Post by messengermicah on Apr 18, 2009 12:00:25 GMT -5
Thursday April 2, 2009-Auburn University-Auburn, Alabama: It rained all day today so I did not go to campus. That evening I ran into a student with his mother who had heard me preach at Auburn U. before, recognized me and stopped me. I sat down at talked with him for 30-40 minutes. He asked many very good and sincere questions and I answered him with thorough scriptural answers. He seemed to understand everything I told him and be hungry for more.
Friday April 3, 2009-Auburn University-Auburn, Alabama: Very good weather for preaching today. I began preaching around 11:55 AM. It took about 10-15 minutes before anyone stopped to listen.
One young man claimed to be a Christian, living free from sin and supported the preaching. In talking to him several others stopped and began asking questions.
The crowd gradually grew to around 50-60. One young man showed up with a sign opposing religious extremists and claimed to be an atheist. To his credit he was fairly reasonable, listened well, allowed me to answer his questions, and even acknowledged some points I made.
One lesbian threw her soda all over my pants and shoes. There were several homosexuals in the crowd and although the homosexual issue was addressed, thankfully not much of the preaching time was swallowed up only dealing with the homosexuals.
I continued preaching and answering questions until around 2:30 PM and then turned the crowd of 40-60 over to Sister Elizabeth as I went to take a restroom break.
As I left the crowd a young man came to talk to me. He wanted to shake my hand, tell me how much he appreciated what we were doing and how he desired to do the same some day. I asked him if he wanted to do some preaching that day but he declined and said he needed to go to class.
The two young men from the local church from the previous week were on hand handing out tracts and witnessing. The one young man had actually done some preaching and answered questions from the crowd when I was here in 2007.
His cousin came over to introduce himself and give me his testimony. I also asked him if we wanted to do some preaching this day but he declined.
When I returned Sister Elizabeth was doing an excellent job of maintaining and controlling the crowd and answering questions.
She answered questions until around 2:45 PM and then I took over again. I continued preaching and answering questions until 3:10 PM. Since the crowd was small and civil I did not think the police officer would enforce the time limit on the permit. Around 3:10 PM Sister Elizabeth came over and told me the police officer told us our permit had expired.
As we walked to our vehicle two students who claimed to be Christians walked with us and asked us many questions concerning doctrine and method of preaching. They both did not understand our doctrine of living sin free and method of open air preaching but did not seem critical just questioning.
We continued talking to them and answering their questions for another 30-40 minutes before leaving. Both seemed open to the truth and honest hearted.