Is it too hard for the Lord to build faithful word back to church?
You know, because I don't think God can do it.
I don't think God can build this kind of church.
In 2006, you've got to be kidding, this is like dinosaur type stuff, right?
This is ancient history.
You know, I don't believe that.
I think God's going to build this church.
God's going to build it.
What are we doing?
Something cool.
What's not something big?
Something where you go to get your little vitamin up.
I feel so good when I come out of church.
I can go on and say, look, but you're limiting me.
Is it too hard for the Lord?
I have many goals in my life.
I have a goal to keep people saved as I can.
That's why I went to Phoenix, Arizona,
to start a church knocking doors.
That's how I started my church.
Yes, that's how I'm gonna continue
to see God bless that church.
Yes, door-to-door soul winning is what works, 2007.
Yes, preaching the gospel to every creature,
not handing out a flyer,
not just inviting somebody to church,
but opening my mouth, talking about soul winning.
I have other goals in my life.
I have a goal to see a faithful word Baptist church
grow to greater proportions.
I have a goal to raise my family and my children for God.
I have a goal, many goals.
I see the apostle Paul's goal
and I'm sure he had all those same type of goals.
I know he did.
But he had another great goal
that was the driving force all the time.
He said that I may know.
- You say Pastor Anderson,
do you wanna be a successful pastor?
No, I want you to be a successful Christian.
And so I'm gonna be the kind of pastor
that will make you successful in your Christian life.
You say, will that make you a success as a pastor?
No, no, because if I wanna be a success as a pastor,
I'd go, it's fine, you know, like Joel Osteen or something.
And I'd just preach only positive,
and we'd have all kinds of jiving music up here,
and it'd be like a party up here.
Hey, that's how I'd be successful as a pastor.
I could pull up like the guy that's around the corner
in the parking lot here who drives it.
There's a church right in this parking lot.
Pastor drives a Jaguar convertible.
The license plate's God's man.
He's driving a $75,000 car, okay?
That's success.
I don't want success.
I want you to have success.
And sometimes I have to preach something
that makes people get up and walk out.
It makes the revolving door of Faithful Word Baptist Church
just spin as people come and go, come and go, come and go.
Doesn't matter, because you're gonna succeed
if you stay here and listen to the preaching and get it.
And I don't care whether that revolving door spins so fast
that people are coming in, going out, coming in,
going out as fast as they can go.
That doesn't bother me at all.
Hey, as long as you succeed, it doesn't matter if I succeed.
It matters if you succeed.
That's the kind of pastor I wanna be.
That's the kind of leader I wanna be.
I don't want to be like Moses and David. I want to be humble and little in my own sight.
I'm not trying to get my name in some history book somewhere. I'm not trying to be in the
Guinness Book of World Records. I'm not trying to be engraved on a plaque somewhere. One day,
this body's going to turn into dust and one person's going to be exalted. And that day,
the Bible says, when I'm rewarded for anything that I've done for Jesus Christ, Christ alone
is going to be exalted. And that's fine with me. He must increase. I must decrease. Hey,
you must increase. I must decrease. That's humility. Putting other people as more important
than yourself. This is the truth. This is reality. Don't kill the messenger. I'm telling
you the truth. I'm warning you that the people in this city who do not believe on Jesus Christ
are on their way to hell. Whether I say it, whether you say it, whether anybody says it,
it's the truth. People who are not saved, the Bible says, will spend eternity in hell.
Whether you like it, whether I like it or not. And you're watching a football game.
You're watching a basketball game. You're watching a baseball game. You're criticizing
Pastor Anderson. You're criticizing other pastors who are standing up and preaching
the truth because it's too negative, because it hurt my feelings, because it turned off
a visitor. Hey, I'm not here to cry. I'm not here to try to turn on something. I'm not
turning people on for the kingdom. If the Bible turns people off, then they're just
going to have to be turned off at Faithful Word Baptist Church. You know, do you think
people join our church because of the fancy building that we're in? You know, the same
people who say, "Oh, your church is in a strip mall." So what? Those are the same people that
couldn't handle this kind of preaching anyway, so that's true. It's the same people who say,
"Oh, you know, your church is in a strip mall." They're the same people who complained when
our church was in a house when we first started. And it's funny, when we switched from the house
to the strip mall, a bunch of people showed up who hadn't been in a while. "Oh, wow, you're in a
building." They still didn't like the preaching because it's not about the building. And you know,
I've been to some churches that have a palace of a building, but you know what's interesting about
that? When you first walk in, you're impressed. "Wow, this is so nice." But you know, after a few
weeks, it's just a building. I could probably preach about 90-some percent of the Bible and
keep a lot of people happy, right? I mean, if I just took the one percent of the Bible, you know,
there's 31,000 verses in the Bible, right? And I could take those 31,000 verses and I could say,
you know what, let's just take one percent of those 31,000 verses approximately that are in the
Bible. Let's take the 310 most offensive verses and just never touch them. Or maybe, you know what,
I'll just preach 90 percent of the Bible. So I'll take the 3,100, you know, verses that people don't
want to hear and I'm still preaching a lot of Bible, you know, but that's not pleasing to God.
You know, God wants me to preach 100 percent. You want to know what is holding our nation in the balance
side? Oh, it's in the balance. Our nation is in the balance. Our nation is at the crossroads.
Our nation is in the valley of decision and there are very bad things that can happen in this country
in the very near future. That's nothing to do with this election. It has to do with the men
in the pulpits of America, the ones on whom everything depends. It doesn't depend on Barack
Obama at all. It doesn't depend on Mitt Romney at all. It depends everything on the preacher,
and I'm not saying this preacher, I'm saying every preacher. A preacher in this country
who stands up every week with the word of God in their hand and a congregation of people before
them ready to hear what the Lord has spoken. They are holding the **** of our country in their hand.
What are they doing with it? Preaching lame sermons, being afraid of the faces of who's in
the congregation, holding back on key truths because they're not sure how people are going
to react when they hear it. Censoring the sermon, sugarcoating the sermon, not preaching hard on
soul winning, not leading the charge, not knocking doors, not preaching controversial things,
but preaching things that people want to hear, softening the message. Look, there's a reason why
our country is going through the things that it's going through. It's one word, sin.