In recent years, I’ve heard a number of people suggest that public evangelistic meetings – of the “old fashioned” prophetic sort – are no longer a means of reaching the modern world.  I struggle to believe it, at least on one important count: in spite of what my children might suggest, I am not so old that I could not be considered part of the “modern world.”  I am tech-savvy, culturally aware, widely read, and well-educated – and it was public evangelistic meetings that pulled me into the Adventist church