Post by messengermicah on Mar 7, 2009 17:02:37 GMT -5
SLOW DAY AT CENTRAL FLORIDA
Monday February 23, 2009-University of Central Florida-Orlando, Florida: Sister Elizabeth and I drove out to the University of Central Florida and I began preaching in the free speech area around 12:25 PM. I preached for some time and no one stopped.
I continued preaching and a few students came to talk to me and ask me questions. I talked to them and answered their questions for some time and after a while they left. By now it was around 1:30 PM.
I took a short break and then tried preaching again. Still no one stopped. Around 2:00 PM I went into the library and almost decided to call it a day. I decided to give it another try. I went to the vehicle and got the sandwich board sign and continued preaching around 2:30 PM.
FINALLY!
As soon as I started preaching a few students stopped and started asking questions, heckling, and making comments. Soon a small crowd of 20-35 built up. I preached to this crowd for the next few hours. Around 4:30 PM the crowd dwindled down to around 10-15. By now they were closed in around me and I was no longer preaching but just answering questions and talking to them. It was a good time of questions and answers. I concluded the meeting around 5:15 PM.
Tuesday February 24, 2009-University of South Florida-Tampa, Florida: The previous Saturday (February 21, 2009) I had a free oil change in the Tampa area. Instead of traveling after getting the oil change in the afternoon I decided just to stay and spend the night in the Tampa area and go to our church on Sunday.
DEBATING A BAPTIST PASTOR/CAMPUS LEADER
On Saturday, I remembered the last time I preached at the University of South Florida there was a pastor and campus ministry leader from a Baptist organization who had opposed my preaching in the past had challenged me to a formal debate on campus. I gave this pastor a call on Saturday and we set up the debate for Thursday evening (February 26, 2009) at 7:00 PM. That is the night they normally have their campus ministry meeting.
The pastor made up flyers with both of our pictures on them and was going to be handing them out on campus while I was preaching during the week.
Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around 11:40 AM and I began preaching around 11:50 AM wearing my sandwich board sign. Throughout the afternoon I preached to crowds ranging from 30-175.
At one point in the day when the crowd size was smaller a student who had threatened me with violence and gotten in my face in previous visits. He had also threatened a black brother and preacher friend screamed profanity at him and called him racial slurs and to go climb the tree located above the free speech zone. This angry student made comments that I was overweight.
“FAT”, OLD PREACHER MORE FIT THAN STUDENT
I admit, I could be thinner but at this point I don’t think I am overweight. I challenged him to a contest of pushups. He barely did about 34 and I dropped down and breezed through 40 and then stopped. I heard no more comments about my weight after this and the crowd was much more attentive and respectful.
Towards the end of the day as the crowd size was getting smaller several black students stopped to listen. They all claimed to be Christians. A male student with the group sounded very effeminate.
“CHRISTIAN” GIRL BOASTS ABOUT MEN LUSTING AFTER HER
One of the female students with the group with skin tight pants jumped in my face and began following me around and trying to talk over me as I preached while claiming to be a Christian “sinner”. I told her she was not a Christian, because of her immodest clothing which revealed lust in her heart. No Christian would want to tempt someone to sin and immodest clothing tempts people to sin.
She began to boast to the crowd about how she loves her tight pants and men looking at her. I rebuked her sharply (Titus 1:13) and continued preaching. The effeminate male jumped on top of a table and began singing (lisping) “Behold the Lamb of God”.
PRAYERS GOD IGNORES
Around 3:00 PM, this group along with some of the other students gathered in a prayer circle and began singing and praying. By this time a few students came in close and began asking me questions. I continued to talk to them and answer their questions for another 30 minutes while the hypocrites prayed prayers God ignored (Proverbs 15:8, 28:9, Psalm 66:18, John 9:31, 1 Peter 3:12, 1 John 3:22).
As we were leaving, a black male student not with the group came up to me and said I had given him something to think abut. He was raised a Seventh Day Adventist and has some Bible knowledge, asks good questions, listens well and is polite.
CHANGE OF HEART?
On the way out the tight pants wearing girl tried to hand me the phone with her mother on the other line only now she was well behaved and addressing me as “Sir”. I noticed she behaves differently with her mother listening. I did not speak to her mother but Sister Elizabeth did.
Sister Elizabeth and I talked to this girl for another 20 minutes or so before we left. She actually seemed like a pretty nice girl and was pretty open to everything we told her. She agreed to read the scriptures we gave her from Bible passages on modesty and a Bible tract. Praise the Lord!
The pastor I was scheduled to debate had been around all that day handing out flyers and inviting people to the debate.
Wednesday February 25, 2009-University of South Florida-Tampa, Florida: Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around noon and I began preaching wearing the sandwich board sign around 12:15 PM. The pastor was on hand again handing out flyers and inviting people to Thursday night’s debate.
This pastor is somewhat of a John MacArthurite, seminary graduate, and studies Greek.
TOLERANT LIBERAL THINKS MUSLIMS CAN’T THINK FOR THEMSELVES
I preached to crowds of 20-125 throughout the afternoon. At one point about 15 muslim students came around and asked questions. They were pretty civil but it is hard to defend something as ridiculous as islam. They decided to leave fairly quickly when their false religion and its contradictions began to be exposed and a bossy female staff or student said something to them. Of course this liberal, “tolerant”, “accepting” female does not think these muslim students are capable of thinking for themselves.
I stopped preaching around 3:00 PM and a group of about 10-15 students was hanging around asking questions and trying to justify homosexuality and other things God opposes. The pastor came around to listen and then started trying to tell me how to answer.
I decided to let him deal with some of the issues and answer some questions from the students. He rarely directly addresses, nor confronts and exposes what is in the hearts of these students.
OUT OF TOUCH PASTOR SHOCKED BY WICKEDNESS OF STUDENTS
He did ok from what I heard but he was shocked when he asked the students if they thought the world was getting better or worse. The students very frankly and with one accord answered back “It is getting better” as if everyone knows that. He gave me a look of shock. The reason this shocked him is because he is out of touch with what is in the student’s hearts. He is out of touch with what is in their hearts is because he does not address these issues head on in a way that exposes what is in the hearts of the students.
We left the campus around 3:45 PM.