O.R. Fauss has went home to be with the Lord

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by ILG

My husband and I heard him preach a revival when we first got in the church. We were absolutely scared to death! Even too scared to get up and go to the bathroom! LOL!

Originally Posted by ILG

I remember he preached on Judas......saying there was a Judas in the crowd. I can still hear him yell.......Juuuuuddddaassssss!!!!! Don't you get up! Don't you leave this auditorium!!!!!! LOL!

Originally Posted by ILG

My husband and I were new in the church and we were scared witless!!

Today, I believe OR Fauss is sitting in heaven having a good chuckle with God about his foolishness. And maybe a bit of a cry too.

Originally Posted by crakjak

He was a fire and brimstone preacher, the threats of death and hell, as the primary method of evangelizing. Now I haven't heard him in about 40 years, so that could have very well changed, I certainly hope so. He was respected in the UPC as one of the greats, but his preaching was spiritual abuse to me as a child. But, hey that was the method in those days.

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

I remember him preaching about hell when I went to the UPC youth camp as a teenager in Arkansas...

Sounds like a jolly old bloke that you could sit back with an enjoy a relaxing meal of fish a chips and a pint, he does!

[thaddaeus417]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Amen. Unbelievers-agnostics-atheists-modernists-universalists will not cool off Hell one degree or shorten it one second. Thank you Elder Fauss for preaching Hell hot and eternity long.

Amen, you can have your judgment now or later.

1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

[UnTraditional]

Never heard the man preach myself. My heart goes out to the family.

[BeenThinkin]

He preached some himself, in his Monday night Celebration of Life, (by video), and it was the typical style that he is so known for. It was a great service. Bobbie Shoemake sang, and her hair may have turned gray but she can still sing! Rev. Jerry Jones (General Secretary of the UPCI), did a great job ministering to a house full.

One of the great lines of the night was the Rev. Ken Gurley, District Supt of the South Texas District, telling about a sunset in Key West Florida. As the sun cleared the horizon everyone began to clap. Someone asked why the clapping. The response was, "You just witnessed another successful sunset!" A great metaphor!

Been Thinkin