“I tell people what they need to hear. What God has told me to tell them. They need to repent from their sin and start doing what’s right. They have to straighten out.”
(Wes Bredenhof – Abiding Grace) I was at a conference in Sydney when I met him. He was hard to miss. He was wearing a bright pink jacket and a red hat that said, “Make Australia Godly Again.” I’m not sure why he singled me out. Perhaps it was because I only knew a few people at this conference and I was standing there solo drinking my coffee during a break.
We got to talking and, since the conference was about religious freedom, I asked why he had an interest in this topic. That’s when his face lit up. He whipped out his smartphone and he showed me a picture of him standing in downtown Sydney with a giant sign….
It said, “Politicians & Bureaucrats Who Do Not Repent Will Perish, the Same as Anyone Else.” He told me he took this sign into Sydney weekly.
I asked him what kind of a reaction he got from people passing by. He enthusiastically told me about the great positive response. Many young people would stop and ask if they could have a picture with him. In his mind, this was because they were on board with his message. I asked him if he ever faced any negativity. He didn’t.