He began speaking on the controversial doctrinal issues he had avoided for most of the revival.[113] By the 1960s, Branham's contemporaries and the Pentecostal denominations that had supported his campaigns regarded him as an extremely controversial teacher.[114] The leadership of the Pentecostal churches pressed Branham to resist his urge to teach and to instead focus on praying for the sick.[115] Branham refused, arguing that the purpose of his healing ministry was to attract audiences and, having thus been attracted, it was time to teach them the doctrines he claimed to have received through supernatural revelation.[116] Branham argued that his entire ministry was divinely inspired and could not be selectively rejected or accepted, saying, "It's either all of God, or none of God".[115]