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Hyles-Anderson student in his church obtained roughly 1,000 decision cards from First Baptist Church’s visitation ministry. They diligently followed up on these individuals but were extremely disappointed to find that not even one was interested in the things of Christ. The batch of professions was entirely void of spiritual reality. He testified to me that this opened his eyes to the danger of the Hyles approach to evangelism and underscored the duplicity of the reports that are published by First Baptist. I will not give his name, because I don’t want him subjected to the carnal harassment to which I have been subjected; but I have it on record, and the Lord knows.
Longview Baptist Temple in Longview, Texas, claimed on its website in 2000 that more than one million people had been won to Christ in 25 years. Yet on an average Wednesday evening service, which is the truest reflection an American church’s active membership, you will only find a few hundred people in attendance. Literally hundreds of thousands of these souls that have been “won” are nowhere to be found.
When we were given the “decision” cards to follow up on a county fair ministry in Oklahoma in about 2000, of the hundreds of professions that were recorded we could not find even one person who gave any evidence of salvation or was even interested in attending church.
A pastor friend followed up on the more than 100 “salvation decisions” that were made at a county fair ministry in Kentucky in 2011, and he did not find one soul who was even interested enough in Christ to attend church.
There is something wrong with this picture. It is a great confusion and a very serious error.
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