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Counselors continue to follow up with people who made decisions for Christ at a crusade in Southern California. Last weekend’s outreach, led by Pastor Greg Laurie’s Harvest Crusade, attracted 50,000 people to Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif. Around 3,500 of them accepted Christ in person, while another 1,500 did so online.
“It was absolutely packed out — 50,000 people filled Angel Stadium,” Laurie said of the event. “In fact, the fire marshals locked the doors, finally, because no one else could fit in. But what I love is that people stayed outside of the gates and joined us in worship. There was such an energy and such an excitement in that space as thousands of us worshipped together as if with one voice.”
When Laurie’s sermon concluded and the invitation was given and thousands walked to the field to talk to a counselor. “We’re just giving God the glory for what he did,” he said.
Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, said he has a few theories for why this year’s crusade was so “powerful and effective.”
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“I think maybe it’s a combination of events going on,” he said. “I think that what’s happening in our nation, so much instability; we see what’s going on in the political world, an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. And now President Biden has just announced that he’s dropping out of the race,:
There also is instability throughout the world, he said.
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“And then there’s just that general hunger for God,” Laurie said. “People love to write California off. I’ve jokingly said that the No. 1 export of California is Californians moving out, but a lot of new people are coming in. What’s so exciting is when we do these events, people of every background attend and come to Christ — old people, young people, white people, black people, Hispanic people, Asian people. “It just seems like it’s a cross-section of the world attending these crusades. We just want to thank God and give him the glory.”
–Dwight Widaman | Metro Voice
