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university professor — there must surely be a real awarenessfirst of the need for forgiveness and a subsequent desire forrepentance, otherwise conversion becomes a mere mentalassent.(It should be pointed out here that there are two equal andopposite errors into which we can fall on the experience ofconversion. One is what is known as ‘Sandemanianism’ —named aer Robert Sandeman, 1718-1771, the Scottishminister who first publicly propounded this doctrine — whichinvolves the idea that a person merely needs to give verbalassent to the propositions contained in the Gospel in order tobe saved, without any evidence of a heart change orregeneration. e other is what we can call ‘Preparationism’ —whereby a person is persuaded of the need to enter into amassively over-prolonged (or even indefinite) period of intensepreparation for conversion, during which he must go throughthe most oppressive heart-searching rigours, without which hecannot be saved. We must always be sure that our evangelismdoes not encourage either “easy-believism” or its opposite:bondage-making preparationism. ey lie at contrary ends ofthe spectrum, but both are deadly, conversion-stifling errors.)Secondly, a child who is genuinely regenerated will surely notsubsequently become an adolescent rebel, with a tendency topartake in “the cynicism of the time”, as Kendrick puts it. Itseems to be taken for granted in so many evangelical churchestoday that even youngsters who profess Christianity will stillgo on to be teenage rebels who need to express themselves inrock music, foppish clothes, and the raucous multi-mediaexperiences of the world. But such out-and-out rebellionbelongs to the fallen nature and should not be a feature in abeliever’s life of any age.irdly, in this testimony, there is that typical feature of neoevangelicalism:the desire for increasingly exciting experiences.Regardless of what Mr. Kendrick says here, he was indeed a“crisis person” who was seeking a “crisis experience”. Is therenot a link here back to that early prayer of his whichengendered “an excitement deep inside me” but whichapparently failed to kindle godly sorrow and contrition? e203