Matthew Stuckey here from Verity Baptist Church Manila and Verity Baptist Church Pampanga.
I just want to make a quick video just letting people know today is a 25 year anniversary
of the passing of Curtis Hudson.
And Curtis Hudson was my personal favorite preacher of the 20th century.
And you know I actually wasn't even saved when he actually passed away and he went home
to heaven.
But for those of you that aren't really familiar with Curtis Hudson, he was a very strong defender
in terms of salvation.
You know he didn't hold back any punches.
His sermon, Another Gospel, that I heard a long time ago, probably 14 years ago, really
kind of changed my life and changed my understanding as I went to a church that was teaching a
Calvinist repentance of sins message.
And you know that sermon really helped me realize how big of a heresy you know it was.
Lordship, salvation, and repentance of sins.
And from that moment I realized this is not something we can just agree to disagree on.
And so life changing sermon for me.
I'd been saved for maybe you know two years when I heard that sermon and his awesome sermon.
And he was a real strong defender on not just salvation but he also at the end of his life
was a really strong defender on the King James Bible and things such as that.
And really really great Christian.
Loved soul winning.
Went soul winning all the time.
And so you know kind of in honor of him we're kind of I'm going to be preaching kind of
two sermons on Sunday to kind of remember him so to speak.
And one of the sermons is going to be on soul winning and the other sermon is going to be
on bringing people to church.
And we're kind of using this this event.
It's a great timing for us in terms of our spring program leading up to Easter over the
next five or six weeks to try to bring visitors to church.
And we're having a competition at our church and we're breaking it down by teams.
We have three different teams depending on where your your name is your last name in
the alphabet.
So we're dividing into three different teams and whichever team brings the most visitors
to church leading up until our Easter service is going to win you know and get a reward.
And I went to a Baptist church that did this sort of competition but they did it with Sunday
school classes.
Now obviously as a new IFB church like we don't have Sunday school classes.
You know we don't operate a church in that way.
But I do remember it being a very fun competition and very helpful.
And we were all motivated everybody we got say we're trying to get their information
trying to contact them trying to bring them to church.
And it was really helpful to bring new visitors to church.
It was a lot of fun and we're kind of trying to bring that excitement here in the Philippines
and really trying to just work as a team.
And we're going to do all of our pairing with people that are on the same team.
So that way as opposed to people on different teams pairing up for soul winning on Sundays
and things such as that.
So it's real exciting time.
But I just want to make this video.
You know for some of you maybe that you're not familiar with who Curtis Hudson is.
There are some great preachers in the old IFB and the old IFB for the most part has
really changed especially over these last you know 10 years I've seen a major change
just since the time I've been saved and been in IFB.
But Curtis Hudson was definitely one of the one of the really solid strong defenders on
salvation love soul winning preached hard.
And you know I just wanted to mention this video because he had a bigger impact on me
than any old IFB preacher that there is out there.
You know his sermon another gospel really kind of changed my life and helped me get
a better understanding of salvation and just the heresy of the other side.
So anyways I want to make this video to kind of remember him and thank you and God bless.