‘It’s Up To You’: Video Shows Christian Preacher Barely Flinch At Gunpoint During Tense Street Encounter

A street preacher appeared to remain calm as an aggrieved passerby pulled what resembled a gun on him Wednesday in San Francisco, according to a video.

Kevin Kihara of the California branch of Christ’s Forgiveness Ministries (CFM), a non-denominational Christian ministry based in Canada, was speaking about freedom from captivity with a Christian perspective when the tense incident happened, a video shows.

Kihara is heard in the video addressing an out-of-view person who interrupted him, “I’ll try harder — but you need to try less being like somebody you’re not, and start to humble yourself and be somebody that God made you to be.”

“He didn’t make a man to be a woman. He made the man to be a man! He didn’t make the woman to be a man, he made the woman to be a woman. And this is the truth!”

That is when the person — silver-haired and sporting tattoos, a striped t-shirt, and denim overalls — allegedly charges at Kihara, who stands his ground and says, “What’re you gonna do — come attack me now?”

The person then appears to draw what resembles a gun from a white handbag and aims it point-blank at Kihara’s head, prompting the preacher to lean slightly backwards, the video shows. “I should,” the person seems to say. CFM claims the person in the video is a male identifying as a female. (RELATED: Christian Women’s Hoops Team Achieves Championship Glory Following Trans Opponent Slapping Them With Abuse Allegations)

“Hey, man, that’s up to you,” Kihara says as the person flounces away in the video. “If you wanna pull that on me— ”

“Shut the fuck up!” replies the person, wheeling around to momentarily face Kihara again, the video shows.

“But God bless you,” Kihara continues as the person storms off. “So you just threatened me with a gun, you just pulled a gun on my face. Man, Lord have mercy on you!”

“If that was real,” a commenter wrote, “my brother in Christ was ready and prepared to die and give the glory to the Lord. Prefect [sic] example of not fearing death, men, things, or anything else because even though I die, I shall live.”

“Did he get charged for brandishing a fire arm [sic] and threatening him? Does he have a permit for that firearm?” asked another commenter.

Kihara went on to have a friendly encounter with another passerby who seemed to remember him from a previous street preaching encounter. He told Kihara, “You told me to be humble, brother,” according to the video.

Kihara’s encounter is one of latest to involve tense moments. Street preacher Matthew Meinecke, twice arrested in 2022 for street preaching at a Pride event and a pro-abortion rally, had his Bible torn to shreds, kicked around and dumped in a toilet at a Seattle Pride rally in late June 2023.

Military veteran Hans Schmidt was shot in the head while preaching on a Glendale, Arizona street in November 2023. He was rushed to a hospital unresponsive and with a bullet in the brain; medical experts reportedly planned to perform an autopsy. He survived, albeit with bullet fragments left in his brain as removing them was deemed too risky, according to ABC15 Arizona. He resumed street preaching in defiance of the knowledge that his attacker was still out there, the outlet reported.