Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

understand, but I was about to find out what he was talking about.

He pushed his way through the crowd to get to me and wanted me to stop playing guitar on this passenger train. He decided the best way to stop me was to grab my guitar and pull it, letting me know we could not continue singing and worshipping on the train. The only problem was, as he jerked my guitar to stop me from playing and remove us from the train, the guitar was strapped around my neck, so it jerked my head forward. This policeman literally drug me off the train, pulling my guitar jerking my head forward. The police threw us all off the train and had a little meeting with us standing on the train station platform. He was flailing his arms high in the air and shouting in Japanese, basically telling us we were not allowed to play music and sing on the train. Even though many of the passengers seemed to be enjoying it, he was demanding we stop. I didn’t know what else to do, so I clasped my hands in front of my face, bowed forward from my waist and said, “Sorry!” As he continued his rant, I continued to bow and say, “Sorry! Sorry!” People getting on and off the train were staring at us as we were causing a big scene on the platform. The policeman finally handed my guitar back to me and admonished us once again that we could not be playing music on the train. I bowed a few more times and said, “Sorry! Sorry!” We walked over to the train again and when the doors opened, we boarded the train that we knew was going in a big circle around Tokyo. As soon as the doors

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