Bible college

And just before I went to become a part of that, it was the month of August.

We had a youth camp, and the vice president of Southwestern Assemblies of God Bible College was named George Brazel.

I'd never heard such a funny preacher before.

He opened up every night at the youth camp telling a joke.

I didn't want to accept the free... scholarship program.

We really didn't have money to go to Bible school.

But I decided I wanted to go to Southwestern Assemblies of God Bible College in a little town outside of Dallas called Waxahachie.

It's an Indian name, I think.

It was a magnanimous gesture, and I have always respected that.

And I know that their students have, I'm not sure about Ambassador Bible College, oh yeah, Ambassador Bible College, I believe that there have been a number there, and to summer camps that their students have come, and we've always maintained a good relationship.

I feel like in some ways there's a kind of a movement, a grassroots movement in the churches to, hey, let's try to talk at least, start with talking.

Talk

But on July 22, 2021, I was sitting in my office and I had then started working for Summit International School of Ministry.

I was going to start teaching at the Bible College that fall.

And I'm sitting in my office.

It's about 10 a.m. And I get a phone call and it's my wife on the other end of the line and she's sobbing uncontrollably.

And we started working through it, and I started challenging a lot of things Christians say, a lot of their assumptions.

Then we got an email from a listener that was a very detailed email we started working through it I don't think we finished all of it and I started pushing back on some of its claims then I think we kind of got distracted and started talking about the doctrine of imputation it's been all over the place so here's what we're going to do we're going to get back to the doctrine of inspiration and what we're going to ultimately do is we're going to review a sermon Now, the sermon we're going to review comes from, remember I told everyone about Independent Baptist Institute, and you can listen to all their teachings on Sermon Audio, all right? If you look up Foundation Baptist Church, you'll find all of their teaching, which is a part of their Bible Institute.

So they have a course on the doctrine of the Bible, and one of the lessons is on understanding inspiration.

I'm like, okay, perfect.

And so what happened is many of them then pulled their churches out of the denominations that were supporting these schools or these schools were a part of that denomination.

They set up independent churches, said, nope, we're not sending anyone back to these seminaries or Bible colleges.

We're going to do, we're going to create Bible institutes that are taught in the local church.

And we're not going to teach any of that.

So schooling must have been second nature then.

Having enrolled at Bible College in 1983, he was told that he needed deliverance from the not.

So why did our guest get busted and end up in a military prison? Why did a book by Bible teacher Malcolm Smith called Turn Your Back on the Problem blow his mind? Why did our guest leave formal pastoral ministry in 2007 to pursue as he puts it an inkling what were his reasons for co-writing his new book just love with another previous guest wayne jacobson why did he want to become the owner of a school academy and finally what is the knot gives me great pleasure to welcome live from south africa and if only my private jet could have taken me down there that would have been even better and that is toby funder westaheason toby thank you so much for joining us today whereabouts are you based please sir

We're at the bottom end of Africa, and we have, I think, probably the longest coastline on the African continent because it runs right around the bottom.

But before that, in 1983, I was fascinated to read on a biography that I found about your good self on your own website.

Yes.

about how the Bible College insisted that you need deliverance from the not.

Yes.

And Lord, I'm thankful for those that have already left for Liberia and those that are getting ready to leave.

And I just pray that whether it's a women's conference in Sesto City, Liberia, or Lord, it's in Dumaguete at the Bible College, or up on that smoky mountain, that you will use our people to spread the good news of Jesus Christ here and abroad.

Father, I pray that we be excited to share the gospel.

And now as we dig into your word, you have said they will know that we are your disciples by our love for one another.

I talked about a family called the Webs who were incredibly kind to me.

So when my parents got divorced, and I was at Bible College at the time, and the implications of my parents getting divorced didn't really strike me until the end of term when I had to leave my accommodation at Bible College and go home.

And I got to the railway station, and I suddenly thought, I don't have a home anymore.

It just hadn't