When it comes to our church, you know, we might do certain things that are just traditional
things to do, but you know what is the problem is when we basically are confronted with the
Word of God that's telling us that something that we're doing is unbiblical, but we just
say, well, this is how we've always done it, you know, and this is how it's been done for
hundreds of years and I don't think all these other people were wrong. Are you telling me
that Brother so-and-so was wrong? The hero of the faith? No. The Bible is our final authority
in all matters of faith and practice, not Baptist tradition. You know, there are things
that Baptist churches have been doing for hundreds of years that might not necessarily
be right. Let's throw them out. Let's not do it. You know, I mean, personally, I, you
know, I'm not a fan of the altar call. You know, everybody comes and bows down at the
feet of the pastor at the steps leading up to the pulpit, you know, and basically or
the Baptist confessional booth where we all bow our heads and close our eyes. You know,
if you were, if you're struggling with sin in your life that I just preached on, you
know, slip up your hand. No one's looking around and it's like, okay, I see that hand.
Okay, I see that hand. It doesn't seem biblical to me. I don't see it anywhere in the Bible.
It seems Catholic, you know, all of those things seem Catholic. I'm not saying that
churches who do that are bad or wicked. I'm not criticizing them. I don't, I'm not saying
that that church is a bad church. Don't go to that church. That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just saying we're not going to do it in our church cause it's not biblical. And I've
even had people get upset at us for not having an altar call and invitation saying that we're
not doing it right. We're not right with God. You're, this is a liberal church cause you're
not having an altar call and invitation.
With your eyes still closed, if you prayed that prayer, would you just raise your hands
up high all over this room so Jen can see him really high. I see hands everywhere. We're
just going to wait. We're going to give you an opportunity. We're just going to all right.
What is it that you want to surrender to the Lord? And we're going to come lay it all over
this altar and even, you know, on this stage because it might be a bottleneck. So right
now, just all over this room as we sing, just come kneel. Hi, everybody's going to come.
We're just going to go lay it all over this room.
But you know what? It's not biblical. We are trying not to be based on tradition here,
but rather to be based on the word of God. So if I see something that's just not biblical,
let's cut it from the service. I mean, good. How long do you guys want to be here tonight?
You know, I just want to just be here as short as possible and get the job done. So let's
just only do stuff that God told us to do. Let's cut out all the fluff, right? Let's
sing the hymns. Let's pray. Let's preach. Let's fellowship. Let's not waste a bunch
of time bowing down at a staircase when the Bible said don't make any stairs to go to
the altar specifically. I mean, look, I'm all for having a long church service if it's
packed with profitability. It's packed with God's word. If it's packed with learning and
doctrine and singing and praising God, not just this drawn out whatever service just
wasting time. And I just don't want to waste my time with stuff that's not biblical. I
feel that everything we do in this church is biblical. Singing a hymn is biblical. Praying
is biblical. Reading the Bible is biblical. And preaching is biblical. You know, that's
what we're going to do.