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Witnessing The Gospel Message, by Ray Comfort

In the following video, Ray Comfort opens with Ben Affleck speaking in a group about sin and his Christian struggle. Comfort then goes to two College students and does his gospel presentation.

If you have not learned how to witness the gospel message, you might learn a few points from Ray. There are posts in this blog wherein Todd Friel is witnessing the gospel; and a post that uses only videos to inform one how to present the gospel, in the category Gospel Message; and Gospel Message Defined.

 

 

Comfort says about Affleck that he is not quite there for reasons he asks viewers to identify from Affleck’s talk, I think those reasons are as in the following bullet points.

After the following points, I noted a process called the struggle of faith, devised by Pastor Jonathan Edwards wherein a five-step process is identified that leads to the born-again experience (even though that is unheard of in this day where everyone is born again the moment they utter the sinner’s prayer — what a grave falsehood that notion is!).

Afflecks errors:

The process leading to the born-again experience: Affleck may be on step two of the following process? To see the post from which the following comes, see: Categories, Sin: The Sinner’s Prayer.

Jonathan Edwards established a 5 stage process which he termed, the struggle of faith  1) horror of being eternally lost; 2), the sinner’s attempt to stop sinning via his will power; 3), realization that only God can save him from sin; 4), conviction, the sinner beginning to see that God’s judgment is just; 5), awakening to God with genuine religious affections.

The following prominent Christians spent many years between stages 1 and 5 of Edwards standard of assessment for genuine conversion:

John Calvin, 12 years; Wesley, 23 years; Whitefield, 10 years; Fox, 12 years; Edwards, 5 years; Brainerd, 9 years; Newton, 6 years; Spurgeon, 4 years….

I am left thinking, “Where am I on this scale?” The criteria of stages 3 and 4 are very familiar to me; not so with 5. I must examine myself more carefully.

At what stage are you?

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