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Fred Jordan and the Soul Clinic |
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 "I learned that we no longer needed great church buildings and denominations to accomplish God's purpose on earth." |
While David's disillusionment with organized
religion was becoming more pronounced, he was also enthusiastically embracing the
teachings of pioneer radio and television evangelist Fred Jordan, founder of the Soul
Clinic missionary training schools. For several years, David traveled the U.S., booking
Jordan's "Church in the Home" show on over a thousand radio and TV stations.
Many of the precepts that he learned from Jordan were to form the blueprint for the
Children of God. He later acknowledged: "We owe much to these and their modern interpretation and application of the principles of the New Testament.… "Under [Jordan's] Biblical teaching at his Soul Clinic school I learned that we no longer needed great church buildings and denominations to accomplish God's purpose on earth. In fact, they were really never needed; but we needed to go back to the original plan and pattern that God had set for His people as so clearly demonstrated in the Acts of the Apostles and the teachings of Christ, and summed up so simply in that one Scripture: 'Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature!' (Mark 16:15). And the Gospel summed up so simply itself, the Good News: 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life!' (John 3:16) -- the Love of God in Jesus and His salvation for you and me. I have followed that scriptural teaching and that New Testament pattern to the best of my ability ever since." [20] |