Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

ack into the house, severely distracted. At the end of hispresentation, he demanded that she open the doorpartially and take his hand. She seemed shocked by thisrequest, but she cautiously did as he said. He then askedher if she wanted to go to Heaven when she died. Whenshe answered in the affirmative, he asked her to prayafter him the sinner’s prayer, which she did. Heannounced her gloriously saved, and she immediatelyclosed the door and went about her business.This lady, and millions like her, have prayed the sinner’sprayer without Holy Spirit conviction of sin, clearunderstanding of the gospel, or repentance toward God.Such empty “decisions” are the sad products of a faultysoul-winning technique.The churches that have adopted this method ofevangelism have produced millions of false professions.There are many churches that can show only a handful ofnew creatures in Christ for every hundred converts theyclaim. There is something extremely wrong about thatpicture. It is a great confusion.For nearly 40 years I have observed the sad fruit of thistechnique: multitudes of false professions, confusionabout salvation, indifference to biblical truth,agnosticism, reprobate living, weakened churches, andblasphemy against God. In many communities across theland a large percentage of the population has prayed asinner’s prayer under the ministry of churches practicingquick prayerism. Vast numbers of these have never beenborn again and they are now almost inoculated to biblicalsalvation. When challenged about their lifeless spiritualcondition, they commonly reply, “I have done that,”meaning they have prayed a prayer and have been given189