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Repentance and Soul Winning 5 Repentance and Soul Winning Tis book was frst published under the title “Repentance Is More Tan a Sinner’s Prayer” Copyright © 2000 by David W. Cloud ISBN 1-58318-062-2 Second edition Enlarged 2002 Tird edition June 2006 Fourth edition July 2007 Fifh edition December 2008 Tis book is published for free distribution in eBook format. It is available in PDF, Mobi (for Kindle, etc.), and ePub formats from the Way of Life web site. We do not allow distribution of this book from other web sites. Published by Way of Life Literature P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061 866-295-4143 (toll free) • [email protected] (e-mail) http://www.wayofife.org (web site) Canada: Bethel Baptist Church, 4212 Campbell St. N., London, Ont. N6P 1A6 • 519-652-2619 (voice) • 519-652-0056 (fax) Printed in Canada by Bethel Baptist Print Ministry 2 Contents Introduction ...........................................................................5 Fundamental Baptists and Quick Prayerism .....................7 My Personal Experience ..................................................9 Te Zenith of Quick Prayerism ....................................13 Changing the Doctrine of Repentance ........................16 Te Traditional Belief About Repentance ..................18 Our Baptist Forefathers Required an Experience of Regeneration ..............................................................26 A Change in Evangelism Methodology ......................42 Many Are Rejecting “Quick Prayerism” .....................45 Biblical Repentance .............................................................46 Repentance Was Preached by Bible Preachers ..........47 What Biblical Repentance Is Not .................................51 Te Bible’s Defnition of Repentance ..........................57 Repentance Defned by Baptists of the Past ...............68 Illustrations of Repentance ...........................................75 Repentance and Faith ....................................................77 Te Soul-winning Context ............................................78 God’s Repentance ..........................................................81 Unscriptural Presentations of the Gospel ........................84 Te “Easy Prayerism” Presentation .............................85 Te “Insufficent” Presentation .....................................98 Te “Positive” Presention ...........................................104 Te “Need-Oriented” Presentaion ............................109 Does Salvation Make a Difference? ................................111 Salvation Demands Repentance ................................117 Salvation Requires a New Birth .................................120 What Changes Does Salvation Bring? .......................121 Salvation Is Evidenced by Perseverance ...................122 Saving Faith Works ......................................................123 3 Te Unchanged Professer ...........................................124 Woes of the Wayward Christian ................................126 Pentecost vs. Hylescost .....................................................130 A Different Message ....................................................133 A Different Requirement ............................................135 A Different Doctrine ...................................................142 A Different Method .....................................................142 A Different Result ........................................................144 How to Avoid False Professions .....................................147 Questions Answered .........................................................176 Bibliography ......................................................................194 4 Introduction Te old title of this book, “Repentance Is More Tan a Sinner’s Prayer,” doubtless puzzled some readers who have been taught that people are saved merely by praying a prayer. Te Bible, though, never says that. Te apostle Paul taught that salvation is “repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21). A repentant sinner who prays a sinner’s prayer sincerely to God, putting his trust exclusively upon Jesus Christ for salvation, will be saved, but an unrepentant sinner who prays a sinner’s prayer without true faith and with insincere motives will not be saved. A prayer alone has never saved anyone. Te publican in Luke 18 was saved when he prayed “God be merciful to me a sinner,” but it was not the mere utterance of those words that saved him; it was the fact that he was convicted of his sin and unworthiness before God and he had humbled himself in repentance and faith. If another man, staying nearby, had tried to pray the same prayer without the heartfelt repentance and faith of the publican, he would not have been saved merely through uttering the prayer. I am not opposed to using a sinner’s prayer to help people come to Christ. A well-worded sinner’s prayer can be a useful tool to assist the sinner in reaching out to God in faith, but it must be recognized that a sinner’s prayer alone, apart from repentance and faith, apart from the convicting, saving power of God in that person’s life, is an empty religious ritual. Some might ask, “But doesn’t Romans 10:13 say that ‘whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved’?” Yes, it does, but that verse cannot be interpreted properly apart from its context. Te context says that sinners are saved by confessing with the mouth the Lord Jesus and believing in the heart that God has raised him from the dead (verse 9), “For with the heart man believeth unto 5 righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (v. 10). We see, then, that salvation is frst and foremost a heart matter. Te cry unto God that saves the sinner must come from a repentant, believing heart. Apart from that, a sinner can cry out to God all day long and not be saved. Jesus Christ described people who pray, “Lord, Lord,” and who even do many wonderful works in His name, but who are not saved (Matt. 7:21-23). Prayers alone do not save. Te doctrine that a mere prayer saves sinners, even if they evidence no repentance in their lives is a great error in our day. In fact, repentance is one of the most neglected words in Christian evangelism. It is rarely even mentioned in Bible tracts and pamphlets and evangelistic Bible study guides. If it is mentioned, it is usually mentioned only in passing and so hastily that the reader could not possibly know what it means. Some have even redefned repentance as merely to “change from unbelief to belief.” According to this defnition, repentance has nothing to do with turning from sin. Te sinner allegedly has to repent of only one sin, the sin of unbelief. Repentance, though, means much more than this. It means more than to change from disbelief to belief. It means more than a mere change of mind. It is also more than praying a sinner’s prayer to obtain a ticket to Heaven. A survey of the Scriptures dealing with repentance leave no doubt that this is true, and this is what we have done in Chapter Two. 6 Fundamental Baptists and Quick Prayerism Speaking very broadly and generally, I praise the Lord for the fundamental Baptist movement. It represents a variety of congregations that hold certain things in common, chiefy (again, speaking very generally) Baptist doctrine, independence from denominational structures, and a fundamentalist militancy for the truth. Fundamental Baptist churches have exhibited a tremendous zeal for evangelism and world missions. Multitudes throughout the world have been saved because of this zeal. Fundamental Baptist churches have also been at the vanguard for the defense of the truth in these end times. George W. Dollar, one of the foremost historians of the Fundamentalist movement, makes the following observation: “Increasingly, independent Baptists have dominated the scene of Fundamentalism from 1935 onward. Teir hard- hitting evangelism produced some large churches; their constant emphasis on soulwinning and the erection of independent Baptist schools, with a strong push from interdenominationalism, have given them a commanding place on the American continent. … One added factor in this new situation has been the deepening apostasy among organized Baptists, Presbyterians, and Methodists. Fundamentalists among the last two groups have had great difficulty in getting many people to leave the old-line denominations. In fact, few Presbyterians and Methodists have been willing to leave at all, even in the face of outrageous apostasy and Liberalism” (Dollar, A History of Fundamentalism in America, third edition 1989, p. 213). Tese positive factors aside, in recent decades a great error has swept through many realms of the fundamental Baptist movement. I call it “easy,” “quick,” or “manipulative” 7 prayerism. It is an evangelistic methodology whereby people are told that they are Heaven-bound Christians and are counted as such in reports merely because they have prayed a sinner’s prayer even though they ofen give no evidence that they have been born again. I call it “prayerism” because it focuses on a prayer as the means of salvation. I call it “easy prayerism” because it promises people a home in Heaven without any repentance concerning sin. I call it “quick prayerism” because it specializes in quick presentations and quick decisions and an overall shallowness of depth. I call it “manipulative prayerism” because it incorporates methods of manipulating people into making professions of faith. Te churches that have adopted this unscriptural method of evangelism
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