You
Are you tired of lame watered-down preaching
You
Thanks again for joining us this evening
I feel like Ben's really pumped up. He's got a shirt on here first works Baptist Church. He's convincing me
I need to go to Bible College and get that
expensively once-in-a-lifetime
Education but actually 450
I mean inflation these days has made it to the point where that's nothing all right Ben say hello to everyone this evening
How's it going everyone?
Excited to be on the show tonight talking about Bible College really it's Bible College exposed, and we're here with pastor
Bruce Mejia as our guest of course it's March 14th
2023 and
My milk expired today
So I was kind of upset about that
But of course I can always go to the store and get a new one, but other than that
I'm doing great well don't cry over spilled milk. Let's bring on our guest pastor Bruce Mejia. Are you joined here with us?
I'm here. I'm ready to go to that Bible College that um brother brother Benjamin was talking about I mean
I feel like you took that straight out of a Bible College brochure or something
Was perfect online orientation, and yeah, I mean it's a very affordable price of
$450,000 and I think that you know these people out there who want to trash Bible College. They just don't understand the education
They're missing out on oh
Yeah, definitely well obviously we're not nearly the expert you are
Neither me or Ben went to Bible College, but we know that you have some experience in this area
Why don't you give us a little rundown of kind of your experience with Bible College
Yeah, well as soon as I got saved I enrolled into Bible College probably about a month after and
Basically the essentially the reason why I went to Bible College is because the church that I went to
Told me that if I wanted to be in full-time Christian service if I wanted to be a pastor
If I wanted to serve in the ministry full-time
The next step would be to go to Bible College because soon after or right after I got saved
I had the desire to preach and I was under really strong leadership and pastors who are preaching really hard
And so I wanted to do that it created within me a desire to do that
And so I expressed that desire to my leaders, and they basically said oh
You got to go to Bible College and so I enrolled and I went and I was there for about
five years or so and
Then after I graduated from Bible College
I was actually a teacher there for I don't know about two years and then soon thereafter is when I
You know left that church or was let go from that church, but yeah, I was there for about five years and
Honestly, I was really excited in the very beginning
because I thought that everyone who was going to Bible College was there for the right reasons and
I essentially viewed everyone who was there as a
Person who was on fire for God. They loved the Bible
They loved winning souls to Christ that wanted to get involved in full-time Christian service
but I was really naive because that wasn't the case and I just remember being in those classes and and learning about
You know different Bible stories and going through Old Testament survey New Testament survey
And I was still reading through the Bible for the first time
so a lot of these stories were very much new to me and so I was kind of blown away by
a lot of things that I was hearing just you know, the Old Testament stories and the different books and different
characters of the Old Testament and I remember I would express that to my colleagues and just kind of
You know want to talk about those stories after class and just be like wow
You know Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, you know
and I
distinctly remembered that particular story that I was really blown away out that because I never really heard about that and
They were just kind of like yeah, I've already heard that story before and yeah, yeah, whatever and they're just kind of
you know lacks about the Bible and indifferent towards the things of God and
After a couple months I started realizing that everyone who was there wasn't really there for the right reasons. And so
You know, that was basically my first year there
I sort of realized that not everyone wanted to be a pastor or a missionary or be involved in full-time Christian service
They were just kind of there because their mom sent them there their dad sent them there
Or that was just a thing to do after high school is you just go to Bible college
But you know, I had a rude awakening when I went for sure
Now, of course, you know the whole episode is to kind of talk about some of the problems of Bible college
But I assume you know, there were some good things out of it
What are some of the things that you feel like from your experience that were pretty good about it?
Yeah, there is definitely a lot of bad stuff in college and Bible college
But there's obviously a lot of good there as well
and I can't say that I didn't learn any Bible because I did and you know
They taught me a lot of just the history of the Bible
They taught us how to be King James only and they taught us about sowning. They had us memorize scripture and
I think one of the most important things that we learned there was
You know social skills just how to work with people
How to work hard how to just kind of give yourself to the ministry
and so they taught me a lot of discipline they gave me a lot of structure and
you know, that was one thing that I definitely appreciated going to Bible college, but
You know, that's probably the only thing
Yeah, well it seems like to me, you know, I didn't go to Bible college specifically I went to just a regular
State University West Texas A&M University and
It seemed like to me that you kind of got out of college what you put into it that it's a little bit
an ability for you to just do whatever you want and
You know, if you really want to learn a lot, there's no one holding you back
There's a lot of resources that are available to you
but at the same time if you don't really want to learn anything, you're not forced to at all and
To me, I guess I almost would think that some of that's similar in Bible College in the sense that you know
Some students are there reading their Bible a lot studying really paying attention the curriculum working hard on their
Assignments and they could you know going soul winning and different
Activities working hard on preaching or whatever other actual curriculars exist
so you could get a lot out of Bible College, but it's kind of up to you a little bit and
Bible College is not necessarily gonna force you to be like that
It's more kind of it's open. Is that kind of what your experience was?
Yeah, definitely. I mean when I was there I took it very seriously and I
Did not have the attitude towards Bible College that I obviously have now and so when I was there
I worked really hard and I
really believed in that system because I
Thought that it was the right type of system for someone who wants to get involved in full-time Christian service and be a pastor and learn
How to preach and so I put my heart into it and I studied hard I read the Bible a lot and
you know, I learned the doctrine I did my best to pass my exams and
To stay accountable and go soul winning and just do all that
but again just in my first year there, I realized that not everyone shared that same disposition not to say that
There's people in Bible College who didn't have that same attitude
But there are others who definitely didn't the majority I would say of students who went to the college that I went to
did not share that same attitude and they were just kind of there just to you know, please their parents and
You know
They're they're there to kind of do their year or their two years so they can go out and just get a regular secular job
which is nothing wrong with that, but
Just kind of get a secular job and just move on and just please their parents
And so they weren't really in it for for the right reasons
I guess you could say and the people who graduated from Bible College
Who are still serving in the ministry in my opinion?
Survived Bible College or they they came out and were successful in the ministry in spite of Bible College because they went into it with the right
Disposition and the right goals and so I don't know if that answer your question
Yeah, that makes sense and kind of what I'm saying, you know for me
it seems like
The resources to learn and grow spiritually are not
Insulated in Bible College and so much that you couldn't have the same growth or positive learning
Experiences outside of Bible College that the people that do well are the ones that are putting all the extra effort in anyways
And they could do the same thing
apart from Bible College and really we're kind of from my angle or what my perspective is is that Bible College is
Only gonna kind of distract from those things or possibly even put a wet blanket
Kind of similar to that what you've been saying here when you notice other people
Not really putting the same effort in not really caring not sharing your same interest. It could kind of be a
deterrent or or try to
Limit your zeal. It makes me think of how two tribes of the children of Israel
don't really want to enter in the promised land and
Joshua is really upset with them because he's saying you're gonna discourage your brethren
And so when you don't see everybody coming alongside fighting having the same zeal
It can actually discourage the brethren cause them to not want to study as hard not take things as serious
And and obviously iron sharpens iron
So when you're around other people that maybe do something better than you it could cause you to
Do even more or work harder it can provoke you to try harder than you did before
I know in sports, you know, if you play with people that are worse than you you never really get much better
But if you play against people that are a lot better than you it actually challenges you to grow
learn how to have more skill different skill and I know that
Going to faith a word and being around
People like pastor Stephen Anderson and other brethren who are trying to memorize whole sections of the Bible going soul-winding all the time
That always challenged me to do more learn more and to grow more
And I don't know that I would have had the same feeling if I go to an institution like you said Bible College
Where the staff or even a lot of the students aren't that interested don't care as much are
Taking it easy quote unquote
Yeah, I mean I was just thinking I mean just thinking about the fact that
You know going back to that same point
I was really bothered by that and it it kind of made me disillusioned for a little bit
Because of the fact that I felt as though those the students that were there
You know, they had a lot of privileges in the sense of you know, they grew up in church. Their parents are in church
They are very much involved. They've been there for decades at the church and
They don't want to be there and I'm just you know
My parents weren't in church at the time and I was basically the only one there. I'm paying my own school bill
I'm getting myself to Bible College
I'm making sure that I'm kind of holding myself responsible and accountable for my responsibilities in Bible College and
It seemed as though like if it wasn't for their parents or some other authorities that they had, you know
They would be out of there. Whereas me I was thinking to myself, you know
I don't really have anybody provoking me to be here or to go to college. You know, I'm kind of just motivating myself
I'm trying to be a self-starter to be here
so really bothered me when they were really apathy when I when I saw
apathy in the Bible College because it's like I'm actually here for the right reasons and
these students don't seem to even care about the things of God and
You know, obviously there were people who did provoke me to righteousness and to be zealous for the things of God
but there are very far few and in between the majority would mock people like us and
If you even brought up a conversation about the Bible, it would you know be looked down upon
if you
expressed any desire to just kind of go
Above and beyond and soul winning or learning the Bible or memorizing scripture
You were kind of seen as just kind of like a weird person in the Bible College, you know
God forbid that you would want to you know
Do a little more soul winning or read the Bible more in a Bible College and so, you know the the the major
theme of Bible College or should I say the
The narrative that people would push the leaders would push was that the Bible College students were the cream of the crop
But then I would hear that from the pulpit
But then when I see the students, I'm like, you know, I'm not sure
I think there's actually church members that are more on fire and zealous than the actual Bible College students
You know men who are married who have children who are serving God and they love winning souls to Christ
I kind of had more than an affinity with them than I did was a lot of the students in the college and so
You know, that was definitely a wake-up call for me
Well, you know interesting
Back before I even became King James only and I was still going to non the nom church
I actually applied for a seminary because same thing I was told and kind of
Looked up online and stuff
it seemed like you have to go to Bible College if you want to go into the ministry if you want to be on staff at
a church or any of these type of things and so I enrolled or applied for Denver Seminary and
You know, they're not King James only and at the time I don't know that I think I was slowly learning about that
They did seem to at least on their doctoral statement say salvation was by faith alone
And they had a lot of just kind of the cores that doctrines that seemed to be right
But I remember hearing preaching from Pastor Steven Anderson about how you shouldn't go to Bible College
It's a waste of time and you should just train at a local church
And a lot of that kind of resonated with me to where I totally changed and I decided not to pursue
Seminary and I was then trying to be trained in a local church and I ended up joining an old IFB church
And the pastor I approached him about training me to be a pastor and
And he definitely said well, you should go to Bible College and I said, yeah
I don't I don't know that I want to do that. I would rather train locally and he was willing to do it, but
He didn't really have a program and he never really started anything
and so that's why I ended up just moving to faithful word and training with Pastor Anderson there, but
You know, it's it's kind of a similar
At
Least approach from a lot of people where they just really push Bible College on you
And I know brother Ben you went to an old IFB church. Was there ever any pressure to go to Bible College?
Is that something you were thought of doing?
Yeah, I definitely did think about doing it and there was the pressure because they would bring in Bible colleges regularly to basically advertise themselves
to the church and at the time when I first got saved I was going to a secular college and
Back when I was 23 and the thing is I
Did think wow, it would be so great to go to a college. That's you know revolved or at least supposedly
Revolves around scripture where you can learn about the Bible where you can some of the things Pastor
Mahie was talking about memorize scripture learn more about Bible stories, etc. So it seemed appealing to me
At the time and it wasn't until I heard some of the preaching that comes
From our friends from the new IFB and also some of the testimonies I've heard from people who went to Bible College
That I realized I actually
Didn't miss out on anything. Although I felt like I did for a while. I felt like I've been missing out
I felt like I would have liked to go do it
But then I quickly realized after hearing the testimonies of those who went I didn't miss out on anything
Yeah, and you know, I think that's a lot of people
share the same
Share the same
Experience I I know that we have a lot of people in our
Livestream and we're gonna take calls tonight if we have anybody that wants to share a Bible College
Story or example, so if you have like something really crazy that you heard a doctrine or an experience you had
We'd like to hear from you. You can call two three one Baptist
We'll try to bring you on the show for a minute and just get you to share that one experience and we can talk about
it
I wanted to share one quick thing. Go ahead pastor Shelly pastor
Mejia, you guys have midweek Bible studies where you go through a chapter of the Bible expository style and
You do it in great detail
One thing I heard from a friend of mine who went to an old IFB church is in discussion with his pastor
About his preaching style the pastor confided in him and said well, you know what?
I hold things back from a doctrinal perspective and don't necessarily feel like it's
appropriate to preach the meat of the word
Because if people want to attain that they can go to Bible College
They can go to Bible College and get the meat of the word there
What a shame and that's really I wanted to get your guys's reaction to that
I mean as pastors who do regularly preach the meat of the word to your congregations
Isn't it a shame that some pastors feel the need to hold back in that area
Because they feel like if people want to get that they have to pay for it and get shipped off to Bible College
What's your reaction? Yeah, I definitely have heard that multiple times and that was just a common
That was a common thing back at our old church with our old Bible College
and that was that if you wanted to get into systematic doctrine that you would have to go to a Bible College to get that and
You know, they want to keep things on the bottom shelf for the congregation
but if they want to go a little deeper than that you're gonna have to pay to learn deep doctrine and and I didn't really
Understand why at the beginning you know, there's a lot of things that I feel like I didn't question initially
Because we just kind of all went with that and it was just what we what I learned what I thought what I was taught
And so but later on obviously when I heard some preaching especially from Pastor Anderson
I did begin to question those things and I remember thinking a lot of that like why is it that we hold back on?
Systematic doctrine and the funny thing is you mentioned brother Ben that you're at a church where people would come and advertise the Bible College
I was actually one of those people believe it or not. I was on a tour group and I was actually a college recruiter
I was like one of my jobs when I was working at the college there and my job was to get
Recruitments for Bible College and in fact
One of my church members who's my song leader brother Marco Sanchez. I actually recruited him to Bible College
So he left his church and city and he went he ended up moving to Long Beach
And you know, he became a part of the Bible College and he ended up going to college there until he was kicked out
For coming to visit our church when we started when we were back when we were a faithful or Baptist Church
But we used to recruit people all the time and I remember
Going to a particular church
Where we were recruiting
Students and I remember the pastor preaching and he was going verse by verse on first and second Timothy
he was in first Timothy at the time and I remember thinking to myself like
I've never heard anything like this. I thought this is something you only do in Bible College and
You know
his is like an unorthodox kind of way of doing it because he was going verse by verse and he was kind of like
Asking for for answers and so the congregation would like answer out
So obviously, you know that we didn't agree with that
But you know, unfortunately or should I say fortunately a lot of the church church members knew the answers
To what he was asking regarding systematic doctrine, which shows that he was teaching his people
You know and and they were actually taking it in and I remember coming back feeling a little discontent thinking to myself
You know, why don't we do this at our church? And and then it was one of those reminders
well, that's what you get in Bible College and so and I remember and I even remember a church member coming up to me and
Saying like hey, you know, I have a full-time job. I have a family. I don't think it's fair that
You know, why do I why do we have to pay to go learn the book of Hebrews in Bible College?
Why can't we get it in church and I honestly didn't even have an answer
Because I never really thought about that, but it's true. I mean, it's it's in my opinion. Obviously, it's wrong
It's wrong to charge to teach the Bible period learn the Bible let alone, you know
Just kind of hold back and keep key doctrines or systematic teachings from the church
Because that's that's reserved for the cream of the crop
which ends up being a group of people who don't even want to learn it to begin with so
Well, I don't have any experience as far as actually being in a church where there's this big discrepancy from what's being taught in
The Bible College or at church, but you're just trying to think about it biblically, you know
the Apostle Paul talks about how he held back nothing and
In fact pretty much every epistle kind of says like to be read in the church
Like it doesn't say just for the Bible college students enrolled at the church
It's like to be read in front of the men women and children
So to me it almost seems unbiblical if you're not going to every single one of these passages and every single one of these instructions
To me the Bible is really clear that we should be teaching everybody the whole counsel of God and that we shouldn't be holding anything
Back, so it really just to me is almost in the face of Scripture that people would even do such a thing and
you know I it to me though it
It again my viewpoint is that Bible College is more about
money and if you don't have this gimmick of
Well, you're only gonna get this lesson if you come to Bible College then
You know that might actually entice someone to pay whereas if you say you're gonna get all the same instruction all in same information
Then it kind of is like well, why do I go and it's like exactly why why would you go?
You know I didn't go to a Bible college, but I went to just a regular University
I got a management degree, and I remember I wanted to change careers at one point and get a software degree
And I talked to somebody that was in the software industry, and he said oh don't go to college
It's a waste your time. They won't even teach you how to be a developer. You're gonna use
archaic and outdated
Programming languages they're not gonna really teach you very much
You could just learn on the job and get really far ahead, and I never
Got a software degree. I don't have really any
Training formally as far as software, but I've had a job for several years. I've had really high positions
I've been a senior developer and
You know never has it even been a question of whether or not I had a degree or if it mattered
They don't even care, but it does seem like in in our world, and you know I'm not you pastor me here
So I don't have a Bible college degree, but a lot of people ask me well
Where'd you go to college or where'd you get a seminary degree?
And you know I just say like I just trained a local church
And I think a lot of people look down on me for being like that
But I I would venture to believe that most of my church
Knows the Bible better than a lot of these Bible college students, so it's kind of
What does it matter do I need letters of commendation, or you know?
What's the what did I really miss out on I don't know, but yeah, I agree 100% I mean the Bible says
That you know
apostles and pastors and teachers and evangelists are given to us for
the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ and
Then it says that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine
By the sleight of men and cutting craft in this whereby they lie in wait to deceive so what?
Ephesians 4 is basically telling us is that if we want to mature in the Lord and in our knowledge of the Bible
So that we're not spiritually children anymore and become spiritually mature and our understanding of Scripture
We need to be in church
And if we need to be in church that the implication there is that there is a leader there
Who's preaching the Word of God who's maturing us through the Bible through preaching through the deep things of God?
And so you know there's no mention of a college Bible college in in in the scriptures
Whenever when in reference to teaching God's people or helping them to mature
Being an extension of the ministry as many people put it when it comes to Bible college
You know it says that we were we learned these things in church, and so and you're right. I mean I think of my church members
Many of them can run circles around many of the Bible college students
I mean I remember being in college and
my first year and
kind of going I don't know what it was something sparked my curiosity and
I started going up to different students. Just asking him like why are you a Baptist?
Or why are you a fundamental Baptist?
Do you know and I wasn't doing it in a just to kind of like you know put them on the spot?
I genuinely wanted to I wasn't trying to troll them I
Genuinely wanted to know why they thought that they were a Baptist
and I think it was also because I was trying to figure out why I was a Baptist and
so
Probably one out of the 15 students that I asked that question to probably gave me a solid answer the other ones couldn't and
The other ones kind of brushed me off, or they just kind of like ah you know. Why are you asking that?
That's not important. You're asking a stupid question or whatever and
So, but when I would ask some of the church members they actually knew
Some of the men in the church actually knew why they were fundamental Baptist
And so it's crazy to see that
Contrast there between those who are supposed to be learning the deep things of God through Bible college and those who are using the God-given
Institution which is the church to learn it yeah, and you know even the church
I went to it seemed like the people didn't even know why they were King James only
Whereas some people in the church were and they knew why but it's like that should be taught to the whole church
Why would you want your church to not be solid on doctrine because that's that's all reason
I believe people should be going to our church is because they're choosing it not just because their parents drug them there or
Tradition or it's five minutes from their house, but you want people to choose your church, and you know that's one thing
I love about the church that I get to pastor is that it's very clear the people coming to my church
Are choosing to come to my church?
It's not just out of convenience or it's close to their house or anything like that
it's it's rather because they know what they believe and they want to find a church that aligns with what the Bible says and
Of course that should be the main motive act motive
Motivating factor, and I think that because we have the truth on our side
We shouldn't be afraid of teaching everybody all the truth because that's what's gonna keep them grounded in the faith
That's gonna keep them steadfast and doing the first works. You know I mean you need a lot of that
doctrine to be motivated to do the right things, but of course you know I've heard and
There's an even way worse Bible colleges out there than the one you went to I mean the one you went to is probably
Great in comparison to 99% of Bible colleges, but even where you were going was there any kind of
doctrines or
Heresies or anything that you were like whoa that's not in the Bible was there something that kind of threw you off while you were
in the school
Well our college like most colleges are dispensational they do
adhere to
You know a dispensational view not hyper dispensational, but very much dispensational in the sense that they're pretty trib
They believe that the Jews are God's chosen people so things of that nature
But as far as discrepancies in regards to salvation
I never heard anything they're very much King James only and even the church that I went to was King James only and
there were a lot of right doctrines at the college and
honestly, I credit that to the fact that the college was very much tied into and
Overseen by the pastor, so it's not like the college was like off campus
Somewhere else run by another leader like the pastor of the church oversaw the college is very much involved
He taught there he preached there, and so he kind of kept a short leash on the college there
And I remember one particular time
a
pastor was was invited or
Evangelist or something you may have heard of him. I don't know
I'm not sure if you have but his name is they call him Bible Doug and
No, I haven't game and he was he's very he putting himself forth as like King James only and he was really big in old
IFB type churches or at least he was making a big splash at that time and
He's King James only so obviously he came under the guise of being King James only
So we liked them, and we thought you know have him come and teach
You know a couple hours of just the Bible or just different things, but then he started mentioning some things
You know he was teaching through the Gospels, and he started implying that people were saved differently in different dispensations
And we're I remember my reaction was like whoa and and my pastor never really had got he never got up and preached against
Dispensationalism or hyper dispensationalism, but he did teach the right way of salvation and
The fact that it was always the same so by default. I knew that whatever this guy was saying was just wrong and
I remember like I raised my hand, and I'm like are you saying that people were saved differently throughout the ages because we believed
In ages at that time obviously because we're yeah, we were pretty trip, and he's just like well
I'm just saying I believe the Bible and
I'm thinking to myself well, then you're implying that you know you do believe that
so I was kind of floored when he said that and
I had a good relationship with my pastor
And he always kind of kept the office door open for me if I wanted to talk to him
And I went to go talk to him and I said hey
This guy's saying that you can be saved differently throughout different ages, and I don't know if that's biblical
I don't think that's biblical that doesn't sound right he's saying where people were saved by the sacrifices in the Old Testament
And and then my pastor was like whoa well
This is the last time he's ever gonna come you know and he's like that's called hyper dispensationalism, and he said we're dispensationalist
but we're not hyper dispensationalism because hyper dispensationalist have
They teach a false doctrine that people were saying differently
And so I really my respect for my pastor grew even more because of it because he just said he's never coming back
We're not gonna sell his books. You know there. They had a bookstore. He's like we're not gonna sell his books
He's never coming back, and he even canceled the future engagement with another pastor
Because he ended up finding out that that guy was a hyper dispensationalist as well
So as far as those type of discrepancies. You know we didn't have anything that crazy during
My pastor's
Time there, but when he got sick, and he was no longer the pastor there
there were different individuals that came and were teaching false doctrine and
They particularly I remember in one instance
I was just going over this one of my church members earlier this week that they had a a
Missionary who was a missionary in Africa for like 30 40 years or something and he was like 130 years old or something like that
You know some crazy age, but this guy was not King James only
he was
major Zionist and
He taught some really weird doctrines, and I remember that they hired him to teach a class on missions
But the entire class ended up being a class on Zionism, so he never even went through
what he did on the mission field or
The worst that he did he spent the majority of time talking about why the Jews were God's chosen people
And why replacement theology is wrong and so you know a lot of that started coming in
And I remember some of the students just kind of being like this is kind of weird. You know did he even go to Israel I?
Mean probably not
I mean if you're a missionary to Israel, maybe that makes sense. I don't even know
He was he was big on it though like and and one thing that kind of
Freaked me out was the fact that he said he was using the King James and
He was like, but I prefer and he said some other version, and I was like what you know what I mean like
And I couldn't believe the words that were coming out of his mouth, and I remember myself like this is not good
Why are we having this guy teach here if he doesn't even believe in the King James Bible right?
But things like that were tolerated unfortunately, and they were permitted they were tolerated they weren't corrected and
Little by little you can see you know that the college was was was going south doctrinally
Later on because of the fact that when you tolerate things like that
They're not corrected then it just gives way for more false doctrine, and then we you know we have students who are coming from different churches
Who were not King James only you know they were using a new King James, and I remember one particular instance where?
the teacher was having
The students read a passage. He was teaching. I don't know a particular passage, and he was reading out of that passage
He called on this particular student, and he just sounded weird
You know it's just like and the student the teacher stopped him, which is like all right
We're moving on to someone else
And he kind of picked someone else
And it was just like the guys reading out of a new King James Bible can can we talk to him about this?
Yeah, and he was permitted to stay for a while, and you know eventually they talked to him
And he ended up getting a King James, but you know it wasn't by conviction
That's because he was at the Bible College where they required a King James Bible
And so I saw a lot of that stuff and when I was there it wasn't that wasn't really a common thing
But later on definitely
You know people the college I would say took a began to take a soft stance on King James only ism soul-waning
Things of that nature that's a shame and you had mentioned earlier
About one of your church members who kind of got thrown out of the college
I guess for attending your church, so
Do you have I feel like you you and I've talked about this in the past?
But you've had some experiences where Bible colleges are kind of
Disavoweling the quote new IFB or pastor Bruce, Mahia is so scary. You don't want to rub shoulders with this guy
I
What kind of experiences have you had where Bible colleges are basically just swearing off the new IP saying?
Have nothing to do with them, or we'll kick you out or you know what what can you share on that?
well
before I say anything about that let me just say is that there's a lot of Bible college students that actually like the new IP and
There's actually and I'm just not talking about my old college, but there's other colleges
where they have new IP listeners and
So and I would think I would say it's probably the students that are there for the right reasons in the sense of they want
To learn the Bible they want to get involved in full-time Christian service, and they love the truth
And you know we're in the age of the internet. We're you know
YouTube and all these things and so
They hear about something and then they tune into the preaching and I've had many students who go to Bible college
Tell me that they listen to my sermons even though they're in North Valley Baptist
North our Golden State Baptist College West Coast Baptist College
You know that there's people there that listen to the new IFB and so
But it's it's obviously not the students that are against us the leaders the leaders don't like
the students to be exposed to this type of preaching
Because it messes with their money. You know you know because then they could potentially get out they might hear a sermon on
You know how Bible College is worthless, and they might leave Bible College and actually get into a leather-lung
You know Bible believing King James only soul wanting Church and and get training there
But as of recently I haven't really heard much as far as you know
Colleges speaking out against the new IFB when I was a but when I was a Bible college teacher
I heard a lot of them, and you know mainly it was obviously against Pastor Anderson and
You know there's meetings at the college where the leader would get up and say this is not a Steven Anderson Church
This is not a new IFB College. This is not a Steven Anderson College
We do not believe the same and so stop spreading that nonsense
and you know they would they would just rip on the new IFB in that in that way and
You know they obviously felt threatened by Pastor Anderson. They felt threatened by the new IFB
And I think it's because of the fact that young people were gravitating towards
new IFB preaching and so they feared that they would become radicalized or something and
start believing the Jews are not God's chosen people and
you know start hating sodomites, and you know just become these overly zealous type Christians and
and end up stirring the pot at the college and so
You know that was really big when I was there
and I just remember multiple meetings and staff meetings where they would go over that and just kind of
Just do a lot of damage control where they're just like don't listen to them
You can't listen to this preaching you can't do this
you don't go and you know obviously that's one of the reasons that I was let go is because of that and
So the guy who got kicked out of my head of the college there
You know he it was he came to Faith Board Baptist Church, Los Angeles
when Pastor Anderson was preaching he wanted to come here and preach and he came and
he posted on his Instagram a picture with Pastor Anderson and
Soon thereafter they're like you got to go so they booted him out, and I just I don't know
I don't remember what it was. I don't know if it was like a Sunday night or a Thursday night
I was like preaching and he just comes walking into the church and
And
You know later on we're like hey, what's going on? He's just like I got kicked out
you know he's just I they didn't do not they kicked me out for coming to this church and
So you know we we all high-fived him and congratulated him
Probably the best thing that ever happened to him
Yeah
Yeah, cuz he ended up. I mean he ended up being here, and he he's now he's married. He has a son
He has a family he's involved here. I mean I'm sure he's learned a lot more
He can enjoy the Bible more. I mean I could see why they're threatened. I mean if I lived in LA
And I had a Bible college
I would be afraid of anybody learning about Pastor Mejia because go learn way more from him way cooler Church
I mean they got the merch too. I mean you know that's the one thing about college
They have the merch but Pastor Mejia has cooler merch
So you know you got to go to first works Baptist Church if you're anywhere near LA
Ben did you have anybody demonize the new I have beat you while you're going to church or interested in Bible college or anything do you?
Have any experience like that yeah absolutely even in
Jacksonville Florida at an old IFP church pastored by somebody who now by the way is
Has decided to advance and progress away from the King James Bibles no longer King James only that's a whole different topic
Okay, I think you're talking about Adam Fannin
He's a loser yeah, he's that's a totally different story there, too. He should go to Bible college
Yeah, I agree with that, but no they were I mean I had people come up to me and just be like hey
Have you heard of this preacher from Arizona? He's a really
Extreme guy, and he says that sodomites should receive capital punishment
And he's super extreme I think his name is like Anderson something so people would come up to me with that kind of
Rhetoric and I witnessed church leadership
Just attack pastor Anderson mercilessly. Oh if this guy were in our church. We'd kick him out, and I hate him
He's a complete just loser. They would attack him like I said showing no mercy whatsoever and here's the thing as a
Naive baby Christian, I'm walking in here, and I'm thinking oh, this is an independent fundamental Baptist Church
I bet they're all like faithful word. They're all friends
They all like pastor Anderson, so I walk in and a few weeks later
When I found out how much they hated him
My stomach kind of sunk because I was like oh, man
That's such a bummer because I kind of I mean I liked other aspects of the church
But yeah the leadership and other church members would
Confide in me quote-unquote that pastor Anderson was really horrible guy, and so they were
Of course very upset with me when I left to go to steadfast
Well, you know when it looks when we look at Bible College as a whole you know
There's definitely kind of a King James only
independent fundamental Baptist
Realm where there's some Bible colleges and things like that, but as a whole most of them are not King James only most of them
are not
Baptists even necessarily a lot of crazy things are going on in these places
and you would think that those would be the most liberal but
even amongst independent fundamental Baptist it seems like they're going crazy too, and I want to play a clip of
John getch, and it's something that I had made a long time ago
but it's he's I believe the president of
West Coast Baptist College and
That church there is Lancaster Baptist Church pastored by Paul Chapel and John getch
You can go on YouTube right now and find the sermon on their
YouTube channel that we're gonna play a clip from so it's not like this guy is recanted or change his opinion
But the guy has just become crazy. I mean
Not even just like liberal like extreme, and I don't understand exactly the motivation here
I you know I
think that some of these individuals are just feeling the pressure to
Increase enrollment or to appease certain people and so maybe they just money is just too big of a factor
And they just kind of accept some liberal stuff
But I also wonder if some of these people are just wicked some of them are just super evil
You know from your perspective pastor me here. I know that you're pretty close over there to Lancaster Baptist Church. Do you think these guys are?
I'm just coming from like they're just like a wicked element, or do you think it's just a lot of pressure to kind of
Maintain the status quo and keep enrollment up and just kind of get the money flowing I
Think it's both we went to we would go to Lancaster Baptist Church every year for their fine arts competition
And we met a lot of their leaders and and kind of fellowship with their students
And I feel like I met both types where there was just really these watered-down
soft-soaked type of Christians who were believers, but they just kind of took a took a soft stance on a lot of the
controversial issues of the day
But then you'd have these other individuals, or it's just like I don't know about this person red flags
They you know they teach repent of your sins
type gospel they
Don't seem very sincere. They just they seem like they're really bad people you get the you get the false prophet vibe from them and
You know when you have a church that big and a college that big a lot of infiltrators can easily make their way
within that institution
You know because of the fact that the leaders who are saved and the leaders who?
You know they believe the Bible. They're still taking a soft stance and so they often tolerate it and
Allow that stuff into the church, and they won't fight against it
and so in my experience when it comes to these colleges like Golden State and West Coast Baptist colleges you have a mixture of
both and
Unfortunately the saved are often the ones who defend the the wicked ones
as seen with Mike Zachary for example and so
Yeah, well
We're about to switch over to a rumble only stream, and so I just wanted to prepare you guys
We're gonna play a clip here and
Unfortunately, it's got a little bit of YouTube censorship, but once we get off of stupid ju-tube. I mean YouTube
We'll be able to say whatever we want and as the topic will get a little bit spicier
It's probably very much needed, but I want to play this quick clip and we'll talk about it for a second
But we're gonna be switching over to you to rumble. I'll put the link in the description as well
But let's go ahead and play the clip
Every human being regardless of their ethnic background their education their financial status their religious beliefs and
sexual orientation
Deserves to be treated with respect and dignity
Let me say it again
Every person on this planet
regardless of their sexual orientation
deserves respect and dignity
And it has this guy John getch okay independent fundamental Baptist, and here's what he said he said
every person on this earth
deserves respect and dignity
regardless of their sexual orientation
This is in a Baptist Church in the house
Of God
Be that bold
Can you stand up behind your pulpit as a man of God and not think God's gonna strike you dead
To stand up and talk about people sexual orientation
You're wicked
How can you get behind the sacred death have some respect for the house of God for God's word for God
Does it talk about a sexual orientation?
It talked about sodomites
Filthy dogs pile fruit be damnation and hell
Because you know what if he's not
Then why is he so soft and interested in defending yeah
I
Was a clip a little while ago, and
Kind of lost
Yeah, we're gonna be going to rumble here
just a few minutes so we can talk about this a little bit more in detail, but
Isn't that just insane?
Pastor me here to see a fun. I mean this isn't this isn't like a liberal University
This is a fundamental Baptist
University our caught Bible College president and at a fundamental Baptist Church
Preaching this kind of stuff. I mean I know you're aware of this clip
But I mean what what in the world?
Yeah, I mean the guy is a complete false prophet the guy is a complete fag-loving idiot because of the fact that you know any
Baptist preacher evangelist who gets up and says something like that
Obviously you know pastor Anderson would say how can be so bold it's because of the fact that the guy is not even safe
the guy obviously sincerely feels his way about sodomites and
So you know I just don't know that like a safe person can just get up and say something like that
you know what I mean right and
Obviously John gets is not safe because he teaches a repent of your sins gospel
But you know that definitely is the icing on the cake when it comes to that you can see that the guy is obviously
He obviously disregards the Bible does not respect
He respects people more than he respects the Word of God he respects people's sexual orientation
More than he respects Leviticus 2013 and so the guy's a complete joke, and I hope you die soon
Well tell us how you really yeah, we need to play the uncensored clip so you guys have less than 60 seconds
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