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For years I have observed the sad fruit of this technique: multitudes of false professions, confusion about salvation, indifference to biblical truth, agnosticism, reprobate living, a weakening of the significance of church membership, neglect of church discipline, and blasphemy against God.
In many communities a large percentage of the population has prayed a sinner’s prayer through the outreach of churches practicing Quick Prayerism, though vast numbers of these have never been born again and they are now almost inoculated to biblical salvation. When challenged about their lifeless spiritual condition, they commonly reply, “I have done that,” meaning they have gone through a Quick Prayerism Romans Road plan of salvation, prayed a prayer, and been given assurance of eternal life by the soul winner. Since they were not told that God requires that they repent, they are comfortable and self-assured that they have a ticket to Heaven even though there has been no change.
Those who observe these things are made to think that salvation means little or nothing in relation to one’s manner of life.
Another aspect to Quick Prayerism is the refusal to acknowledge that someone is not saved if there is no change. Practitioners of Quick Prayerism tend to justify the lack of change that is evident in the majority of their converts. In churches that practice Quick Prayerism people tend to get upset if the reality of the conversions is questioned.
I met a missionary in England who told me that many people were “coming to Christ” through their evangelism outreach, but he also admitted that they weren’t seeing much church growth. When I questioned the reality of the “decisions” he got upset and said that we cannot know who is saved or lost.
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