SAVING
FAITH; FAITH: INTELLECTUAL ONLY; EVANGELISM: TRUE CONVERSION

There are some frank things that need to be expressed about saving faith in our day, for even in our evangelical Christian circles there is a basic misunderstanding of faith.

It is a simple matter to get people to come forward when the invitation is given. It is a simple matter to get them on their knees. Then what happens?

Someone rushes in with a marked New Testament, sticks a text under their nose, and demands, “Now, who said that?”

The kneeling person says, “God?”

“Do you believe God?”

“Yes.”

“Well, then, do you believe the text?”

“Yes. I must believe it because I believe God.”

“Well, then, get right up and testify.”

In so many cases, he gets up with an intellectual faith that has no saving quality.

Matthew 7:21–23; John 16:8; Romans 10:8–10; 1 John 2:19

Echoes from Eden, 34.