Cool. So we're here with Pastor Anderson. Any words you have to say about the church here?
Yeah, I mean I love it. I love the signage outside. Just, it's bold. Like you're driving down the road just
Faithful, we're in Baptist Church. Independent, fundamental.
Yeah. I just wish we had a sign like that in Tempe. Looks great. The mural looks great.
So you preached a pretty hot sermon on rap today. Okay. You hit some points on Dr. Dre.
Did I hit on some of your music? No, I'm just kidding.
When you hit on Vanilla Ice, that was kind of hurtful right there. Does anybody even know who Vanilla Ice is?
Am I the only one with Ice Ice? Yeah, somebody from the congregation pulled that out.
That was nice stuff. It was a gimmick. Yeah, yeah. But the thing is, you're the only one who lacks them.
The only one who lacks them is you remember. Oh, I remember. Of course, yeah.
That's pretty good. You remember the words? Ice Ice. That's all I remember.
I'm sure he mentioned his own name a few times, right? Yeah, that's perfect right there.
Isn't that a big theme in rap music, right? That self glorifying? Yeah.
I just wanted to get a video here of Pastor Ed. So you guys know that we do know each other.
It's almost something that we never see you guys actually make an announcement about the church.
But it's never at the same time. So this isn't photoshopped or anything like that.
We can actually see it. And the beard is gone, but it's still me, I promise.
I've had so many comments here. Where's Bruce? Where's Bruce?
You know, Pastor McCraney or no, Pastor McMurtry said that was a great sermon.
What would you do with Bruce? I feel like it's still safe. So thank you for coming.
Yeah, my pleasure. Pitching that hot sermon was awesome. We needed it in the Los Angeles area because rap is big here.
And a lot of people listen to yours truly. So you stepped on my toes today.
We've all down. Even white people. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. The funny thing.
When you mentioned that NWA's concerts were filled with the only white people.
Yeah, back in the day. And the reason for that was because they're the only ones who could afford the tickets.
It's like 50, 60, 70. Yeah, so the majority of the people who went to those concerts were white people.
Even the crowd was like...
So it was good. I like that sermon. I talked a little bit about it on Sunday, but he hit it more thoroughly today.
Just hitting that rap thing. Here's the thing about sermons. We need to talk about everything.
We need to hit on every single subject. And the Bible's relevant for everything.
Oh yeah. And there's so many subjects that the old IAB just never even touches.
Well, not even just because they're afraid. Just because they get stuck on certain things.
Like, they'll preach against Catholicism a lot. But they'll never preach against the Orthodox Church.
Even though it has hundreds of millions of people and it's a big deal.
They don't preach against the Hindus, the Buddhists.
So we need to preach against everything. All the sins, all the false religions.
And it goes to show that we need to be knowledgeable about a lot of the things that are going on in the world.
Because maybe it's not something that we actually know about personally.
But other people actually know about these things. And they need to know what the Bible actually says.
I think that's the great thing about our movement is that we try to hit on as much as we possibly can.
Because the Bible's relevant to everything. So we hit on it.
Plus, not only are we preaching to the church, we're also trying to bring in new people too.
And the Internet's a great tool to reach out to millions of people.
And by preaching about other subjects and branching out into other topics, it brings in a whole new audience.
You know, because you're reaching the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Orthodox.
And when you preach against the hip-hop culture, there are a lot of people in the church that are going to benefit from that.
Because they have been caught up in that. They used to be in it.
And I guarantee you, I saw some people that have those hours and need to get rid of them.
The funny thing is that I think they recently just came out with a NWA movement.
Yeah, they did actually.
That's relevant to them.
But then, not only that though, but then you take that sermon and you put it online.
And it's the only sermon you're going to find online preaching against graffiti and stuff.
Because I searched YouTube this afternoon. I was trying to find preaching against graffiti and I couldn't find it.
So I'm going to upload a little video clip called Preaching Against Graffiti.
Amen.
And it's going to be from tonight's sermon.
That's awesome.
Well, you heard it here. I think that's probably the first sermon that I've heard on hip-hop.
First ever.
So you heard it here first at Bayport Baptist Church in Los Angeles by Pastor Anderson. It was great.
And next week he's going to preach on country music.
We'll see how that goes.
God bless and have a great day.
Amen.