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Originally Posted by pelathais
I think some of that is also skewed a bit by what it means to be a "convert" in these reports.
Show up at a rally and go forward and fill out a card. Then two weeks later you get a message on your voice mail that you're too busy to respond to. So you never go to "church" and checking out Benny Hinn just turned you off to religion again.
That's a "convert" in most of the AoG. I was a "convert" in the AoG twice, a Southern Baptist once and "independent" and "charismatic" several times before I even had my driver's license as a teenager.
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Well said. However this speaks directly to the issue of what passes for salvation among these people. To them, if you "accept Jesus" youre saved.
At best, "acepting Jesus" is only
repentance. And repentance by itself does not constitute salvation.
The mere fact that these people can "accept Jesus", be counted as "converts", and then 3 weeks later, you look at them and its like
nothing happened... that just shows how shallow the "conversion experience" is in churches that espouse this teaching, which is based on unsound biblical doctine to begin with.
Its a shame that some formerly strong Apostolic churches have drifted into this doctrinal fallaciousness, which only gives people a false sense of salvation and security.