On the 12th Anniversary of Faithful Word Baptist Church on December 24, 2017, Pastor Steven Anderson preached a message where he gave the statistics of how many people their church members have claimed to lead to Christ. On May 27, 2018, Garrett Kirchway was kicked out of Faithful Word Baptist Church, as was Domonique Davis.
The New IFB position, as recently preached by Matthew Stucky at Verity Baptist Church, and specifically preached against Garrett Kirchway, is that unsaved people cannot win souls to Christ. (Edit 6/18/18 Anderson also preached this yesterday)
In a comment on Verity’s original YouTube video, one of the New IFB soulwinners made the comment below:
If Dominique Davis and Garrett Kirchway, both called unsaved by the New IFB, were producing triple-digit numbers of professions in a one-week period, how much of the stats given by Staven Anderson were false salvations? What about soulwinning done by others who are now considered apostate? And as soon as another new IFB leader gets removed, those stats will have to go too!
Below is the video on the sermon statistics:
Thanks for this. I was in Botswana hen Anderson was falsely claiming 411 salvations, while he and his 19 other missionaries were being rounded up by Immigration for deportation. I wonder why real evidence of salvations is never shown. Later after deportation Anderson increased this number. I guess numbers were invented to get people in USA to make online donations for Andersons unregistered ( and therefore illegal) church in Botswana. There was only one meeting ever of the FWBC church in Botswana and only missionaries turned up. Nobody who had been ‘saved’turned up. I was there.
Thanks Tony for your insights. My church also has missionaries in Botswana and they have told how they have to be very careful when it comes to conversion, because the people there are very friendly and will say or do anything to get on the good side of the “American.” This is not always a bad thing, but it does mean that if you are just getting people to repeat prayers and then notching your belt, you will end up with a lot of notches and no conversions.