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Thus, after allegedly winning nearly a million people to Christ, the church’s faithful members can be counted in the mere hundreds.
That is Quick Prayerism.
We realize that not everyone that professes Christ will “pan out.” There will be false professions in any ministry, but Quick Prayerism is characterized by the fact that the vast majority of its professions are empty.
We are not talking about any sort of sinless perfection on the part of converts. We know that believers grow at different rates and exhibit different levels of discipleship and bring forth different levels of fruit. What we are warning about is a program that counts people as saved when there is ZERO evidence thereof, zero change, zero discipleship, zero fruit.
I call it “prayerism” because it focuses on a prayer. I call it “quick prayerism” because it specializes in quick presentations and quick decisions and an overall lack of spiritual and biblical depth.
Jack Hyles was one of the greatest promoters of Quick Prayerism. He promoted it through his bus ministry, his soul- winning courses, and his Pastor’s Conferences.
He claimed that tens of thousands were saved every year he was in Hammond, though these numbers did not reflect any level of reality in the active church family.
If three-quarters of a million people had actually been saved at First Baptist over the years of Hyles’ pastorate, that entire region would have been dramatically affected. The reality is that most of the numbers were empty professions, and the
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