Sincere but sincerely wrong!

Here is a video clip of a mega church pastor in Charlotte being passionate and sincere. Unfortunately he is sincerely wrong in pitting evangelism against discipleship. We must be so careful not to take what we like in the Bible at the exclusion of what we may not like as much. It seems that this pastor does not have a healthy Biblical tension between evangelism and discipleship. It is not Biblical to collapse one at the expense of the other. I have included the entire clip so you can see the full context of his message. However it is obvious that evangelism is the #1 priority and Bible teaching via discipleship is almost mocked from the pulpit. In the full video are sarcastic references to Kay Arthur and Beth Moore, who are both Bible teachers. How would this pastor interpret 2Tim. 2:15 - Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. Is it possible to live the word without correctly learning the word? The Bible never pits evangelism against discipleship or a strong commitment to the word of God. It isn't either/or but rather it is both/and. I am still amazed at the Christian jargon that is used regarding evangelism. For example in this video the pastor says that 500 people have given their lives over to Jesus. What does that really mean? How is he sure they have been genuinely justified by faith? If we track these 500 people for 5 years and discover that 495 still think, act, sound and do what they were doing prior to given their lives over to Jesus, then what should we conclude? Here is what we are to conclude, they were in fact not genuinely converted. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that 500 made a profession of Christ. And now the church, through a small group, is going to come alongside of these people in order to confirm that the calling God placed on their lives is in fact real. This is where solid Bible teaching and discipleship can be so valuable. For more on genuine conversion check out what the Lord Jesus says in Matthew 7:13-29. This means if these 500 people now walk the narrow way instead of the broad way, they have lives in which they produce good fruit and not bad fruit, and there house is built on a rock and not sand then and only then are they truly saved. Watch this video for yourselves and decide based on Scripture if the pastor is sincere or sincerely wrong! Again here is the full video clip.