Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter by chapter verse by

verse study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck

continues his message, walk worthy of his calling as we pick up in Ephesians chapter one,

verse three. And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

First many years of my ministry, I was always half mad with the people.

Because I wanted to be an evangelist, because that's what the denomination recognized.

I wanted to see souls save because the first thing I had to report on my reports every month

where how many people were saved this month.

It was terrible to put zeros in there.

The hierarchy, the bishops will never recognize you unless you have converts.

And so I had prepared some of the most fantastic evangelistic sermons.

I mean, they could convince the hardest sinner that he ought to commit his life to Jesus Christ.

And I go to church all supercharged with this powerful dynamic message.

I mean, no sinner can reject this message.

And I get to church and I look around and there wouldn't be a sinner in the house.

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