You have to understand-- oh, man, I just thought of something else.
We're backing up in the sermonist a little bit.
OK, remember those notes?
I was looking at the notes.
Couldn't believe this.
I'd been at this Bible college for a couple of years.
I was getting towards nearing the end.
And I remember I was shocked when I looked over at that notebook.
You know what it said?
It said to start the church with just Sunday morning only.
I was like, I thought I'm in an independent Baptist college.
I thought this was fundamental.
I thought this was supposed to be just on fire for God.
It was Hyles Anderson College.
And I'm looking out and thinking, like, what?
Did I accidentally get out of the wrong side of the bed
this morning and drive to the wrong college?
This is what they're teaching?
Start with Sunday morning only.
I'm thinking to myself, you know what?
If I were moving to a town, I've been in church all my life.
I got saved when I was six years old.
I grew up-- some people grew up just going on Sunday morning.
I grew up three times a week.
This is what we did.
Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night.
That's what we did.
If I moved to a town and they had some church that just
had Sunday morning only, I wouldn't even
consider the church.
I mean, it was just off my list.
Sunday morning only, I'm wondering to myself, why?
Why only Sunday morning?
Well, they say, well, you know, these new believers, man,
they're only going to want to come once a week.
And you're going to have to control them and prod them
and convince them to come more often.
And he said, after a while, you can institute Wednesday night.
And then after months and months and months,
institute Sunday night.
You know what you're teaching people when you do that?
You're teaching them that Sunday night and Wednesday night
are not important.
They're optional.
So what kind of a dumb thing is this?
You start a church with Sunday morning only,
then you have Wednesday night, then you have Sunday night,
and then a couple of years later you're going to get up and say,
"You need to be in church at all three services."
Hey, you weren't even in church at all three services, buddy.
You didn't even have, you didn't even provide all three services.
Isn't that ridiculous?
I don't understand where these people get this stuff.
They get it from that class.
I'm glad I didn't go to that class.
They didn't get it from the Bible.