In fact, I remember one time I was at a McDonald's after soul winning with my soul winning partner
and he was actually a member of First Baptist Church.
Brother Hiles was his pastor at one point and he was young.
He grew up there.
He grew up there since he was a little kid.
And we were talking about church and we were just talking about soul winning.
And the guy behind him, this was in Los Angeles, a guy behind him said, hey, are you guys Christian?
And we're like, yeah, we're Christians.
And he was like, man, I used to go to church long ago back in Indiana.
Okay.
He's like, that's where I'm from.
He's like, yeah, do you guys know of a church called First Baptist Church of Hammond?
And he's like, that's my home church.
That's where I came from.
He's like, yeah, Brother Hiles used to be my pastor.
And my friend was like, that was my pastor.
And then he's like, yeah, man, when I was over there, I used to think that guy went
too overboard, man.
He used to say some things about the homos and stuff.
And it was like, talk about killing them, you know, that they should kill themselves
and all these things.
And I thought to myself like, man, this guy's overboard.
He said, but then I came to California.
And I was just like, man, Brother Hiles was right.
And this guy was like backslidden, like he was really backslidden.
But then he was just like, dude, Brother Hiles was right about what he was saying, you know.
So this guy was like a hard preacher and he made a huge impact on the independent fundamental
Baptist movement.