And I want you to listen carefully to the sermon because this goes to the core of the
whole sermon this morning is wrapped up in the next really five minutes of what I'm saying.
This is the part to be listening to.
I said to him this, I said what if you instead of doing that, instead of doing what everybody
is telling you to do and man's wisdom, I said what if you went out and spent forty hours
a week just soul winning.
I mean don't go out and just pass out pliers but knock each door you knock, ask them if
they know for sure if they died, ask them if you can show them how to be saved.
I said then let's say that you were to go out for forty hours a week knocking those
doors trying to give the gospel and I said let's say you got somebody saved just one
every three hours.
You know what I mean?
In three hours of solid door knocking and trying to witness to people you would get
somebody saved once every three hours that you spent out.
Pretty reasonable right?
Because sometimes you'll talk to two people at a time and get two people saved.
So I said averaging one per three hours is a pretty reasonable goal.
I said now let's time that by the four weeks that you're going to spend doing it or let's
say three weeks.
I think it might have been three or four.
Let's say three weeks.
That's a hundred and twenty hours you have won forty people the Lord.
Forty people are saved.
Forty people are going to heaven.
Forty people will never perish but have everlasting life.
Forty people's life has been changed forever.
The Holy Ghost lives in their bosom.
They will go to heaven.
They cannot lose their salvation.
You'll see them on the streets of gold and heaven.
I said let me ask you something.
If you knocked all those doors for three weeks and nobody showed up at your first service,
what have you accomplished nothing?
You invited a bunch of people to something that they did not attend.
They didn't hear the gospel.
They didn't get saved.
They're all going to hell.
They didn't come to church.
They didn't learn the Bible.
What have you accomplished?
Nothing.
I said they labor in vain that build it except the Lord build the house.
I said but if you went out there and won those forty people the Lord in three weeks, I said
what have you accomplished?
Was it a waste of time?
Was it vanity?
Was it worthless?
I said even if nobody shows up at your service my friend, even if nobody comes to that service,
you have accomplished great things for God.
Even if nobody comes.
Even if your first service has nobody in it, you have accomplished more for God.
I said but it takes faith to do it the soul winning way.
See man's methods are tested and tried and proven.
I mean I've even seen them give mathematical formulas saying if you invite ten thousand
people on average you'll have ten visitors or if you invite fifty thousand people on
average you'll have fifty visitors and they give you the math but my friend this is not
a math book.
It's spiritually discerned.
Building a church is not working out a math problem.
Building a church is getting on your knees, begging for God's power, filled with the Spirit,
preaching the Word, preaching the Gospel, winning souls and letting God do the work.
I don't want to attend a church that man built.
I want to attend a church that God built and let me explain something to you right now.
Only God could build Faithful Word Baptist Church.
It's true.
Only God could build this church.
You know that's the truth.
I mean look at what we preach.
Look at what we stand for.
It flies in the face of everything that America stands for.
It flies in the face of modern wisdom, of modern society, of modern culture.
It goes against the grain with Baptists.
It goes against the grain with non-Baptists.
It's the Bible.
It's the truth.
It's hard preaching.
It's zealous soul winning.
It's on fire for God and it flies in the face of what's popular.
The churches that are succeeding today are not churches like Faithful Word Baptist Church
but Faithful Word Baptist Church is succeeding because God is building it.
That's why.
And so you have to understand that only God can build a church like this and if you don't
have the faith, if you don't have the power of God, if you're not filled with the Spirit,
don't even attempt to start a church like Faithful Word Baptist Church because it won't
work.
Say, well, I'll do what Pastor Steven Anderson has done, I'll follow his methods.
My methods, I mean when I say my methods, they're not my methods, I'm just saying the
methods that I use to start this church, they don't work.
I mean I'm just going to tell you right now, they don't.
It doesn't work.
Oh, if I preach like Pastor Anderson, right, then I'll succeed at starting a church.
It will make you fail to preach like Pastor Anderson.
It's true unless God builds it.
It's true.
I mean, look, you can believe that or not believe it but it's the truth.
The methods that work are going out and giving everybody a candy cane, inviting 20,000 people
and giving them prizes and having a carnival and a circus.
That works.
It will get people in.
The way it works is to get the Christian rock and roll.
It will bring people.
It will draw a crowd.
It will work.
The way to do it is to send out a glossy advertisement that makes people look like, oh, this is come
as you are and leave as you came and stay as you've been.
That's what draws a crowd today, my friend.
You get up and preach on sin.
You get up and don't compromise.
You get up and preach hard.
You say I'm King James only.
You say it's easy believe-ism.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
It's by grace through faith.
You tell them the TV's out of hell.
That's a recipe for having nobody in your church.
And yet here we are.
Here it is.
Faithful Word.
Baptist Church.
Here it is.
The soul winning army, the army of soul winners who knocks doors up and down this city every
week and win souls to Christ seven days a week.
How?
Who did it?
Was it Pastor Anderson?
No.
It was God that built it.
I couldn't build this church.
I don't know how to build this kind of group.
I don't know how to teach people what I've taught.
It's God that did it.
And if God doesn't do it, it cannot get done.
You can do it, man, listen to me.
You must decide.
Do it man's way.
Give man's results and succeed.
Succeed at being a phony.
Succeed at being a watered down preacher.
Or do it God's way, God's method, God will build it and you'll succeed.