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as God but not as the only Lord and Saviour. They do not renounce idolatry. They try to add Jesus to their other gods. When a Hindu (or anyone else, for that matter) is ready to be saved, he is ready to turn from idolatry and to receive Jesus Christ ALONE as God and Savior. He will emulate the former idolaters in the church at Thessalonica who “turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God” (1 Thess. 1:9-10).
The churches we have started are careful in dealing with those who profess Christ and who want to join the church. They require some evidence that the individual is born again (Acts 26:20). If they did not do this, if they accepted anyone in that culture who wanted to “profess Christ,” the churches would quickly become overrun with unregenerate “Christianized Hindus.” And this is precisely what you find in many of the other churches.
One church in the States that is famous for the many “decisions” that are generated by its evangelistic program has followed up on some of my wife’s Asian contacts in that area. In some cases, they have gotten the Asians to pray a salvation prayer and they have gotten some of them “down the aisle and into the baptismal pool.” Yet they remain unregenerate and unrepentant of their idolatry. We once had a meal with one of the Asian couples who had prayed the sinner’s prayer. Prominently displayed on a living room wall were Hindu gods. The lady told my wife that, yes, they still pray to them -- yet they are baptized members of a fundamental Baptist church! It is not surprising to find a Hindu who wants to add Jesus to his or her gods, but what should be surprising is to find a church that claims to believe and obey the Bible but which accepts such empty professions
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