Hi, my name is Steven Anderson. I'm the pastor of Faith Forward Baptist Church in Tempe,
Arizona. So I was already banned from five different countries, but this week I was banned
from the Netherlands. And in addition to the Netherlands, the Dutch government also got
me banned from almost all of Europe. They banned me just in one shot from 26 different
countries that make up what's known as the Schengen area. So just in one single day,
I was banned from 26 countries. So now I'm up to 31 countries that have banned me. And
I'm planning on going to Ireland to preach in a few weeks, and I'm not sure yet whether Ireland's
going to ban me. I think there's a pretty good chance that they will, but thankfully Ireland
is not one of those countries that they banned me from. They're not part of that Schengen area. So
it'll be interesting to see whether I make it into Ireland. The reason given for me being banned is
that I'm a hate preacher, that I'm preaching hate. That's the thing that comes up over and over
again. That's the buzzword. And they say that I'm a danger to the LGBT community, which really it's
just words that I'm preaching. It's just ideas. And these are not new ideas. These are not things
that I've come up with. They're just biblical truths that people have been preaching literally
for thousands of years. But our society has gotten so weird and these countries have gotten so
godless that just normal Bible preaching to them sounds extreme or crazy. I don't consider myself
an extremist whatsoever. I am just a normal guy getting up and preaching the Bible. And it's sad
that I'm one of the only preachers that is preaching this stuff. So then when people hear
it, they're shocked by it. And then I end up literally getting banned from an entire continent.
And I believe that the reason why I'm being banned and censored is that the truth is powerful. And
wicked people are afraid of the truth because it just takes one beam of light to cut through the
darkness that has been created in these areas. The truth is so powerful. It can just in one fell
swoop overturn decades of brainwashing. Someone could be brainwashed. Like think about Moses
brought up in all the learning of the Egyptians. But boom, God's word could cut through that. And
by faith, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. And when the
word of God is preached, that's the kind of transformation that can happen. And so the wicked
want God's word to be silenced. They've always been about burning Bibles, making Christianity
illegal, making soul winning illegal, and just trying to stop the truth from being heard. Because
if the truth is heard, it will bear fruit. God's word is not going to return void. And so it's going
to have an effect. But because of the internet, they can't really effectively silence me. Because
even though I'm banned from these countries physically, my preaching is still permeating
through YouTube and other social media. But of course, they're trying to censor us on social
media as well. But at this point, we're still making huge waves with social media. And we're
able to get tens of thousands of views, literally over a million views every month.
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