Child evangelism

[evangelist6589]

Thanks for that post. Sadly there are many preachers who do that sort of thing and you wind up with a congregation of unregenerate people.

I used to ask one of my lovely granddaughters what made her so pretty. She would say: "Jesus up in the sky!" That would have been sufficient for some preachers to dunk her!

Its mostly found in Arminian churches.

 

[quantumfaith]

Its mostly found in Arminian churches.

"It's"

Your ASSUMPTION is just that...an assumption. Glad to be in one of those "arminian" churches.

 

[evangelist6589]

"It's"

Your ASSUMPTION is just that...an assumption. Glad to be in one of those "arminian" churches.

Refer to my thread Soul winning or evangelism for I make it clear by the scripture that only God can grant faith and repentance and that these so called "soul winners" are cheating the Holy Spirit out of his work by claiming to be able to bring souls to faith.

 

[annsni]

In the first church I ever attended the pastor was a soul winner. During revivals or at the end of each sermon after he preached he would comb the church at the altar call searching for some young child he could bring to the altar and lead down the Romans road. His wife often testified she was lead to the Lord when she was three years old. What does a three or four year old child know about being under the burden of sin ? Cradle row converts is what you have and then later when the hormone's kick in there gone. Oh wait! the ones that do get saved later in life said they were backslid all those years. This same preacher on Sunday morning would send someone around to the Sunday school rooms and have everyone to turn in how many people they had led to the Lord that week or made contacts as he called it and then during church service make a big cudu about what a soul winning church he was pastoring.

Pulling a child up to the front and doing, in public, the Romans road and saying that they are saved is wrong. However each of my children came to the Lord of their own volition (we didn't push them) at a young age. They totally knew about being under the burden of sin because that is what led them to the Lord in the first place. To say that children can't come to Christ is wrong.

But I also agree with you about the numbers thing. In the last 4 years, we've had people come to Christ but it's not a huge number. But those lives that were changed were changed drastically. I looked back in my e-mail and saw one from a friend who e-mailed me when we first started our church campus and she asked us to pray for her sister who lived out there. She was unsaved and an alcoholic. So we committed to pray for her and now, 4 years later, she is saved, in recovery and assisting in leading worship!! She is in her later 50s but like a child when it comes to speaking about Jesus - so full of awe, exuberance and joy. I'm convicted when I see her because I need to make sure that I approach my relationship with Christ in the same way!! So we don't have big numbers but this one woman is just an example of the lives we've seen changed in a big way. THAT is what I want to see. We don't raise hands. We don't have "come down to the altar". We just have one on one conversations and being the ones who bring the gospel and leave it to Jesus. He's done some great work when we do that!

 

[blessedwife318]

Was just reading. According to the book of Acts men, women, and then youth were evangelized in that order. So many churches these days have it backwards and put the children/youth in front of men/women.

According to Acts the Gospel was preached to Jews, Samaritans, and Gentiles in that order. So many churches have it backwards and put Gentiles in front of Jews and Samaritans. :tonofbricks:

 

[Salty]

... these so called "soul winners"...

Lets see, you just might be right according to Proverbs 11:30