Ray Comfort made a “huge mistake” — and he doesn’t want to repeat it.

The New Zealand-born evangelist recently held a question-and-answer session through Turning Point USA at Cal State Fullerton, where he faced hecklers who challenged him on Christianity.

There was one problem, though. He said he didn’t make it clear enough from the start that he didn’t want to hear from people who were already believers. Instead, he told CBN News, he wanted to “guard” the microphone for agnostics, atheists, and skeptics.

He’ll make sure of that at his next TPUSA event at University of California, Irvine, on Nov. 13.

“One thing we’ve learned,” he told CBN News, “[is] we’ve got to keep Christians away from the microphone, because, if a Christian gets to that microphone, it kills the whole thing.”

He went on to say it’s “boring” for unbelievers to hear Christians bicker about theology.

“We’ll guard that microphone,” Comfort explained, “and say, ‘This is for atheists, this is for skeptics, this is for unbelievers, because we’re here for you. And, if you’re a Christian and you’ve got problems, we’ve got someone over there who can minister to you and give you literature and pray with you, but this is reserved for hecklers.'”

Last month, Comfort told CBN News he “absolutely admired” Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in early September during an open-air event at Utah Valley University.

Comfort said he would not allow Kirk’s violent murder scare him into silence.

“The day before Charlie was killed, I told our crew, our camera crew and our planning team, that I wanted to go to 13 universities in Southern California,” said Comfort. “After what happened to Charlie, I am going to do it. I’m resolved to do it. I will not fear. I’ll not be intimidated, and I want every Christian to feel that way too because, if God’s for us, nothing can be against us.”

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