Salvation Message
 

Looking for some opinions...

How often should a pastor preach the Salvation message?
My thoughts are that no visitor should ever leave without understanding that they must:

1) Repent
2) Be baptized
3) Receive the Holy Ghost (with speaking in tongues as evidence).

What would you do if you felt your pastor did not preach the salvation message as often as you would like?

Re: Salvation Message
 

If we really believe the message of the way the Bible is divided into sections called Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, would we ever preach the salvation message unless everyone there was not saved? Would it be OK to preach the salvation message if the church was full of saved people?

Re: Salvation Message
 

1) My thoughts are that I'd hate to have to hear you preach!
2) The three things you listed isn't the message of salvation!

Re: Salvation Message
 

Isn't easier to get saved in this movement than to stay saved?

Re: Salvation Message
 

poor guy. he thinks this is an apostolic forum.

Re: Salvation Message
 

:lol

Re: Salvation Message
 

Some believe that the religious sect of oneness Pentecostalism which began in 1913 is the true Apostolic church too.

Re: Salvation Message
 

At some point in every Sunday morning service, we give sinners a chance to repent. But we don't preach Acts 2:38 every week. The first step is getting them saved, and then we give them information about baptism and the Holy Ghost.

Re: Salvation Message
 

Very much an Apostolic forum, Berk.

You and I know that many at the merger, like Goss, Gurley, Stairs, et al believed those 3 "steps" were not done IN ORDER TO BE SAVED but rather a biblical standard of what a saved person follows... while firmly believing we are regenerated at the point of faith/belief/repentance.

Sherri believes in those 3 steps, for example, in the PCI APOSTOLIC fashion.

Re: Salvation Message
 

We are to preach Christ and him crucified ... the message of the Gospel, the good news of HIS DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION, is evident in all of the paraphrased messages/sermons in the historical narrative of Acts ...

Folks need to come through our doors knowing Jesus Christ is the WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.

I would be disappointed if a message of HOPE and SALVATION in Christ was not preached.

That saved believers were initially and subsequently baptized and are given the gift of the Holy Ghost (eternal life) is believed by an overwhelming majority of Christians.

I am yet to meet a Christian who doesn't believe Acts 2:38.