I’ve got a name for the error I’ve posted on many times.What I’m talking about is the practice of many preachers to have the audience repeat a sinner’s prayer or have an altar call and have those up front repeat the prayer, without explaining the Gospel, without telling the people Who Jesus is, that He died on the cross, or that He rose from the dead, or just mentioning the cross without mentioning the resurrection.Just believing that Jesus died on the cross doesn’t save you. Caiaphas believed that. Plenty of atheists believe that. We need to preach the fact that Christ rose from the dead. I Corinthians 15:1-3, Romans 10:9-10. If we are dealing with totally unchurched people we need to start with Who God is like Paul did in Lystra and Athens.Easy repeatism is often a kind of laziness. It seems to be based on the error that if one repeats a prayer that mentions the name of Jesus, that one is saved, or that if one does not go through the ritual of repeating a prayer, one is not saved. It’s the practice of having people repeat a prayer before the gospel has been presented, or else having them repeat a prayer– which is supposed to save them– before they have believed the Gospel. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen any street witnessers who don’t even try to see where their witnesees are at in their beliefs before ‘closing the deal’ by having them repeat a prayer.One of the bad things about this is when preachers will not preach the Gospel, not preach the cross or the resurrection, have folks ‘repeat a prayer to ask Jesus into your heart’ and then declare the people who did this saved and born again.Then those folks, inoculated to the gospel, thinking they have a ‘get out of hell free card’, are now considered ‘born again’ on all those surveys that tell us how born again people live and believe________________
The Bible says He cast our sins as far from the east is from the west. Or the sea of forgetfulness. Never to remember them against us any more. So if you are forgiven I believe they are forgiven. If they feel they are called to preach. All I know pray until you get an answer. But I see well what you are saying. I feel the same way. But it seems like they have changed and forgiven. God would lead in a different way. But I really don’t know what God would do. The Scripture just came to me. In The Lords Prayer. He said led us not into temptation. He also tells us not to give place to the devil. Seems to me if that has been a life style for you. That would be putting yourself in a place of temptation. Even if you are forgiven , don’t give place to the devil.
Yes. that still stands in the bylaws.
I believe we are too light in handling sexual sins of all natures. There is a reason God Labels homosexuality as a sex of abomination and not just a sin. Notice this, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. Notice according to this series of Scriptures sexual sin is a different classification of sin and has different results “done against the body, ye temple of The Holy Ghost”. (Notice sinning against the body the temple of the Holy Spirit). Who are we to re-classify God’s classification? Here’s one for you, “Why did Acts 5:1 Ananias and Sapphira his wife, have to die (unless lying to God and to His Spirit is Blasphemy)? Here is another one, Acts 12 Herod died instantly for receiving praise…. Here is the point, God created us, He set the limits, He set the requirements, He alone knows. Our job is to keep His standard and walk as close to Him and what He requires, instead of around the edges and outer fringes. If they are genuine repentant and doing the ministry of God then God will open the doors “and their gifting will make room for them”.