Although under a hot noon sun, he still decided to continue with the spreading of the message from the Bible, walking for about a mile, he finally saw a gathering of women who were waiting for a driver to come pick their goods to the market so they could be preserved ahead of the next market day, and also he saw a young man whose skin had been dedicated to tattoos, with a hair of many colors and had piercings on his ears, nose, eyelids, lips made of various colors, his fingers hoarding rings as different designs as possible with his wrists having a multitude of bracelets, then in between two fingers was a wrap that was lifted towards his lips, he pulled in some smoke as the Preacher walked past him to the women and pushed out the shadow of the fire slowly while the Preacher said.
Good Afternoon virtuous women, great mothers and industrious Ladies, I'm glad to see for the fact that you guys are commercial beings who don't just sit around and play the victim's role in a world where women are less expected to be this great as far as business is concerned, it's a pleasure to meet you guys, and I'm not here alone, I'm with the Bible, The Holy Spirit and The Lord Jesus Christ, who desires to give you all, us all, an expected end so as to make sure that we reap the fruits of our labour and trust me there's more in Him than in this world and through Christ, you can do great and greater things because His light would shine upon you and He shall guide you through the hurdles of life and give you peace in the midst of storms, and the more He lives in you, the more the glory you will hope for and achieve.....
This conversation continued into Bible verses reading and a bit more and for about 60 minutes, He spoke with a gathering of about 10 women and prayed with them and 4 accepted Christ as he was on the session with them and while he was about introducing himself to them, the driver arrived and they left him to keep eyes on their commodities and no good introduction was made, well, he's glad he at least spoke with them.
While he was about to walk away from the half-raised structure, there was seated the one he walked past who's known as Terror-Boy (T-Boy) and still he decided to walk away without acknowledging him again.
"Does Jesus condemn Sinners?" T-Boy asked and the Preacher stopped.
"Good day brother, God bless you", the Preacher responded and T-Boy laughed.
"Do You greet and bless someone you have judged?" T-Boy asked again
"well, I never judged you" answered the Preacher
"So there's no need to preach Christ to me so I'd repent?" T-Boy asked
"well, I was led by the holy spirit, to the women who gathered there and not you, maybe, God would someday send a minister to you, I need to go home now and rest, but if you know you want to repent, why not just do it?" said and asked, the Preacher
"well, I need someone to pray for me, just like you did for them, and I need my repentance, today" T-Boy responded
"okay, let's go to John 3v16" the Preacher agreed but
"and it says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever that does not want to perish would believe in Him and have everlasting life" T-Boy recited rather than allowing the Preacher to do so
"you are right, but actually it's whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life" the Preacher tried to correct
"same words, different arrangements, same meaning, keep your correction, win my soul" this time, T-Boy had stepped closer to him with his boys around after they had extorted funds from the women to be given to T-Boy who claimed to be the owner of the structure they used, and the Preacher, after seeing the moves decided not to be afraid, he gave T-Boy 4 steps forward to show fearless confidence and his boys were angered but T-Boy calmed them by lifting two fingers Signifying Peace and the Preacher said.
"I think the best time to repent is when you are about to die, by so doing, there would be no reason why you can, shall, will, or may be seen as a sinner or sin again, so if you let me go, it shouldn't only be that neither I nor you are scared, but it should come from the fact that you are sure to meet me again as a Leader and Area Father that you are"
These words if not accepted would make T-Boy appear inferior and the Preacher otherwise, few seconds to make it five minutes of a great standing ovation for the words spoken he lit up his sticks, pulled in the smoke and pushed out the same on the Preacher's face, and said to him.
"being scared isn't a mistake or a sign of fear or weakness, I'll let you go but I'll let you know that to bite, you don't need to bark." and turned to his 5 boys and said "active freedom" and they spaced away from him and the Preacher went away feeling some form of relief, he then arrived home, got his body in order and rested for it was already 9pm.
To Be Continued.....