Think about this for a second, Miss Cassandra's mother passed away yesterday.
The last March, me and my wife went up to Spokane to ordain brother Chad as the
evangelist of our church up there and to have the one-year anniversary. We had
Pastor Anderson there, he preached for us, but Kathy, Cassandra's mom, was not saved
at that time and other people had tried and she just kind of was like uh-uh. But
my wife went to her and just and treated her and was nice to her and
cared for her and gave her the gospel and guess what? Kathy got saved! So today
Kathy is in heaven. She died last night or yesterday afternoon and she died and
you know where she went? Straight to heaven. And look I'm not trying to toot
my wife's wife's horn, but she is a great lady, she's a great woman of God. But
here's the thing, if we never would have started that church in Spokane, Kathy
would have died and went to hell. So think about this, you're like well Pastor
Thompson you're crazy to start all these churches. You know what? I want lights to
be everywhere in the Northwest. I want lights to be everywhere around the world
and hey if we start out in the Northwest we can branch out. We got years, it takes
years to achieve great things. But you know what? I'm ready to do it. I'm
motivated to do it and I'm motivated to start new churches, but I need men to
rise up and lead their families. And I need men who want to go into the
ministry to try, to be motivated, to meet all the qualifications and look it take
like I said it's a it's a complete package. But we can't start new churches
if we don't have anybody to lead them. You know our our system works well. We
get leaders and then they basically after some training they start leading
these churches that on their own. That's what they did in the book of Acts. That's
how it was done. And you got these guys are like well you know if you move here
and then two years later if I like you then maybe I'll send you out. You know
what the nice thing about the satellite church plant model is is that if they
suck I could just go and pull the plug right there. You're done, you're fired. You
know or we can just replace them with somebody else that's better than them.
You know it's like David replaced Saul. Why? Because God found somebody better
than him to lead the children of Israel. But don't tell me it's not biblical. I
mean show me where the pastor gets sent out of a church and I'm not saying it's
not biblical, it is. But what do you see more happening? Paul going from town to
town and city to city out of Jerusalem. What do you see? Church is getting
started in all the locations that he goes to. Like every location he goes to a
new church starts. And I care about people in this world. I care about people
in Spokane, Washington. I care about the people in Hawaii. I care about the people
in Vancouver that have no light in Surrey and greater Vancouver. You know
what? I'm motivated to help them. And you know what? I'm motivated to try to help
the people in England that have been sitting over there with no pastor and no
good church to go to. You know what? And I want to start a church in England. I
want to start Sure Foundation Baptist Church London. Hey, I'm excited about
London. You know what? If they have the right people and they have leadership,
then guess what? Why should I not start a church in London? Why?