David Platt - Why "Accepting Jesus In Your Heart" Is Superstitious & Unbiblical

making disciples is the natural or maybe better yet supernatural overflow of being a disciple proclaiming the love of Christ is the overflow of sharing in the life of Christ and I'm convinced many people in our churches are just simply missing the life of Christ and a lot of it has to do with what we've sold them as the gospel ie pray this prayer accept Jesus into your heart and bite Christ into your life should it not concern us that there is no such superstitious prayer in the New Testament should a non concern us that the Bible never uses the phrases accept Jesus into your heart or invite Christ into your life it's not the gospel we sebring preached its modern evangelism built on sinking sand and it runs the risk of disillusioning millions of souls it's a very dangerous thing to lead people to think that they are a Christian when they have not biblically responded to the gospel for not careful we will take the gospel the lifeblood out of Christianity and put kool-aid in its place so that it will taste better to the crowds it's not just dangerous it's just damning and when when then when we think about making disciples everything well it's just about going out and getting people to pray the prayer we spread that know let's give them full picture of the gospel let's show people the greatness of God yes he is a father who loves us he's a loving father who will save us but he is also a wrathful judge who made a Maas

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Keywords: David Platt, Superstitious Prayers, Jesus, Discipleship, Disciple Making, Disciple (Christianity), Christianity (Religion), Multiply

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Length: 2min 56sec (176 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 11 2012