You know, "Oh man, my job's going bad and my family's messin' and you know, I'm sick all the time and all that stuff."
But you know, if you'd start thinking about other people and caring about other people and helping other people, it's going to make you a lot happier in life.
And you know, what is soul winning all about? Soul winning is not about us. It's about others.
I mean, when we go out and go soul winning, we knock thousands and thousands and thousands of doors and thousands of people.
I mean, look at that map, this ground we've covered. I mean, we've knocked the doors of hundreds of thousands of people with the gospel.
Our church and putting money in the offering plate and part of our church and singing the songs with us and helping us out.
Guess what? 99.9% of the people that we go out and try to help and try to preach to are ever going to do anything for us.
They're never even going to grace us with their presence one time, just slam the door and don't even care, tell you to drop dead.
The ones who listen to you in the gospel, they're probably not going to do anything for us ever again.
And people who get saved, many of them are never even going to set foot in this church.
So why do we do it? This is the way to build a fast growing church today.
One reason, it's for them to receive nothing. It doesn't make us any money.
It doesn't make our church do our yard work for us or anything or cook us dinner or anything.
They do nothing for us. That's okay. That's not our goal. Our goal is not to go out.
It's to serve. It's to help them.
And you know what? 99% of churches don't do any soul winning.
Jeremy, that's why they don't person that's never going to set foot outside their apartment.
And the only pulls if somebody comes, wants another yuppie SUV to pull into their parking lot and throw money in the plate.
Look pretty in the pew and make their church thrive and be successful and grow.
Said upon this rock, I will build my church, if hell shall not prevail against it.
So that's up to him. Grow me and help you. That's his blessing and that's up to him.
Concern? It's my job to get up and preach. It's my job to serve God.
Let God, his own house, whether he wants it to be big or small, he told us to go out and preach the gospel to every creature and that's what we're going to do.
Most churches, they don't care about a person that can't get out of the house.
They don't care about that teenager. God, don't believe in the Bible, never take them to church.
Hey, I care about that teenager. I'm going to bring him the gospel.
I'm going to come to him and bring him the gospel.
They don't care about a speaker that doesn't even speak English to learn Spanish and to go preach the gospel to them.
Why? Because there's nothing in return to them.
They'd rather take all their time and all their money and all their resources into some glossy mailer
to send to your house to tell you, "Oh, come to our church and we promise that we won't preach on your sin
and we promise we won't talk about money and we promise that the music will be contemporary."
We literally got a thing in the mail that said, "This is our pledge to you.
Number one, the music will be contemporary. Number two, we will not mention money.
Number three, it will be a relevant message. Translation, it won't come from the Bible.
Code word doctrine, we'll just preach feel-good stuff that applies to you and your personal life.
Relevant pre-what are you trying to say? That there's something in the Bible that's not relevant?
Just given by inspiration of God and his provodal doctrine. Oh, it's relevant pre-what is-what's irrelevant?
It's all relevant preaching. Sermons. I'm serious. It's my personal life right now.
It's like the Bible. My personal life. No, I just preach it, preach it all. Some of it type, some of it will-
Eventually it's all going to be relevant in your life. If it was relevant in the past, it would have been irrelevant today in your life.
You need the whole book or else God wouldn't have given you the whole book.
I'd rather send out the little glossy mailer. I was driving down the freeway yesterday with my son, Solomon, and we looked at a billboard on community church.
Church or don't like church? I said, "You know what, son?" I said, "I don't want to go to that church, son."
You know why, son? Because people that don't like church are bad people, son. They're wicked, they're worldly, they're ungodly.
They'd rather be in a bar, they'd rather be out committing sin and fornication and adultery somewhere.
They don't like the hymns of the faith because they'd rather listen to Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and the Beatles
and they'd rather listen to U2 and Molly Crew and they'd rather listen to Lady Gaga
and they'd rather listen to everything that the world puts out.
I said, "A church that's geared to go to church, that's geared toward people who love God and they love God."
They say, "I was glad they said unto me, 'Let us go unto the house of the Lord.'"
Go to church, son. And so I'm not going to go to that church because I like church, son.
When I was a little kid, I liked church. And when I was a teenager, I liked church.
And I'm an adult now and I like church. And that's church.
There's nowhere besides church.
Rated rock concert.
Listen to rock? Let's go, let's hear a band that actually is an ex-professional band.
I'm trying to copy them.
Some B-rated little Christian contemporary worship band. Worship leader. I don't need that stuff.
Go there. I want to feel like I'm at church. I want to sing "Amazing Grace."
On the solid rock I stand. Blessed assurance. Jesus is mine. Rock of ages. Clap for me.
Sing when I go to church. Guess what? I don't want to sing any of that other stuff anytime.
I won't be at the rock concert because I like church for people who don't like church.
What kind of garbage? Oh, that's how we're going to do it.
You don't like church? You say, "Well, how about people who don't like church?"
And then maybe they'll come to church. No. You've got to go get all the unsafe people to come to church.
You know what? I'm not interested in getting unsafe people to come to church. I'm sorry. I'm not.
I go to church to be around safe people. That's why I like it. That's why I call it the Fellowship of the Saints.
Believers. It's not about bringing in a bunch of unsafe people. It's about going out and getting the unsafe safe.
And then bringing them in safe. Music to attractliness into the church.
I go to church to get away from the world. I go to church to get away from all that.
But they don't want dirty central phoenix and giving the gospel.
They want to sit around in their fancy building and send out cars all day and say hey we'll make church the way you like it so you can come put money in the plate.
Come be a pretty little body in the pew.
That's what church has become today because people is about being served and not about serving others.
They can do nothing that God commands us to do.
To love the upright church.
And that we'll never put a dock ring plate expecting to them when it's 110 degrees outside.
For me, who is out soul winning Monday, everybody who is out soul winning on Tuesday, people who are out soul winning on Wednesday.