In this Q&A video, Pastor Bill discusses his approach to preaching in a way that has a lasting impact by being certain the word he is delivering is a word from the Lord. Long term effect comes when the power of God transforms people and they then transform society.
when you
when i see you go through hard things
you’re you
when you’re preaching oftentimes you’re
not preaching out of a
out of your pain even though i know
you’re walking through a painful season
right right and and you know you said
years ago
uh uh that you uh you go to the lord
poor
and you come for the people rich yes and
um that’s what’s up
when we talk to the students so we’re
talking about that you know oftentimes
but is that so that’s probably part of
the reason that you’re able to preach
uh even in the midst of these crisis is
in difficulty because
you’re trying to find that kind of that
right place with heaven
and then preach from there in a
transformational moment absolutely
yeah i i didn’t know that early on and
so i would
i would preach out of the season and i
don’t mean christmas and
new years i mean i mean out of the
season of pain or loss or whatever or if
there was
something crazy going on morally in the
nation or whatever and
you know you just go after that stuff
well it doesn’t help anybody it is it
what happened is is i would you know if
i could take an aerial view of the last
year of preaching i’d realize this
had impact this head pick this this
really stunk
you know people may have said amen they
may have liked the message but there was
no lasting impact from this i could feel
i could
taste it in my mouth afterwards that it
had a religious satisfaction
and a sense of addressing things that
needed to be addressed but
no lasting effect and i learned over
time
that almost all the time there is a
place for correction for
bringing real sober words to people
which i i have done on many occasions
but i have to be certain the lord is on
it for right now and it’s not a personal
word
or a word for a team of leaders or
whatever it might be
um it’s got to be a time where the where
the people get a chance to taste the
goodness of the lord
yeah and and that’s that’s really a big
deal
because i i i learned that over time and
finally i
weeded that one part of my approach to
the people i weeded it out completely
and he has to reintroduce it for me to
actually come with a corrective word
you know when when i um i’m talking to
students sometimes i
we use a model of he preaches people’s
core needs and to their felt needs
and um in some ways the film needs this
i’m fighting with my wife or you know
the
there’s there’s the you know america’s
something’s going crazy in the country
or whatever and
and in some ways it feels like it’s some
of the pastors and the teachers
sometimes we’re aware of felt needs like
um i have some information for you that
will help you with that fall need you
know here’s how to communicate in your
marriage or whatever and
then the pastors are like hey that the
sheep need to hear this or need to hear
that but
i’ve seen just in your life with just
just the raising up of the apostolic
office
is that you and chris the prophetic
tend to talk out of the core needs of
people like this i know you’re all
agitated about this
but here’s what we’re up to yeah here’s
like the aerial shot again
yeah and in some ways so it’s
interesting because i thought it was
just your gifting but you’re actually
saying no
i would i would look at it and i started
weeding out
my reactionary messages yep
yeah exactly i stopped i didn’t do it a
lot but i stopped
i stopped preaching for effect
in the sense of you know like you can go
into most indian church right now and
you can preach against
homosexuality or you know
indebtedness of the nation or whatever
you can get a lot of amens but there’s
nobody in there that’s making the
decision to affect the outcome
so all it is is stirring you know
preaching to the choir stirring up the
emotions of people that you’re talking
to
it has has no long-term effect long-term
effect comes
because of encounter with god transform
people
get into the system and transform
society and so that’s
that’s the target that’s what i i work
out of that
blueprint constantly trying to you know
yeah
and i i i don’t i don’t in any way ever
mean to be merciless or not care about
the the problem because when i’m working
one-on-one it’s all about
you know the pain that they’re in and to
try to help but sometimes
people can be brought out of their
you know out of their problem
by finding a higher purpose sometimes
they can just they can
they can actually realize i only have
this because my vision was smaller in
the first place and i just
piddled around with my life you know and
they can find that the word of the lord
draws them into something greater
and it really pulls people out of that
stuff you know so
um and it makes them christ in them is
the hope of glory christ in them is a
solution or an answer that’s it
so they they come into situations with
hope yeah where they didn’t have hope
they come in with some measure of
solution
yeah and love where they didn’t and so
you know i found it to be empowering you
know that you’re helping to bring you’re
tapped into heaven and you’re bringing
it to these earthly situations
yeah yeah that’s that’s exactly it
that’s it and it makes
all the difference in the world an
outcome it the thing that encourages me
most is it makes a huge difference
on how people think about their life
their purpose their significance their
family their generations
their purpose for being you know their
job or
assignment society whatever it might be
everything shifts in that moment because
it well it’s in power people realize i’m
here by god’s choice i’m not just a
number on a
sheet i’m actually an individual that
god chose to be in power to have
impact and uh and there’s a you know one
of the
most basic needs in in all of our lives
is is
affirmation yeah you know i mean it’s a
god-given
hole in us that cries out for
affirmation if you don’t know where to
get it you’re going to get it from the
wrong place
but god gives affirmation
by revealing the joy that he has over us
and the willingness that he has to
impart and empower
purpose to us you know such a you know i
wonder how many christians are really
tapped into the affirmation of god and
that’s not even
yeah yeah we were kind of waiting for
the well done in heaven
the well done good and faithful servant
there’s good point yeah and
then the kind of daily affirmation well
done son that was pretty courageous what
you did there those sorts of things
that’s a good point
if we’re not even wired in to hear that
sort of we are in our prophetic
because we’re constantly looking for the
gold some of the gold that we’re calling
out
is it’s like it’s embryonic in the
person and so we’re trying to
we’re trying to call them into their
destiny other
other times in the prophetic or just in
relationships the affirmation of
relationship
is i is i want to affirm what i see god
doing in that person
so it happens there but i think it could
happen more absolutely you know
absolutely and we find folks have
an affirmation discounting mechanism
it’s like to just swat it down
that ain’t true
yeah nice try you’re just trying to make
me feel good absolutely i’m not buying
it
absolutely yeah yeah that thing has to
be de-wired this thing’s a demonic
machine
yeah that’s right not your friend you
know what somebody in uh
uh one of our staff in second year
yesterday or two tuesday was today’s
thursday tuesday
uh made it made a comment led per time
before i got up to speed
and said uh you know some of you some of
you guys come from countries
that really suffer from what’s referred
to as the tall poppy syndrome
anybody you know develops kind of head
and shoulders above there’s this
thing that took out which we’ve talked
about before i work in a number of
countries i think it’s in every culture
in some
measure no ben franklin’s no no george
washington’s no
martin luther king some countries have
just perfected the art form
you know so um but anyway that the one
who laid in prayer
mentioned said you guys are in
california the state flower in
california
is the golden poppy and it is illegal to
cut them
that’s good and i thought you know what
that works for me that’s just yeah
let us embrace that culture that says
you know you don’t cut any poppies yeah
yeah they’re grown in the wild you can’t
even pick them you’re like you leave
those alone
yeah yeah my kids have picked them
before i want to say that on tape