Before we get to that question, let me go back to Doka for one second.
Absolutely. Go right ahead.
It kind of ties into something important in the Philippines. In the Philippines,
Baptist churches will ordain anybody. They say, well, hey, if you're called by God, brother,
let's just get this done right now. And they'll ordain you without being married, without having
read the Bible cover to cover one time. The majority of Baptist pastors have not read the
Bible cover to cover one time. And they're not really ashamed to admit it because plenty of
people I know have heard various different ones. It's not just one wild story, but plenty of them
have never read the Bible cover to cover. And Doka is obviously not qualified to be a pastor.
And for someone who's been waiting to be qualified and has wanted this for a long time,
before he was called out as a heretic, before he declared himself to be a heretic with flat earth
and everything and things that got worse, I did not like the guy. He was smug. He was arrogant.
And then when I saw on his website that he had an evangelist, I was trying because I was like,
maybe this guy, I feel guilty about disliking this guy because as far as I know, he's saved
and kind of like this. But I was like, man, I cannot stand this guy. He just seems smug. He
seemed arrogant. And I think that all of us have learned that if someone's going to lift themselves
up before they're ready, they're inevitably probably a bad guy. We've kind of seen that.
And so I want to stop that mentality in the Philippines because a lot of the guys that are
out of church come from that sort of background. And so they realize that they're probably more
ready than all these other phonies that are going out there. But you know what? God established a
system. And if you're going to be a pastor in a church, you're in it for the long haul. That's
30, 40, 50 years. What's another three years to make sure you're actually ready and qualified by
God's standards? And so that's something in the Philippines that I definitely want to fight
against is this idea of just, you know, hey, you know, let's just get ordained, even though we're
not really trained and ready. As for the soul winning in the Philippines... Real quick, I just
want to say, I guess one of your early sermons then are going to be about the qualifications to
pastor coming out of... Yeah. Yeah. I'll definitely have to talk about that. And one thing you
mentioned too, Brother Stuckey, is that you're working your tail to the bone to make sure that
you do it the right way. That when you get qualified, you're biblically qualified based
on what the scriptures say you need to do to be a legitimate pastor. And, you know, how do you feel
when you see these guys circumvent those qualifications to exalt themselves?
Yeah, it definitely makes me mad. And I've talked to other people kind of off the record, people
that are close friends, and it really bugged them and stuff. But then when you really think about
it, it's just like, you know what, if you lift yourself up, you're going to be abased. So I really
shouldn't let it get me down because, you know, the proof is going to be in the pudding eventually,
you know, with people that aren't ready and aren't prepared and stuff like that.
So... But the thing I don't like about it, it's the same thing with shallow soul winning. Shallow
soul winning spreads because there's just something kind of prideful in us where we want to come back
with a number. You know, we hate coming back with not getting anybody saved. And when other people
are kind of doing a bad job, there's like a slight tendency of not doing as thorough of a job.
You know, I've seen that, especially with so many marathons and stuff like that, where all of a
sudden people seem to think, well, you're in a marathon, so let's just kind of, you know, spend
five less minutes at the door. It's like, no, you're going to do things the same way and let
somebody else come back with eight saved. You come back with your one saved or none saved or however
many, you know. And so it's the same thing with people exalting themselves to be pastors, because
when I've seen people that I know are not ready and I know I read the Bible more than them
and prepared more, honestly, in my flesh, yeah, it makes me mad. Like someone like Doka, I was just
thinking, you know, what a joke. Because, yeah, and if you're just looking for a church that will
ordain you, you can find a Baptist church in America that will ordain you. It's not like it's
a struggle. So it's not like you did anything to deserve it at all. And so it definitely does bug
me. But then in the end, it's kind of like God's going to exalt some people. He's going to bring
down others. If you exalt yourself, obviously with salvation, if you exalt yourself and never
humble yourself, you're going to be a base. But even just in our lives, you know, there's a
guarantee that if you lift yourself up, you're going to be brought down. And so in the end,
I don't think it should necessarily bother me. I just hate seeing that mentality spread.
I don't want to see that spread, you know, in the Philippines. You know, I definitely want to do
things the right way. So.