I had a father and a son both pray with me at the same time for salvation! That was really pretty neat and had me all excited!

I have to confess that I’m not a real strong prayer warrior. I don’t know why but I consider prayer my weakness in my Christian life. This past week was no different for me in my prayer life. I realized while I was heading out to witness that I wasn’t “prayed up”. So while driving across town I was praying “Lord, I’m sorry I haven’t been praying like I should but would you please bring me divine appointments?”

I’ve come to realize that God wants nothing more then for someone to come to the saving grace of his son Jesus Christ. Angels rejoice in Heaven when someone gets saved! Therefore I also know now that the Lord is quick to answer prayer when you’re praying fo the lost to come in especially when you’re praying for you to be the one bringing in the harvest so to speak.

It was kind of interesting how the father and the son came to pray with me for salvation. I went to Old Town first Saturday evening but I was getting no where there so I headed over to the Keeper of the Plains for the fire pits lighting. Sure enough there was a good crowd there. The first two people I witnessed with were both very saved Christians. As I was finishing with the second person I prayed under my breath real quick “Lord I need a divine appointment!”

The next thing I did was to turn around and as I was turning around another gentleman was turning around right in front of me. I looked at him and said cheerfully “Hi!” which he returned right back. I told him I was working on a project where I interview people and asked him if I could interview him and he agreed. I started taking him through the Way of the Master method and it didn’t take very long for the Dad to confess he was headed to hell and that really bother him.

At this point I shared with him and his son what it takes to go to Heaven, then both of them agreed to pray with me to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior! We prayed together and when we got done things were winding down at the Keeper of the Plains so we talked more and I made sure he understood what just happened and he did. As a side note there’s not a much better feeling here on earth then leading someone to Christ! Give it a try, you might just like it too!!!

August Newsletter/Update

I guess I’ll start this blog out the same way I started out my blog/newsletter from last month. Wow! What an exciting month that July has been! I was able to pass out a couple hundred more tracts and many more heard the Good News of Jesus Christ with a total of nine salvations for Jesus Christ!

I’ve never had the pleasure of leading nine people to Jesus in one year let alone one month but the Holy Spirit was most definitely moving in July! Even more interesting all of the salvations took place at the Keeper of the Plains here in Wichita. I started the month of by leading three young people to the Lord all at one time and one by one they kept coming in!

It was kind of interesting what I did. I did what I saw another street evangelist in Atlanta do. I went and got me a camera, tripod, microphone, and someone to run the camera for me. We set up down at the Keeper of the Plains in the evening just before sunset which is when it gets busy there and I just invited people to come on camera so I could interview them.

You’d be amazed at how easy it is sometimes to get people to come on camera and talk to you! The first question that I ask is “When someone’s life on earth is over, when someone dies, do you believe there is any kind of afterlife or is that it?” Here in Wichita I find somewhere around a fourth of the people have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. The other three quarters run the gamut from a mix of eastern religion to evolutionists not sure what they believe and everything in between!

What I try to do is to use the Way of the Master method of witnessing. Once I find out that they’re not saved I try to take them through the Ten Commandments to show them their sins and to show them why they need Jesus. The Way of the Master method works really great in that you are not judging them rather they see in their own hearts why they need a savior!

I will add that the Lord in the middle of this month gave me a goal to try to reach. Since I’ve been saved in 1988 it’s been my goal to try to lead one person a year to the Lord. Last month in the middle of July the Lord spoke to my heart and gave me the challenge of leading one person a WEEK to the Lord! To do this I’m going to need help and support from my family & friends. Please pray that the Lord will bless me with what I need to do this. Also please pray for my boldness to reach out so I can do what the Lord has called me to do! This is going to be a huge challenge for me but with the Lord’s help and the leading of the Holy Spirit I can do it!

Thank you for your time, prayers, & support!

Be Blessed!!!

Scott Kliewer