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04 STANDING FOR TRUTH
Christian Voice has never been afraid to stand for the truth of the Gospel. In August 2006 the Inspector in charge of the South Wales Police Minorities Support Unit told our National Director to stop giving out evangelistic leaflets outside the Cardiff homosexual ‘Mardi Gras’ event.
Stephen refused and carried on giving them out. The next words he heard were ‘You are under arrest.’ He was held in the cells in Cardiff Police Station for four hours and charged with a public order offence.
When the case came to court, the Crown Prosecutors dropped all charges against him. Stephen sued the police for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution and won damages. He has handed out prophetic evangelistic leaflets many times since and has to date never been arrested again.
Rom 10:14 … how shall they hear without a preacher?
We have supported other Christians accused of public order offences for preaching the Gospel, with Stephen twice providing expert evidence for one of our members. We have also put other preachers in touch with Christian lawyers. Not a single one of these brave souls has ever been convicted when properly represented.
05 STREET WITNESS
In 2004 Christian Voice opposed both the Civil Partnership Act and the Gender Recognition Act as they went through Parliament. But outside Westminster, atheists had the Lord Jesus himself in the sights.
In May 2004, details of a blasphemous article against the Lord published in the Sunday Mirror magazine came to light after prayer and by the grace of God. We called our first-ever street witness, outside the Trinity Mirror offices in London’s Canary Wharf. Fifty Christians turned up for a two-hour event.
Following a smaller vigil outside the Richmond-on-Thames home of the group’s Finance Director, we were invited into the Trinity Mirror boardroom. After a fiery exchange, the directors agreed to publish an apology.
The Lord had revealed that street witness changes things in the spiritual realm.
2Cor 10:4 For the weapons 0f our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;
06 DEFENDING THE NAME OF THE LORD
In December 2004, we went to St Andrews to oppose the staging by students of Terrence McNally’s blasphemous and foul-mouthed play ‘Corpus Christi’.
Just the news of our proposed street witness led directly to the resignation of a director of the Crawford Arts Centre where it was staged and also that of one of the Centre’s major financial supporters. We handed out leaflets preaching the real Jesus and once more the Lord worked a miracle. One of our number stood up in the theatre to preach the Gospel while our National Director was able afterwards to engage with the student cast.
Christian Voice started a witness at the London Gay Pride Parade in July 2005, which others have now taken on as an annual protest.
Also in 2005 the Co-op Bank told us to remove our account for being ‘homophobic’. The bank said our views were incompatible with its ‘support for diversity’. The Lord used the Co-op Bank’s approach to raise our profile. Not long after, the Bank was mired in scandal and financial disaster.
In 2008, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead put a blasphemous statue of the Lord Jesus on show. We organised a Christian witness outside the Baltic Centre. The Centre removed the offending item.
In July 2009, two weeks after that year’s London Gay Pride, we organised a March of Repentance in London. Hundreds of Christians marched from Hyde Park to Parliament expressing their grief for the sins of the nation:
Joel 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
07 JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA
In January 2005 BBC2 screened the blasphemous Jerry Springer the Opera. Christian Voice called for a peaceful Christian presence outside BBC offices around the UK. The Lord brought 1500 Christians out on a freezing night, 400-500 at the BBC’s White City HQ alone. 55,000 protested in writing.
Next, Jerry Springer the Opera went on a 21-theatre tour in 2006. We produced low-cost, effective leaflets and gave them out to theatre-goers in advance and during performances.
As he so often does, the Lord God Almighty heard his people’s united prayers, backed up by their faithful actions, and did the miraculous. He made theatre-goers shun the production. Only one theatre covered more than one-third of its seats, every single one lost money, and the producers, Avalon, lost £500,000. The show’s director, militant atheist Stewart Lee, blamed Christian Voice for the failure of the UK tour, which he said was ‘ruined’. We gave God the glory.
No theatre has since repeated such a blasphemous experiment in our land.
08 DON’T INSULT JESUS!
In August 2008, the South Wales Echo published an article insulting Jesus Christ. We took a leaflet campaign onto the street outside the office of one of their main advertisers in Cardiff. We followed it up with a ‘flash’ prayer and praise meeting in the paper’s open-plan reception area. We knew what we were doing. We were holding an evangelical church service.
But it was outside the staff’s experience. The fear of God descended and the directors hastily invited us into their offices. In the next edition they printed an apology. This was unheard of, and it shows the impact Christians can make when the Lord graces us with the courage of our convictions.
Later that year, Waterstones in Cardiff cancelled a reading of a blasphemous poem after protests by our members.
Two Welsh Assembly Members then invited the poet, Patrick Jones, into the Senedd building in Cardiff.
We called a witness and on a cold December morning the Lord brought 300 Christians from all over Wales to stand outside, ten times the number who heard the poem inside. Christian Voice then helped with a letter campaign in the constituency of one of those assembly members. She resigned her seat.
In March 2010, Classic FM dropped all promotion of Eric Idle’s blasphemous ‘Not the Messiah’, after receiving a deluge of complaints from Christian listeners alerted by Christian Voice. By the grace of God we shall continue to stand up for the Lord Jesus and his name.
Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
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