Editing Open-air preaching (section)

==Evangelical Revivals==
{{See also|Revival meeting|Great Awakening}}
[[File:Camp meeting of the Methodists in N. America J. Milbert del M. Dubourg sculp (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|[[Methodist]] preachers were known for promulgating the doctrines of the [[Born again#Methodism|new birth]] and [[entire sanctification]] to the public at events such as [[tent revival]]s and [[camp meeting]]s, which they believe is the reason that God raised them up into existence.<ref name="Gibson">{{cite web|url=https://ucmpage.org/sgca/wesley01.htm|title=Wesleyan Heritage Series: Entire Sanctification|last=Gibson|first=James|publisher=South Georgia Confessing Association|language=en|access-date=30 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529053529/http://ucmpage.org/sgca/wesley01.htm|archive-date=29 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>]]
Early [[Methodist]] preachers [[John Wesley]] and [[George Whitefield]] preached in the open air, which allowed them to attract crowds larger than most buildings could accommodate.<ref>[http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060805/news/news4.html  The first Great Awakening] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125224635/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060805/news/news4.html |date=2010-01-25 }}, Tony Cauchi, [[Gleaner Company|Jamaica Gleaner]]</ref> On one occasion when Wesley was forbidden to preach inside the church in his hometown, [[Epworth, Lincolnshire|Epworth]], he used his father's tombstone in the churchyard as a [[pulpit]].<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0DE2DA1739E433A25756C2A9619C946297D6CF JOHN WESLEY.; G. Holden Pike's History of the Great Methodist and His Associates], [[New York Times]]</ref>

Open-air preachers throughout history have often noted that preaching to large crowds often causes preachers to be abused in certain ways, even having objects thrown at them such as rotting vegetables or unsanitary liquids of many varieties.<ref>Spurgeon, Pg. 250</ref> It was said that one of the regular practices of American evangelist [[Dwight L. Moody]] in the late 1860s "was to exhort the passersby in the evenings from the steps of the court house. Often these impromptu gatherings drew as many hecklers as supporters."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.soulwinning.info/sp/lessons/02.htm |title=A History Of Street Preaching |publisher=Soulwinning.info |accessdate=2013-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822212036/http://www.soulwinning.info/sp/lessons/02.htm |archive-date=2012-08-22 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the late 19th century and early-to-mid 20th century many famous open-air preachers in the United States began to preach, such as [[Billy Graham]] and [[Billy Sunday]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/sunday.html|title=Billy Sunday Salty evangelist|website= ChristianityToday.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070215170331/http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/sunday.html |archive-date=2007-02-15 }}</ref> Graham in particular used a combination of open-air preaching and the recent advent of [[televangelism]] to broadcast his sermons, which often took place in large venues such as stadiums, to large portions of the world and millions of Americans.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.historyguy.com/biofiles/graham_billy.html |title=Lee, R. "The History Guy: The Reverend Billy Graham" |access-date=2007-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070113205432/http://www.historyguy.com/biofiles/graham_billy.html |archive-date=2007-01-13 |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:GloryLife_Schlossplatz_GeorgKarl_ErlebeGott.jpg|thumb|Street preaching 2022 in Germany]]
[[Charles Spurgeon]], the famous open-air Baptist preacher of England, believed that open-air preaching was instrumental in getting people to hear the gospel who might otherwise never hear it,<ref name="Spurgeon"/><ref>Spurgeon, p. 255</ref> and today, open-air preachers such as [[Ray Comfort]] believe that it reaches many more people at once than other approaches to evangelism do.<ref>"The Evidence Bible", [[Ray Comfort]], Bridge-Logos Publishers, 2003, p. 1183</ref>