I wanted to tackle my earlier post from a pharmacy angle. The previous post talked about shortcuts to salvation and how in the great awakening times, there was a different result where the world around them was affected. Today hundreds get "saved" at the last great evangelical event and there is no impact on our society. Muslims continue to take over and dominate and their presence is increasing and so is their influence. They use the same strategy they used for thousands of years --they infiltrate, populate, and annihilate. George Bush calls them a religion of peace, but that is a lie. The moderate luke warm Muslims are the majority in America because just like the Christians, they love the pleasures of this land more than God and you don't truly see their faith in action. Real Muslims are just obeying the Koran and they will cut people's throats, blow themselves up, and crash into buildings because they are just living out their faith. Recently not in America of course, a man said that "Jesus was the greatest prophet". I believe he said it to his Muslim Barber. The Muslims retaliated and burned and pillaged the neighborhood for days. The police said to let them just vent and basically excused their actions because they were offended. Christians, we put up with everything and anything. People blaspheme Jesus in our presence all the time. Do we love him enough to say anything? You don't have to be a jerk, but say, excuse me that is my Lord you are talking about. Do you know you will have to give an account to God for everything you ever said?
The Muslims are taking over the world, and will take over America. The Christians are too ashamed, and too compromised to do anything. What will it take? A nuclear bomb stamped Made in Korea to shake us up?
The other day I was giving out tracts in Wal Mart and handed them to 2 guys. Later they were in my line and I started talking with them. I am nothing, but it was neat, because they turned out to be 2 Buffalo Bills professional football players. The tight end, and a running back. I was able to witness to them a bit, and after gave the one my website info. Later God put this though on my heart -- how many Christians would be more interested in getting their autographs vs. witnessing to them? Hell is a real place and there are only 2 kinds of people, saved and headed for hell.
The problem with the evangelism today I think we can look again at medical. If I have cancer they may hook me up for chemo for a 4 hour IV and I have to go multiple times for several weeks. If I leave the IV after 5 minutes, I may have received the right cure but it wasn't given long enough to work. If I only go through 3 correct treatments, but the treatment is supposed to be 16 treatments, I never completed treatment. Likewise, if I am teaching the right doctrine in my evangelism, salvation is faith and repentance, but my converts only received 5 minutes of presentation when the men of old received the same medicine for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours, is there any wonder why our converts seem to not get cured of the sin disease?
Again, that is why I think the best strategy today is to incorporate all these truths ---1. The Right Cure Jesus 2. Administered the Right way -- Faith and Repentance 3. Given at the Right dose --- whatever exposure it takes for someone to be genuinely saved and not live half in the world and half church 4. rightly convinced of the disease thru the Law of God as a schoolmaster 5. with proper explanation of side effects (temptation, tribulation, and persecution) and true benefits of the curb (new desires new direction new creature, and saved from penalty of sin, and being saved from the power of sin) and consequences of the disease (Hell in the lake of fire).
Hence, today I think the potential converts need a 5 week bible study first, grounding them in the doctrines of creation, the Real Jesus, the law and holiness of God, the false Christs and false religions out there and true biblical salvation. Instead of our 5 minute presentations.
And if we start looking at cures instead of decisions, we could better evaluate our methods.
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