![]() ![]() Telling sinners to come forward, to accept Jesus, to invite him into their hearts, etc. It is a gospel that coerces and plays upon the emotion and doesn’t prick the heart. He is not being used by God because he preaches a different gospel, much like the Grahams do. The bible tells us to examine the ‘fruit’. Roten: where in the Bible does it say that a man is saved by listening to a false gospel, delivered by a false prophet (GL & company)? It’s called being born again, a totally foreign concept to GL and all his henchmen who care only for your money and praise with co concern whatsoever for your eternal well-being.Ī question for Mr. Nor will they ever mention that both are gifts from God to the believer gifts that no one has ever requested prior to salvation because they don’t have enough sense to know what they really need-to be made alive again by the Spirit of God because they are dead in their trespasses and sins and don’t even know it. Notice that no where in all the great speeches they deliver is there any mention of repentance AND faith. Anyone who thinks that their eternal soul’s fate was sealed for heaven because of some “decision” they have made (and prayer they have prayed) has fallen prey to the age old lie of the devil. GL is just another money hungry huckster adept at duping people of their money, their time, their allegiance (to GL) and their souls. Roten considers Greg Laurie to be a legitimate “minister of the Gospel” which he is not. Roten’s piece is the most disturbing of all. No, We Are Not All God’s Children by Bill Muehlenberg Who Are the Genuine Children of God by Mike Ratliff Our Church, Our Children and the “Sinners Prayer” If your method of calling people to respond to the gospel is giving people false hope and does not save should you really do it? Where is the altar call or sinners prayer in the bible? If these things are not biblical why would you do it? Continue reading Just look at the percentage of people who go forward that become false converts or fall away. What are the opposite numbers or statics of those who are false converts? By Billy Graham’s calculation, it would be 75% and by recent studies, it would be 97% to 94%. Looks like 25% was a little too high of a guess. Not too bad right? In recent years, studies have shown that only 3% to 6% of people who “come forward” at an evangelistic crusade are any different in their beliefs or behavior one year later. In a 1990 interview with PBS, Billy Graham thought that only about 25% of those who come forward at one of his events actually became a Christian. Events like this make so many people believe they were saved because they made a decision. ![]() Now, if people are getting saved from this crusade what is the problem? The problem is not with the people who are getting saved but with the false conversion it makes. It ends with a question similar to this one, “If there are people that get saved what is wrong with calling people to walk an aisle and pray the sinner’s prayer?” I have had responses like this, “What does it matter if only a low percentage is saved that actually come forward if people are getting saved?” Other statements have gone like this, “If God saves people at these conferences it seems to be of God right?”īefore I go any further let me just say that, “It does seem that some fruit has come out of the Harvest Crusades.” I rejoice at the people that God saved out of these events despite what they do at the end! The conversation tends to end the same way each time. ![]() This has sparked a lot of conversation lately for me. Harvest America, with Greg Laurie, is coming to AT&T stadium near my house. You ask, “how is this possible?” Jeremy Roten offers an explanation for what has been going on in Christendom… Thus, the visible Church has become rife with false converts. In other words, doing these sorts of things means a person can say with certainty, “I’m a Christian.” But do such methods save a person from going to hell? Or have we been sold a bill of goods by well-meaning evangelists, pastors, church leaders, teachers and friends? Sadly, we have. Many people believe that by saying the “ sinner’s prayer” or simply raising their hand during a church service to indicate they wish to have Christ in their life or going forward during a Billy Graham or Greg Laurie crusade means they’re born again (regenerate…saved). In a piece over at Pulpit & Pen, Jeremy Roten tackles the “false convert” issue. Posted By Marsha West on Jin Charismatic, Discernment 33 ![]()
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