The Graham Formula -- Part 2 of 7

This is the second of seven parts of The Graham Formula, a 30 minute video presentation based on the book by Patrick McIntyre. By explaining the evolution of the altar call and salvation prayer, McIntyre identifies why most Americans think they are born again.

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Education

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• Evangelism
• altar
• call
• Billy
• Graham
• salvation
• prayer
• false
• co

[patrickmcintyre]

Hello APSOC38-

Thank you for your insightful comment.

Patrick

[Sogwa]

LOL!! What a novel idea! JUST like Catholic Indulgences MINUS the fee!

I ALWAYS wondered & could NEVER quite understand or get how quoting a few simple sentences automatically gave u a free ticket to heaven! & as most Amer. Christians say, a guaranteed ticket that can never be revoked!

For my sake, l hope this sillyness is right. But LOGICALLY it is insane - & basically nowhere in the Bible. No where did Jesus EVER say to quote or pray these words & bamm, ur saved!

[fathersonnholyspirit]

the one world religion and false messiah will come wih a whopping case of "peace, love, oneness, unity and globalism..." folks satan knows all the keywods and he will decieve if possible even the elect. Relationship with Jesus Christ THE most important thing.

[APSOC38]

What's even more amazing that even though Charles Finney wasn't the most squared-away evangelist theologically, he appears to have never gone to Billy Sunday's extremes.

IMO, quality is more important than quantity. Quantity might as well inherit the wind - if they're "lucky".

[TestReply]

I felt weak from the load off my soul, then joy that I never knew was possible and then I knew what people meant that they loved God. I used to wonder how you could love Him without ever meeting Him. I meet Him. Peace of God is not like the concept of no war between countries; it's holy peace between you and God. I was floating so high; unfortunately, I frightened some people.

[TestReply]

Pt 2 Believing God through the revelation of the Holy Spirit. A new creature in Christ, joy unspeakable, peace that passes all understanding. My conversion was swift and dramatic. My own mother told me later that she felt she had lost me because I had changed so much. The night that I was saved and went home to tell my parents (who did not speak of religion), ..."That's nice; go to bed; it's late."

[TestReply]

Even before I was spiritually born again, I lived a moral life AS IF a Christian, believed IN God, Jesus, the Bible, prayed, hoped that I would go to heaven, attempted a salvation surrender--but there was no spiritual change--the still-born-again experience you spoke of that many people cling to. I totally agree that there are false conversions and I've seen a total lack of follow up just to accumulate NUMBERS of so-called converts. It's an open abyss that people are falling through.