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Parents and Millstones

689 views · Published 26 January 2015 · 14:34 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Tony Miano · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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WARNING (This video contains instances of profanity and blasphemy. Parental discretion is advised).

This was Tony's last open-air sermon of Beaverton Grace Bible Church's 2015 Portland Comic Con outreach.

Throughout the weekend Tony, Pastor Chuck, and other members of the team noticed an unusually high number of parents mocking Jesus and the preaching of His gospel, with their children in tow. More shocking still was the several instances when God-hating parents encouraged their children to mock the preaching, too.

So, Tony decided to focus on the sin of causing children to stumble (Matthew 18:1-6). Tony made it clear to those within the sound of his voice that to teach a child to hate God is to hate the child.

Toward the end of Tony's sermon, a self-professed lesbian decided to mock the preaching by dancing next to Tony. Moments later, a group of about 30 young teenagers began to rail against Tony. Some were so angry they were literally gnashing their teeth as they cursed, blasphemed God, and boasted about their sexual immorality and other forms of depravity.

The outburst was unprovoked in that neither Tony nor anyone on the team had any interaction with the kids either before or during Tony's sermon. What Tony and the team later determined was that the kids were part of a large crowd that earlier was engaged with a group of "shock and awe" street preachers, who had since left the area, whose own hateful and perverse rhetoric riled the crowd. It is likely that when the "Shock and Awe" street preachers left the area, the group of kids saw Tony preaching and assumed he was part of that group of preachers.

"Shock and Awe" street preachers, many of whom are apostate Pelagians (it is unknown if any of the other street preachers present were Pelagians), often provoke people to sin and then call them unrighteous, while they themselves claim to be righteous (many of them, following false teachers like Jedd Smock, hold to the false teaching of "sinless perfectionism").

After much thought and seeking some counsel, Tony decided not to include the video footage of his interaction with the group of teens. Their language and behavior was so perverse and wicked that Tony determined it would be unprofitable to expose either Christians or non-Christians to the sounds and images.

Tony and Derek Hanson (a member of the team and the worship leader at Beaverton Grace Bible Church) talked about how incredible and almost eerie it was that immediately after Tony preached a sermon in defense of the souls of children that he would be accosted by a group of children so vile and blasphemous. What a sobering and somewhat frightening indication of how intense the spiritual warfare is surrounding the open-air proclamation of the gospel.

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