This man is carrying a giant cross around Cornwall. I followed him to find out why

Having followed Lindsay Hamon and his giant twelve-foot wooden cross around Cornwall, Emma Fowle reflects on the powerful lessons on evangelism she’s learned from his unusual act of public witness 

Appearances can be deceiving.

For many of us, if we were to think about street evangelism, we may consider those who do it unkindly. They must be weird, we reason, perhaps in an attempt to shelter ourselves from the possibility that God may ever demand such boldness from us. No one wants Jesus shoved in their face when they’re waiting for a bus or trying to get the kids to school; it probably puts people off Christianity rather than drawing them towards us.