21-year-old Minnesota church attendee reveals leftist agitators still harassing faithful: 'Spiritual battle'
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
FIRST ON FOX: Caleb Phillips, a 21-year-old regular attendee of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, said that leftist agitators have continued to harass and heckle congregants going to services the last two Sundays following their disruption of a service on Jan. 18.
He said that he sees the "hatred" being spewed on him and other congregants as a form of "spiritual battle" against the church.
"It says in scripture that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but is against the spirit, the evil spiritual forces of the world. And I think that this is a situation where that is very much true," Phillips said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
A recent college graduate, Phillips said he has been attending Cities Church since October and that he felt drawn to it because of its "biblically-based" theology and leadership.
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But on Jan. 18, while attending a service with his girlfriend, dozens of anti-ICE agitators streamed into the church sanctuary, screaming chants and bringing the service to a grinding halt.
Phillips described the invasion as a "traumatic scenario" that immediately caused many of the children across the church to begin crying out of fear and confusion. He said the protesters accused congregants of harboring a pastor who is associated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying they "should be ashamed as a church" and that they are "not real Christians."
"I was shocked," he said. "It was just such a sudden and just loud [noise], kind of like as if a firework had gone off."
"Children should not see something like that or experience something like it," he added.
Rather than being intimidated, he said that Cities Church congregants reconvened to finish their service that same evening. Further, services the past two Sundays have been "packed" with faithful, he said. At the same time, Phillips said there has been a continued presence of protesters heckling and harassing congregants outside the sanctuary.
With the help of the police, the agitators have not entered the church again.
The Sunday after the church invasion, Phillips shared that anti-ICE agitators hurled racial attacks at his girlfriend, who is Asian, and accused her of "hanging out with Nazis" as they exited a service.
He described walking out of the church to face the protesters as stepping into an "ice bath."
"Just the safety and the peace and the joy that we were feeling in the church, in our worship of Jesus Christ, going out and seeing people who are spewing hatred towards us, it made me feel sad …
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
FIRST ON FOX: Caleb Phillips, a 21-year-old regular attendee of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, said that leftist agitators have continued to harass and heckle congregants going to services the last two Sundays following their disruption of a service on Jan. 18.
He said that he sees the "hatred" being spewed on him and other congregants as a form of "spiritual battle" against the church.
"It says in scripture that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but is against the spirit, the evil spiritual forces of the world. And I think that this is a situation where that is very much true," Phillips said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
A recent college graduate, Phillips said he has been attending Cities Church since October and that he felt drawn to it because of its "biblically-based" theology and leadership.
FEDERAL AGENTS ARREST 2 MORE IN CONNECTION TO MINNESOTA CHURCH STORMING
But on Jan. 18, while attending a service with his girlfriend, dozens of anti-ICE agitators streamed into the church sanctuary, screaming chants and bringing the service to a grinding halt.
Phillips described the invasion as a "traumatic scenario" that immediately caused many of the children across the church to begin crying out of fear and confusion. He said the protesters accused congregants of harboring a pastor who is associated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying they "should be ashamed as a church" and that they are "not real Christians."
"I was shocked," he said. "It was just such a sudden and just loud [noise], kind of like as if a firework had gone off."
"Children should not see something like that or experience something like it," he added.
Rather than being intimidated, he said that Cities Church congregants reconvened to finish their service that same evening. Further, services the past two Sundays have been "packed" with faithful, he said. At the same time, Phillips said there has been a continued presence of protesters heckling and harassing congregants outside the sanctuary.
With the help of the police, the agitators have not entered the church again.
The Sunday after the church invasion, Phillips shared that anti-ICE agitators hurled racial attacks at his girlfriend, who is Asian, and accused her of "hanging out with Nazis" as they exited a service.
He described walking out of the church to face the protesters as stepping into an "ice bath."
"Just the safety and the peace and the joy that we were feeling in the church, in our worship of Jesus Christ, going out and seeing people who are spewing hatred towards us, it made me feel sad …
21-year-old Minnesota church attendee reveals leftist agitators still harassing faithful: 'Spiritual battle'
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
FIRST ON FOX: Caleb Phillips, a 21-year-old regular attendee of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, said that leftist agitators have continued to harass and heckle congregants going to services the last two Sundays following their disruption of a service on Jan. 18.
He said that he sees the "hatred" being spewed on him and other congregants as a form of "spiritual battle" against the church.
"It says in scripture that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but is against the spirit, the evil spiritual forces of the world. And I think that this is a situation where that is very much true," Phillips said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
A recent college graduate, Phillips said he has been attending Cities Church since October and that he felt drawn to it because of its "biblically-based" theology and leadership.
FEDERAL AGENTS ARREST 2 MORE IN CONNECTION TO MINNESOTA CHURCH STORMING
But on Jan. 18, while attending a service with his girlfriend, dozens of anti-ICE agitators streamed into the church sanctuary, screaming chants and bringing the service to a grinding halt.
Phillips described the invasion as a "traumatic scenario" that immediately caused many of the children across the church to begin crying out of fear and confusion. He said the protesters accused congregants of harboring a pastor who is associated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying they "should be ashamed as a church" and that they are "not real Christians."
"I was shocked," he said. "It was just such a sudden and just loud [noise], kind of like as if a firework had gone off."
"Children should not see something like that or experience something like it," he added.
Rather than being intimidated, he said that Cities Church congregants reconvened to finish their service that same evening. Further, services the past two Sundays have been "packed" with faithful, he said. At the same time, Phillips said there has been a continued presence of protesters heckling and harassing congregants outside the sanctuary.
With the help of the police, the agitators have not entered the church again.
The Sunday after the church invasion, Phillips shared that anti-ICE agitators hurled racial attacks at his girlfriend, who is Asian, and accused her of "hanging out with Nazis" as they exited a service.
He described walking out of the church to face the protesters as stepping into an "ice bath."
"Just the safety and the peace and the joy that we were feeling in the church, in our worship of Jesus Christ, going out and seeing people who are spewing hatred towards us, it made me feel sad …
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