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On pages 17-18, Williams more fully defined what he held repentance and conversion to be:
“First, it must be by the free proclaiming and PREACHING OF REPENTANCE and forgiveness of sins (Luke 14) by such messengers as can prove their lawful sending and commission from the Lord Jesus to make disciples out of all nations; and so to baptize or wash them, into the name or profession of the Holy Trinity. Matt. 28:19; Rom. 10:14,15. Secondly, SUCH A CONVERSION, so far as man’s judgment can reach, which is fallible, AS WAS THE JUDGMENT OF THE FIRST MESSENGERS, as in Simon Magus, etc., AS IN THE TURNING OF THE WHOLE MAN FROM THE POWER OF SATAN UNTO GOD. Acts 16. Such a change, as if an old man became a new babe (John 4); yea, as amounts to God’s new creation in the soul. Eph. 2:10.”
That staunch old warrior for religious liberty was warning about the great crime of making and accepting Christian “converts” who are not truly converted. It is obvious what Roger Williams would think of the practice among independent Baptists today whereby multiplied thousands of people throughout the world are proclaimed “saved” merely because they have prayed a prayer. Many Baptist missionaries have described to me the terrible confusion that has been wrought in various parts of the world through the practice of Quick Prayerism by their missionary brethren who have carried this unscriptural evil beyond the shores of America. Yea, I have seen it with my own eyes.
During our 20 years of missionary work in South Asia, we could have gotten massive numbers of “decisions” and “prayers” had we been willing to use the methodology of Quick Prayerism. What Hindu does not want “to go to Heaven when he dies?” The Hindu will eagerly pray a prayer or go through any other religious ritual with that desired end,
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