Okay, Jonathan has been put on the blacklist for not following the rules and spamming the blog with comments.

Or maybe the “Send” key on the email program is stuck and keeps sending files from “My Documents” one after the other….

But I’m still thinking OCD.

Seriously doesn’t anybody read the rules about chain posting?? And this is a two year old post!! I smell a troll…..

OCD?

For those of you who don’t understand what we are talking about, charismatic or not, it is not a formula type thing, like some want to make it but a biblical point of view, four letter or three letter words aside.

Michael T.

Get you!

mbaker,
The reason I won’t repeat it on this site is because the last letter stands for an expletive. I’ll give you a hint – Rob Bell used it at a Catalyst Conference not too long ago sparking a rather heated debate on Out of Ur (the Christianity Today Leadership Blog). The reason it came to mind was because the chain posted ramblings of CHM about Paul Washer (who I’ve really never heard of) and the sinner’s prayer really have nothing to do with the content of this post.

I do.” Even though Paul did sin, Paul is still considered to be a Christian. As Paul himself could fall into sin, it implies that a person is still considered to be a Christian due to his initial acceptance of Jesus Christ to be his Personal Saviour through sinner’s prayer even though he might or will sin in the future.

Does this mean Christians should give way to sin? No, God forbids since John 14:15, “(mentions that) If ye love me, keep my commandments.” and the same is supported in John 15:10, “(that mentions that) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”

Nevertheless, sinner’s prayer is the way to be born again since it demands a non-Christian to request for the receipt of the Holy Spirit. However, once a person is converted, he has to obey God’s commandments. He might sin in the future and yet his salvation is permanent.

Prior to praying sinner’s prayer, a person has to repent from sinning, such as, continuing in worshipping idols and etc. Repentance is the foremost significance for the conversion to Christianity. Without repentance, a non-Christian might pray a hundred times sinner’s prayer, God would not listen to him since John 9:31, “(mentions that)…God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.” Sinner’s prayer is only effective when a person fully repents from sinning, such as, discontinuing in worshipping idols and etc., and he then says sinner’s prayer, God would then come and dwell into his life.

When a person becomes a Christian through sinner’s prayer, he is a Christian even though he might sin in the future and he will never fall away for his promise. This is supported by 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 as follows:
1 Corinthians 3:12-15, “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. IF ANY MAN’S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS: BUT HE HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVED; yet so as by fire.”

If you have read the book of Romans, you would have discovered even Paul himself was struggling with sin. The following is the extract:
Romans 7:18-20, “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”
Indeed, Paul did sin against God since Romans 7:19, “(mentions that) For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that…

Or to add, not that I agree that being charismatic as far as continuationism is necessarily believing in unbiblical things, although admittedly the modern hyper-charismatics have made believing in the ‘sign’ gifts a bad thing instead of using them as the Lord originally intended. I think the church has wrongly identified with that unintended misuse.