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Altar Call Theology, The Pastorpreneur and the True Gospel

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But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, - Titus 3: 4-5 (ESV)

Let us now take a look at the standard altar call prayer of the three most influential Pastorpreneurs on the planet today. First up is Rick Warren, author of the Purpose Driven Life. Besides his dominionist tendency and clear leaning toward ecumenicalism, Warren is largely responsible for a great portion of the apostasy in churches today because of his lesser known book, The Purpose Driven Church. This is the Bible for the pastorpreneurs of this day. It teaches them among other things how to view the unsaved as merely being unchurched, an eternally dangerous distinction. It teaches them how to get rid of sheep that disagree with purpose driven theology. Ignoring Acts 2, it teaches them that they are responsible for the horizontal growth of their church instead of the vertical growth of their sheep.

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. - Acts 2: 46-47 (ESV)

It is the Lord that is supposed to determine the number to be added, not the CEO/Pastor. The job of the leader is to shepherd them; sorry Pastor Stanley. On page 58 of the Purpose Driven Life, we find the only reference to salvation in the entire book:

I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: "Jesus, I believe in you and I receive you." If you sincerely meant that prayer, congratulations! Welcome to the family of God!

What's wrong with this? How about everything! Jesus I believe in you and receive you? That's it? God's ultimate plan to redeem all of mankind by sending His only Son to die a horrifically brutal death on the cross for our sins reduced down to less than 10 words? Not only that but not even a mention of sin and repentance within these nine words? What good does it do to merely believe in Jesus:

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe--and shudder! - James 2: 19 (ESV)

As if the prayer was not bad enough, what follows is just pure arrogance. To proclaim to everyone who reads his book and says these nine words that they are in the family of God is simply put; pastorally negligent. To give people a false sense of eternal security is reprehensible at best. Especially when you never gave them the Gospel to begin with. Look at Warren leaves everything to - "if you sincerely meant that prayer." All of eternity and the tenuous line between heaven and the fires of hell resting upon how we feel about something we said. Left up to our wickedly deceptive heart. How criminal. This is the new standard now for judging salvation. If you doubt your eternal position and ask a pastor they will inevitably ask if you were sincere when you said the sinner's prayer. As if your assessment of your feelings determines your salvation.

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