Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
In this exciting episode, Jenna and Alyssa sit down with Jeremy Chong, a member of the Jim Elliot Fellowship when he studied at Wheaton College.
Back in 2019, Jeremy Chong along with the Jim Elliot Fellowship sued the City of Chicago for hampering their freedom of speech as they were preaching the gospel in Millennium Park:
“For months, students like Jeremy and Matthew Swart would pass out gospel tracts at Millennium Park. They were just simple three-fold pamphlets telling people about faith in Jesus Christ. “[We were] passing those out to anyone who would take [them] and having conversations when we were approached.” Simple enough, right? Wrong. The park’s security team saw what was happening and stopped them — not once, but again and again. By the fifth time, the students had enough.”
Through the legal aid of Mauck & Baker, a religious freedom law firm in the city, U.S. District Judge John Blakey ruled in favor of the Jim Elliot Fellowship’s right to freedom of speech in the public square:
“The students, he agreed, had a First Amendment right to evangelize and hand out Christian material…”
In addition to this, Jeremy Chong shares his passion for evangelism and how Christians can have boldness in sharing the truth of the Gospel.
This is an amazing that you do not want to miss.
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