Post by messengermicah on Nov 13, 2009 17:24:57 GMT -5
Tuesday November 3, 2009-University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina: It was a clear sunny day in the high 60’s. Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around 11:40 AM and I began preaching in front of the Belk Tower around 11:55 AM.
I slowly gathered a few listeners and the crowd continued to grow to over 100. The crowd was attentive at times and other times were rowdy. Several hecklers in the crowd would periodically come in my face and go on a rant.
PEACEFUL ISLAM
The crowd continued to grow to over 150. There were several muslim students in the crowd. One muslim male came up in my face while I was preaching. He followed me around, making threats and bumping me. I knew he was probably ready to deck me so I did not try to provoke him but did not back down either. I continued moving, preaching, and letting him and the crowd know the ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN WAS THROUGH THE ONLY TRUE GOD THE LORD JESUS CHRIST and not islam.
He began making some chant sounding like a jhad war cry and all the other muslim students joined in with him. This of course was somewhat unsettling as I did not know what the muslim students were getting ready to do next but I continued preaching. It reminded me of the anti-American, anti-Israel rallies conducted in countries under Islamic law or rallies in European countries where a good number of the population is muslim.
ARE CIGARETTES CLEAN?
Soon some of the students moved the angry muslim student away from me. Later this same student was smoking cigarettes. Most muslim students I have met on university campuses smoke like chimneys. I do not understand why it is ok for them to smoke but not ok to eat pork. Is smoking clean?
A female student spit on me and then walked off. I do not think this student was a muslim. I turned around and noticed a police officer. The police officer said he did not see anything but did let the crowd know they were not allowed to spit on me. This is important because it seems many students have the idea since we are Christian fundamentalists and most of them disagree with us that we do not have the same basic rights as everyone else.
LET’S MOW THE GRASS
The crowd eventually grew to around 200. It seemed the school officials were trying to disrupt the preaching. A huge crane showed up with several workers to do something on the Belk Tower. Later they were riding around the preaching area mowing the grass. Several times I had full coffee cups thrown at me.
By around 2:15-2:30 PM the crowd size had dwindled down to around 30-40. It was difficult to preach above the noise from the lawn mower. I continued preaching and answering questions until 3:00 PM.
Wednesday November 4, 2009-University of North Carolina at Charlotte-Charlotte, North Carolina: The weather was again clear and sunny and in the mid 60’s. Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around 11:30 AM and I began preaching in front of the Belk Tower around 11:50 AM.
All around the Belk Tower were silhouettes of homosexual couples with captions such as “Why can’t we have a family?” and “We want health insurance benefits also.”
A crowd began to gather much quicker today. This usually happens as the word gets out around campus about the preaching and the momentum builds. Soon the crowd grew to over 100 and continued growing. I had several hypocrites come up and challenge me on certain verses in the Bible but when I began to answer them they were not even listening.
WHO CARES IF IT IS IN THE BIBLE?
Several hecklers came up in my face and followed me around for some time as I continued preaching. One female student who claimed to be a Christian made a totally unbiblical statement and when I showed her a Bible verse that totally refuted what she had said she refused to look at it and then stormed off mad.
GOOD JOB BY POLICE
Several aggressive black lesbians kept walking up in my face and following me around. The crowd continued to grow to around 225-250 and began crowding in on me. Thankfully, several police officers showed up and made the crowd give me some space. One student standing next to me was holding a brick he had brought out to hit me with. I did not even notice him but the police officers confronted him and removed him. The crowd had become quite rowdy but now had to behave somewhat due to the police presence of 3-6 officers.
I preached on effectively for some time to the large rowdy crowd. Gradually the crowd decreased to around 30-40 and I thought things were winding down. Most of the hecklers were gone and it seemed we were having an excellent time of answering questions and discussion.
DID ANYONE KNOW JOEL OSTEEN HAD A BLACK TWIN?
This was all too much for a feminine sounding black male student who wanted everyone to know he was a Christian and knew about the Bible. Not only was he a Christian but also he wanted everyone to know he was also a preacher. He began to interrupt and tried to steal the attention of the crowd. I told him to go to the other side and get his own crowd. He refused. His mannerisms reminded me of a want to-be televangelist. I refuted every objection he made to my preaching with the Word of God. Of course, the crowd cheered for him (Luke 6:26, Romans 16:18, 2 Timothy 4:3-4) but when he tried to preach they ignored him.
He eventually said he was going to pray a prayer to rebuke me and called the crowd to join him. So the wanna-be preacher along with the atheists, drunkards, fornicators, homosexuals, etc. all joined to pray against the preacher who was preaching repentance, faith, salvation, holiness, and hell-fire.
I told him and the crowd since I was still there preaching the same message after they prayed and rebuked me either I was of God or he was full of the devil or both.
As I continued to preach the crowd eventually grew back to around 60-70 and I continued preaching and answering questions until 3:00 PM.
I sat down and was immediately surrounded by about 30-40 students asking all kinds of questions. I sat and answered questions until around 3:20 PM.
I had promised a student an interview for a school project dealing with homosexual marriage.
My wife also informed me two students from the campus newspaper gave her their contact information to set up an interview for the university newspaper.
Thursday November 5, 2009-University of North Carolina at Charlotte-Charlotte, North Carolina: Another beautiful clear sunny day in the mid 60’s. We arrived on campus around 11:20 AM.
There was a Christian student group on the other side of the Belk Tower giving away free coats to those who needed them. Most of the coats were used coats that had been donated or unclaimed. Two of the coats were new.
PRAYER ANSWERING GOD!
On the way to the campus my wife told me she was praying about how our anniversary had just past and how I had needed a new jacket for the cold weather coming up and had been wanting to get me one. When she approached the Belk Tower she asked the group what they were doing and they told her. They pulled out two jackets and gave them to her. Both of them were new and nice. One happened to fit me perfectly and the other fit her perfectly!
I was totally oblivious to any of this as I approached the Belk Tower and greeted the group handing out the jackets. As a courteous I let them know since they were on one side first I was going to preach on the other side.
THE RETURN OF JOEL OSTEEN’S TWIN BROTHER
I began preaching around 11:50 AM and soon had a small group. The crowd continued growing to about 100-125. I noticed the feminine sounding black wanna-be televangelist “preacher” from the day before. I knew he could not stand the thought of standing there and not letting everyone know he was a preacher and knew something about the Bible and expected him to try and steal the crowd.
Soon he jumped between the crowd and me and began his “preaching”. To spite me the crowd acted as if they were ignoring me and paying close attention to everything he said. I challenged him to get his own crowd and told everyone who wanted to hear him to move to another spot and listen to him. He would not move so I continued to preach over him some, heckle him some, and ask him questions about what he was preaching. Of course he always refused to answer.
Thankfully after some time he went to the other side of the Belk Tower and all but about 30-40 students went with him. I knew they would be back soon. I continued to preach and answer some good questions now that the distraction was out of the way.
THE ABSOLUTE FINAL WORD ON EVERYTHING TO KNOW ABOUT EVANGELISM
A female student came running up to me and whispering to me in a condescending way “Hey I know a better way to do this…Go to wayofthemaster.com”
Why is it that when people learn something new they think they are the only ones who have any knowledge on the subject? How come every time someone finds out about wayofthemaster.com they think that is the final word on everything concerning evangelism?
I told the student I was familiar with Ray Comfort and preaching the law and I do preach the law (which anyone who listens to me preach on campus would quickly realize if they would stop and listen for a few minutes). I quickly asked her if she was living free from sin, which she freely admitted she was not. I told her she was not saved and must repent.
After a few minutes most of the former crowd began returning and asking more questions. Soon the crowd was bigger than it was before Joel Osteen’s black twin brother ran off with most of the previous crowd.
Of course Joel’s twin was right back also green with envy and waiting to interrupt but by now it was too late. They already heard him and had gotten their “kicks” by listening to him to spite me but had quickly become bored and came right back.
He tried to interrupt again and I kept preaching over him and answering the questions many were asking and wanting an answer for. One student suggested we each take a turn preaching. Joel’s twin, the crowd and I all agreed.
By this time the crowd was over 200. I preached for five minutes and then gave Joel’s twin brother a turn. I then took another five-minute turn and refuted everything he preached with scriptures.
When it was his turn the crowd then asked if they could ask questions before Joel’s brother had another turn. Every question the crowd had was directed to me and I began to answer the questions with scripture and continued preaching.
MEGACHURCH PREACHING BORES STUDENTS
The crowd continued growing to 250-275. To be fair I offered my opponent another turn. He began to preach the same thing he said the last time he had a session. I began to act as if I were yawning, and about to fall asleep. The crowd would not admit it but they were bored too as they were firing questions at me while Joel’s twin brother was preaching.
For the remainder of the day I preached and answered questions from the crowd of around 300 while Joel’s brother would try to interrupt. The crowd was so large and although not rowdy for a crowd that size (300 people do not have to make a lot of noise individually to be loud as a whole) Joel’s twin did not have the voice volume to be heard and was all but ignored for the remainder of the day.
Around 2:10 PM I was very tired from trying to preach over Joel’s twin and the very large crowd. I exited the large crowd and took a seat on the Belk Tower hoping to weed out the hecklers, hypocrites, and perverts and take the time to answer with more clarity the questions some of the more sincere students had.
A group of 15-20 gathered around and we had a great time of discussion for some time. Several in the crowd really seemed to agree with me, be supportive of the preaching, and appreciative of our presence there.
Later I had a long discussion with an atheist. This seemed to draw more students around me. Soon 30-40 students surrounded me. I continued this discussion until 3:20 PM.
I had promised a student from the campus newspaper an interview at 3:15 PM. I met him and followed him to an area where we could sit down. The student did a long, thorough interview and seemed to want to be fair and unbiased.
We concluded the interview around 4:00 PM.
ANOTHER ANSWER TO PRAYER
As we were preparing to head to where our vehicle was parked there were two computers accessible to the public. We stopped to check a few things on the computer.
As I was praying in the morning a muslim girl who I remember from last year kept coming before me. She had been sitting in the meetings each day for hours listening. The first day she asked several questions. I believed the Lord showed me this muslim girl was being dealt with by the Lord, was sincere, and was really seeking to know the truth about God. As I prayed it seemed I saw myself telling her this while I was preaching and she was sitting in the crowd.
WORD OF KNOWLEDGE?
I did remember her being in the crowd but the day was so hectic with the large crowds, all the interruptions and the constant questions I had totally forgot about what happened in prayer that morning.
While I was standing using the computer I heard a student thank me for coming and I turned around and it was the muslim girl who kept coming before me in prayer! Sister Elizabeth and I talked to her for some time and as I was talking to her I remembered what I believed the Lord had shown me in prayer. I told her what had happened and told her what I believed the Lord had showed me in prayer. It seemed to really touch her as she said that made her want to cry.
We agreed to stay in contact with her. Please pray for her.