In this Q&A video, Pastor Bill shares how his dad was a major influence in his life. Teaching him to prioritize the presence of God and the concept of the priesthood of the believer.
who has most influenced you and why
it could be one or two or three years
okay it’s probably my dad
my dad would be the the one who’s
influenced the most
it’d be for all the right you know the
logical reasons i mean he
he for us really helped us pioneer this
whole thing of the priority of the
presence and
what it was to minister to god he was
the one who introduced to me the whole
concept of of uh the priesthood of the
believer which basically says it’s not
us and them it’s
yeah you know that approach to life was
huge do you know where did he
who influenced him as far as the
priority of the presence well heyford
was certainly
one yeah one very key individual jack
hayford
and church on the way and that whole
movement the foursquare
you know that was a real big part of our
of our uh of our life
so i know there was influence there i
always wondered too like when
because i was raised with hymns a little
bit more and i i i always love it when
we dig up him in our own worship time as
well but
some of the old hymns too really did
talk about the presence of the lord like
he walks with me and talks with me and
he tells me i’m his own exactly the joy
we share is we tarry there
you know remember being a little kid
yeah feel the power on that right now
but
but the uh it seems like it was built in
but maybe not highlighted as much or so
it was in our it was on our inner some
of our hymns
but maybe not on our experience as much
or
yeah they’re jack hayford talks about
where he heard about the priesthood of
the believer
first to god to the church to the world
he heard it from an assembly of god
teacher but but while it was
understood it was never lived at the
same level that he took it to
and then suddenly people from
the movement that declared it had to
learn it from someone who actually
heard it and got it you know that’s a
fair example
um so it was it was something that he
he talks about that he heard in this
event
and it was there as a concept but it
wasn’t really
lived out and i think all of us we we do
that we see a truth and we think we know
it
yeah and then five years later the lord
brings it back to us and we realize
ah i didn’t know it at all yeah and uh
and that’s that’s what i think is
happening
is uh and there’s probably been
generations that really
understood the value of the presence
more than maybe
uh some of our forefathers i don’t know
i don’t know but i know from certain
individuals did yeah yeah
i know for me you know when my dad began
to make that
move here that was huge you know real
real big deal there’s
several others that had a great
influence on so i said that so be your
dad and obviously jack hayford because
you mentioned in that story
really was the spark plug that really
turned my life around the all-or-nothing
is he he’s a christian he’s your age
right is he yeah a little older than
that
yeah yeah but he was so he was somebody
you could run with that
yeah he just he just preached an
all-or-nothing gospel i mean there’s
just no compromise there’s no wiggle
room
he drew a line in his head and uh
and i i listened for quite a while yeah
for months on end i finally said all
right that’s that’s
that’s me i’m willing to take the plunge
and it’s never been
you know never been two minutes of
renegotiation since then it was all or
nothing you know but you say you
listened for quite a while was that was
he speaking at church yeah yeah
was he talking at the youth group no my
dad would bring him up he was speaking
fairly
coming from chico and yeah yeah yeah
then yeah
and it was it was wonderful i’d come to
every meeting but i
i was um i was an observer you know
and then then there came the time where
i realized
you’ve observed long enough it’s no
longer an option to watch