Post by Brother. Ross on Sept 29, 2008 13:19:30 GMT -5
Wednesday, September 24 2008 Fayetteville State University (NC)
I arrived on campus at 11:30, and after checking in as a visitor with the campus police department, I began preaching near the student center at 11:53. It was very windy and cloudy, and there was not much foot traffic in the area. As I initiated the preaching with warnings about hell and the judgment to come, few students sat and listened and for about the first 20 minutes or so, there was not much heckling or interaction.
Soon there were about 25-35 students scattered, and making the usual feeble attempts to condemn the preacher: “It’s a sin to judge…you sin everyday like us…you aint no virgin so your going to hell.” I continued to preach hard and loud and let the word of God speak for itself.
Around 1pm the crowd had grew and was for the rest of the afternoon stayed around 30 - 60. As I was standing on a ledge rebuking the many heathens in the congregation, an older man who stated he was a Muslim positioned himself in the middle of the crowd, got every one to be quiet for a moment just to say “Jesus was a Muslim,” then walk off, he was nearly heckled.
As students began to get closer and louder the campus police arrived to make sure things didn’t get out of hand (or so they say). First an officer walked around the crowd and was telling students to go away and not pay any attention to him, which is ironic because nobody paid him any attention. He and another officer then asked me to step down and stated that they wanted the crowd to dwindle down before I start preaching again. After about 2 minutes, the officers quit talking to me, and when I jumped back on the ledge and began preaching students began walking back towards me and gathering again to hear the Gospel. Five minutes later he asked me to step down again and basically informed me that I should preach without talking to students, and without lifting up my voice, and that I also should stop preaching the way I preach and quit for the day for my own safety.
The supervisor came soon and allowed me to preach after realizing that I have a right to and that no riot was taking place. In my opinion the officers at this school do not want to enforce the law if it entails confronting the violent sinners, or saying something that would displease the students who they appear to want to keep happy while in their sin.
As I would answer question I noticed a lot of what I said went in one ear and out the other. I preached holiness, against, fornication, drunkenness, gangster rap music, and covetousness for the majority of the afternoon and for some time had to deal with a loud mouth, brazen face girl who was a Calvinist. She said she sins everyday, can’t stop sinning, because God predestined for her to sin everyday. This was my first meeting at this campus, and I was not suprised at the rowdy behavior of so many of the students on this campus seeing as how the police refuse to let me preach and not confront the rebels.
I stopped preaching at 2:30, and talked for about 15 minutes to a tall basketball player, who agreed with what I preached, but said I should pray at least an hour next time before I preach, without knowing anything about my prayer life. He was a professing Christian, was very kind and seemed to know what the bible teaches. I left the campus around 3pm and attended mid week service at a local church.
I arrived on campus at 11:30, and after checking in as a visitor with the campus police department, I began preaching near the student center at 11:53. It was very windy and cloudy, and there was not much foot traffic in the area. As I initiated the preaching with warnings about hell and the judgment to come, few students sat and listened and for about the first 20 minutes or so, there was not much heckling or interaction.
Soon there were about 25-35 students scattered, and making the usual feeble attempts to condemn the preacher: “It’s a sin to judge…you sin everyday like us…you aint no virgin so your going to hell.” I continued to preach hard and loud and let the word of God speak for itself.
Around 1pm the crowd had grew and was for the rest of the afternoon stayed around 30 - 60. As I was standing on a ledge rebuking the many heathens in the congregation, an older man who stated he was a Muslim positioned himself in the middle of the crowd, got every one to be quiet for a moment just to say “Jesus was a Muslim,” then walk off, he was nearly heckled.
As students began to get closer and louder the campus police arrived to make sure things didn’t get out of hand (or so they say). First an officer walked around the crowd and was telling students to go away and not pay any attention to him, which is ironic because nobody paid him any attention. He and another officer then asked me to step down and stated that they wanted the crowd to dwindle down before I start preaching again. After about 2 minutes, the officers quit talking to me, and when I jumped back on the ledge and began preaching students began walking back towards me and gathering again to hear the Gospel. Five minutes later he asked me to step down again and basically informed me that I should preach without talking to students, and without lifting up my voice, and that I also should stop preaching the way I preach and quit for the day for my own safety.
The supervisor came soon and allowed me to preach after realizing that I have a right to and that no riot was taking place. In my opinion the officers at this school do not want to enforce the law if it entails confronting the violent sinners, or saying something that would displease the students who they appear to want to keep happy while in their sin.
As I would answer question I noticed a lot of what I said went in one ear and out the other. I preached holiness, against, fornication, drunkenness, gangster rap music, and covetousness for the majority of the afternoon and for some time had to deal with a loud mouth, brazen face girl who was a Calvinist. She said she sins everyday, can’t stop sinning, because God predestined for her to sin everyday. This was my first meeting at this campus, and I was not suprised at the rowdy behavior of so many of the students on this campus seeing as how the police refuse to let me preach and not confront the rebels.
I stopped preaching at 2:30, and talked for about 15 minutes to a tall basketball player, who agreed with what I preached, but said I should pray at least an hour next time before I preach, without knowing anything about my prayer life. He was a professing Christian, was very kind and seemed to know what the bible teaches. I left the campus around 3pm and attended mid week service at a local church.