Why is Les free to teach without worrying whether people like it?
He is free to teach without concern for popularity because he never taught for monetary return, and he recognizes responsibility only to the author of Scripture. That independence lets him take uncompromising stands, even telling a man it was fine if he did not return.
Les explains that he refuses to call those Jewish believers Christians simply because the Bible doesn't, and he knows he stands alone out there. But that's alright, because he has never taught classes or television with any idea of monetary return. Therefore he doesn't have to worry about whether people like it or not. He told one gentleman one night it was fine with him if he didn't want to come back, no skin off his nose; the man came back a couple of weeks later and became one of his best students. Les says he feels the same way even here: he can take his stand without compromise because he is responsible only to the author of this book, and he handles it realizing what a tremendous responsibility it is.