page_title: Michael Woroniecki
section_title: Christian view
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Woroniecki / Christian view
caption_attribution_description: English: Street Preacher holds sign that reads "Discover forgiveness for all your sin and eternal life in the Living Jesus" in Times Square, New York.
context_page_description: Michael Peter Woroniecki is an independent, non-denominational Christian missionary. Woroniecki is well known for his ministry on college campuses and at various public events across the US over the span of the last 30 years.
context_section_description: Woroniecki preaches that one must "get alone, study the New Testament and seek the Living Jesus to be Born Again". He says that today's "churches" are not the true Church as seen in the Scriptures and cannot save anyone.
  Woroniecki has used large banner signs and often a wooden cross to convey his message for the past 35 years. In his ministry Woroniecki addresses the Biblical themes of hypocrisy in the institutional system, grace, salvation, forgiveness, hell, judgment, deception and the consequences of sin. Because of this, Woroniecki has taken his share of verbal and physical opposition. He claims that these are the "last days" and that Jesus will soon return to judge the world. Woroniecki cites various Scripture verses in his pamphlets to substantiate his message that only by faith can a man be saved from hell and reconciled to God, a doctrine accepted by most mainstream Christians and defined by Martin Luther as sola fide.
  The Bible figures strongly in Woroniecki's beliefs and is a focal point of his preaching.  Despite not holding a conventional position in an established religion, Woroniecki's knowledge of Scripture and theology is extensive. His years of personal and scholastic study at three seminaries are reflected in his literature. Woroniecki believes in Biblical inerrancy and considers the Scriptures authoritative on all matters of life.
  Woroniecki's message is met on the streets with a variety of responses.
caption: Woroniecki in Times Square. 2008.
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