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Quick Prayerism is an evangelistic methodology that is quick to get people to pray a sinner’s prayer after a very shallow gospel presentation and usually without any hint of the necessity of repentance. It is quick to pronounce those people saved and give them “assurance” and to try to baptize them even if they barely show any interest in the presentation and even if they give no biblical evidence of having been born again.
Frequently, Quick Prayerism incorporates psychological salesmanship manipulation.
In Quick Prayerism, an empty “sinner’s prayer” has too often replaced Holy Spirit conviction and miraculous regeneration.
Quick Prayerism is characterized by soul winning reports that are grossly exaggerated, since the number of real conversions (as evidenced by changed lives) are minute compared to the overall statistics.
For example, Jack Hyles claimed that First Baptist Church of Hammond saw thousands saved every year he was there, amounting to something like three-quarters of a million souls won to Christ under his ministry through 2001. Schaap has reported many thousands more saved since then. What is the reality as reflected in the active membership of the church? In the United States, a church’s active membership is reflected pretty closely by its Wednesday evening crowd. A preacher friend who visited a mid-week service at First Baptist on March 14, 2012, told me that there were no more than 700 people in attendance. Many of those would be Hyles-Anderson students who came there from other churches.
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