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Originally Posted by Sherri
I think it was crafted to help those who are sinners and don't have a clue how to pray to a living God. It's effective if the person repeating it is sincere in his heart. But the prayer alone won't save anyone, if they don't genuinely repent.
I have seen people weep as they repeated a sinner's prayer. Some people really DO repent this way.
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Some people only know how to repent this way its all they've heard. When I began to come to God, I was 18 years old and laying on the couch watching TV. They were talking about the Y2K scare (it was like Novemeber of 1999) and I repented there on the couch. It was a genuine repentance. I struggled over the next 6 months to live a christian life since I wasn't in church, moved out on my own, and was still a teenager. All such circumstances which are not condusive to Christian growth. It was in fact over the next 6 months of my life that I was involved in some of the worst sins of my life, but even though I didn't know how to live for God, and failed Him MISERABLEY (and I mean failed God bad--I didn;t know the bible if someone would have brought 1 Corinhians 5-6 to me I could have believed it was written specifically to me (not all of it, but the shoe fit on alot of that material--disclaimer: not the incest part
). But my point is I was bad off, but that seed of repentance flourished into what I have become today.
I don't endorse the sinners prayer, and I've never used it myself as a means of conversion. when I go do jail ministry some of the other ministers use it at the conclusion, and it makes me cringe. I DO believe in justification by faith and I think the sinners prayer is a [big] step in that direction, but I certainly don't think the sinners prayer in and of itself brings salvation.
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