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 is 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
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, a 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, and 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 10s of 1000s of views, literally over a million views every month.
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