A Quote To Ponder On "Accepting Christ"

 

From A.W. Tozer:

“I cannot estimate the number, although I think it is a very large number, of people who have been brought into some kind of religious experience by a fleeting formality of ‘accepting Christ,’ and a great, great number of them are still not saved. The results of this are all around us as people who falsely count themselves saved still behave like the sinners they are instead of behaving like someone who is truly born again. This sad increase of people who are deceived in this way is a direct result of an irresponsible approach to evangelism among evangelicals – an approach that suggests “it is the easiest thing in the world to ‘accept Jesus’” and permits people to accept him simply by a fleeting emotional impulse.

 

“In previous generations, the call to ‘accept’ Christ communicated the mighty and glorious truth that individuals do not have to earn heaven through good works. However, since that time, the word ‘accept’ has degenerated quite significantly and now implies someone can become a Christian apart from real repentance and spiritual transformation. The call to ‘accept’ Christ has produced a generation of Christians, or so-called Christians, that are impenitent in their heart, frivolous in their spirit, and worldly in their conduct.”

 

“Is justification from past offenses all that distinguishes a Christian from a sinner? Can a man become a believer in Christ and be no better than he was before? Does the gospel offer no more than a skillful advocate to get the guilty sinners off free at the day of judgment?”