From a 9Marks Interview: The preacher says, mistakenly, "If you believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins, you'll be forgiven and justified and saved." Then the preacher offers him the wording of a sinner's prayer and he prays it and he goes out of church saying, "I'm a Christian now." And nothing has been said to him about repentance. Nothing has been said to him about saying good-bye to the old life of self-centered self-indulgence. Nothing has been said to him about the fact that henceforth, he has a new life given him by the Lord and he belongs to the Lord who's given him the new life--he's bought with a price, hes not his own--and therefore, his whole business in life (I say "he"--it'll be "she" as well) their whole business in life is to glorify God in the way they live day by day.
Where those things aren't said, you have an inadequate presentation of the gospel and you're simply asking for false conversions. That is: people believing they've become Christians when in fact they haven't. No one becomes a Christian who hasn't repented. No one becomes a Christian who isn't consciously saying good-bye to the old life and welcoming the new one.
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