I spent the day today with Brian Hargett and the students of Chi Alpha in the brickyard on the campus of North Carolina State University. We were talking to students as another crazy preaching group yelled at anyone willing to listen that all “homos are going to hell.” We spent the time encouraging people not to give them the time or the video footage of a large crowd. The NCSU police did a great job keeping everything peaceful, but it was a verbal train wreck that will soon be on youtube as students were video taping with their cell phones.
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”
I COR. 13:1
There are two extremes to confronting sin. Yelling at it with anger & Ignoring it in fear. They are as equally as harmful to the Gospel as one portrays God as a wrathful, hateful step-father, and the other as an absentee, uncaring Creator. The Gospel is neither a one way conversation nor an internal-only thought. The Gospel is to be a part of our everyday lives as we interact with people in the way Jesus would interact with them.
God, in His sovereignty, allows us to choose sin/death or grace/life. When others choose to sin, my words and actions are to be a reminder that the grace and life of salvation are still near.
Romans 2:4 “Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance”
Here is a youtube of this group at another university. I will update it when a clip of the NCSU brickyard comes out.
I am deeply saddened by this video. Even if all of the words she is saying are true, the presentation is abhorrent. When I was in college (won’t say when), there came a preacher man to the campus to yell and shake his Bible and fist at the students. His show lasted for several days and I doubt he succeeded in leading one soul to salvation. However, I cannot condem his coming completely, for though he argued and shouted at the circle of students closest to him, campus christians came to stand on the outskirts and talked to their fellow students about what was going on and about the true life found in Christ. And many were saved as a result. My best friend was one of them.
I’m not saying we should welcome more of these people onto our campuses. They certainly misrepresent. But I can only hope and pray that I would be prepared and able to step in and be a light to those who need one when these situations occur.