BOSTONIA, VA - Bostonia Baptist Church scheduled missionary and preacher Paul Washer to guest speak on Sunday, but the church of 500 may have gotten more than they bargained for. In lieu of one of his renowned expository sermons, Washer elected to glare angrily at the congregation for a full 43 minutes before closing in prayer, sources confirmed Thursday. As the choir's final strains of Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee faded throughout the sanctuary, Washer stepped up to the pulpit, took a drink of water, and launched into his carefully-prepared cold, angry, silent stare.

"It was powerful," 21-year-old Ryan Worthington recalls. "When he got to his second sermon point, which consisted of a slightly more aggressive and tortured facial expression, I broke down weeping as I realized that Chris

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