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Now, go to Matthew 28, Matthew 28, what have we learned so far? Number one, the purpose of soul winning is to get people saved. That's why the fundamental Baptist churches in Arizona, a lot of them are either scaling this back or have eliminated it altogether and you are very hard pressed to find fundamental Baptist churches in Arizona that are aggressively soul winning. It's rare. I mean, they're out there. There are some out there. But it's rare because they have the wrong purpose. They think, oh, we've got to get with the times, we've got to get more modern on how to bring people in. And you know what? I'm not against trying to bring in saved people into the church because the more saved people come to church, the more people are going to be equipped and sent out and everything like that. But soul winning has another purpose that they've just completely missed. And then secondly, the purpose of church is to train the saints and teach them. Now, a lot of people will commonly complain about church and this is what they'll say, I stopped going to that church because I wasn't being fed there. Have you heard people say that before? And I'll tell you why that complaint is so common. Because many churches, every Sunday morning service is a gospel sermon. It's the plan of salvation every Sunday morning. And 98% of the church is saved. So you've got 90 some percent of the people are saved and they're just hearing the gospel every Sunday morning, gospel, gospel, gospel, gospel. So they're not being fed because they're just hearing stuff they already know and they're not getting the equipment and the training that they need because they're just being taught the same thing over. You know, I've heard people say this where they went to church and they almost wanted to shout out to the pastor, we're all saved. We get it, you know, teach us something else. And I've heard these pastors say, well, if you get tired of hearing the gospel, there's something wrong with you. You should want to hear the gospel every Sunday morning. But here's the thing. If you want to hear the gospel, let's go soul winning and we can hear it all day long to the people who actually need to hear it. You know, but why would you come to church to hear the gospel again and again? I've had people complain about our church. I went there and he never even preached the plan of salvation. When I visited one time and there was no gospel. That's because I wasn't preaching the gospel that Sunday. I'm preaching the rest of this big giant book that God gave us. He didn't give us a three by five card with the gospel on it. He gave us a whole book with 1189 chapters to edify you and to perfect you and so that you could grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Look at Matthew chapter 28 and see the Great Commission, very famous passage. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, verse 18, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even in the end of the world, amen. So what is our job as Christians, as believers, as a local church is to go out and teach all nations the gospel, yes. But then we're also supposed to baptize people and we're also supposed to teach them to observe all things whatsoever Christ commanded. So it's not just, let's just get people saved and baptized and stop there. No. The goal is to get people saved and baptized and to teach them all things whatsoever Christ commanded. And you know where we're going to teach them all things whatsoever Christ commanded? Right here, three times a week. Here's your, class is in session, three times a week, Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night to learn all things Christ commanded. Now look, people are doing things for the wrong reason. They get the wrong purpose. They think soul winning is to bring people to the church when in reality, the main reason we're going out soul winning is to win people to the Lord, okay. They miss that. Then they get it backwards and they think, oh, the church, that's for winning people to the Lord. No, church is primarily to teach the saints. And then they get this backwards and they say, oh, teach them to observe all things whatsoever I command you, that's done out on soul winning. How are we going to teach people to observe all things that Christ commanded out there at each person's house? You know, how would we have time? Because we would just be stuck with one person for years teaching them all things that Christ taught us to observe. And a lot of people will say, well, you know, you need to follow up with people and do in home Bible studies and teach them the word of God. No, the Bible says right here, this is where the Bible studies at. You know, and if I go out and bring somebody to the gospel and win them to Christ and they get saved, then it's like, okay, you need to grow more. You need to learn more. And guess what? It's at church. Here's where the church is. Here's what time it meets. You need to get down there and get some teaching and get training. And if the person isn't going to come to me, I'm not just going to keep going back to that person's living room. I don't have time to sit in the living room with every person I win to the Lord and teach them all things that Christ commanded for hours and days and weeks and years because you know what? I'm not really doing it to a group here. It's just so much more efficient to do it in the local church as God commanded. These young babes in Christ need to be convinced to get down here and get the teaching. But here's the thing, you can't force people to come to church and if they don't come, they're not going to get the training, unfortunately. They're not going to get the teaching. But this is, well, what kind of a discipleship program do you have for these young converts? Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night, three times a week. Discipleship class meets three times a week. New believers classes, three times a week because you and I know that a new believer could sit in this sermon right now, they're going to learn something. They're going to get some growth from hearing this sermon. They're going to learn about what it means to go out and give the gospel to people and be sent out and what the purpose of church is and so forth. Everybody needs to learn that.