How I feel about scaring people into the Kingdom of God

Thanks to Ben for this video.

I know the anger he's talking about. I was at a very legalistic church on mothers day a few years ago(kind of an obligation, a relative invited us). The church has a bus route that picks up kids for their sunday school. They had encouraged the kids to invite their parents to mothers day service.

after "jokingly" talking about how fathers don't get enough credit(on mothers day, nice!), he started into a "true story" about a young woman who attended church for the first time, because her daughter had invited her. This woman didn't like what the preacher had to say and she left the service early. The preacher tried to stop her and talk to her outside, but she was so defiant and angry she told him off and left.

Then she went to the bar, and brought a guy home to sleep with. This "preacher" then went on to describe how the guy from the bar molested the daughter and murdered the woman and the girl.

He then says "Why did this happen? Because she rejected God. When we're out of his protection, awful things can happen!"

I was sitting next to a young woman who was obviously there for the first time because her daughter had invited her. She was black and everyone else was white. I cannot describe the feeling of anger for this man I had, and how my heart broke for this woman. To this day I wish I had followed my gut and stood up and yelled at him "who the hell do you think you are?" or turned to the woman and told her this was all BS. Instead I just looked at her, shook my head from side to side with an apologetic look on my face, stood up and walked out of his sermon in protest. I just couldn't listen anymore. Becky was outside with the kids on their playground equipment. Thankfully she didn't have to hear the worst "turn or burn" sermon since the 1700's.