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Hell's Best Kept Secret In the late seventies, God very graciously opened an itinerant ministry to me. As I began to travel, I found that I had access to church growth records, and found to my horror that something like 80 to 90 percent of those making a decision for Christ were falling away from the faith. That is, modern evangelism with its methods is creating something like 80 to 90 of what we commonly call backsliders for every hundred decisions for Christ. Let me make it more real for you. In 1991, in the first year of the decade of harvest, a major denomination in the U.S. was able to obtain 294,000 decisions for Christ. That is, in one year, this major denomination of 11,500 churches was able to obtain 294,000 decisions for Christ. Unfortunately, they could only find 14,000 in fellowship, which means they couldn’t account for 280,000 of their decisions, and this is normal, modern evangelical results, and something I discovered way back in the late seventies; it greatly concerned me. I began to study the book of Romans intently and, specifically, the gospel proclamation of men like Spurgeon, Wesley, Moody, Finney, Whitfield, Luther, and others that God used down through the ages, and I found they used a principle which is almost entirely neglected by modern evangelical methods. I began teaching that principle; I was eventually invited to base our ministry in southern California, the city of Bellflower, specifically to bring this teaching to the church of the U.S. Things were quiet for the first three years, until I received a call from Bill Gothard, who had seen the teaching on video. He flew me to San Jose in northern California; I shared it with a thousand pastors. Then in 1992 he screened that video to 30,000 pastors. The same year David Wilkerson called from New York. He called from his car (he had been listening to the teaching in his car and called me on his car phone). Immediately, he flew me 3,000 miles from L.A. to New York to share the one-hour teaching with his church; he considered it to be that important. And recently I heard of a pastor who had listened to the audio tape 250 times. I’d be happy if you’d listen just once to this teaching which is called "Hell’s Best Kept Secret." ~ Ray Comfort [ed. note: find a quiet place without interruption, and listen carefully] "Hell's Best Kept Secret" in 4 Parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I4RjTabGbw part 1 of 4 (9:31) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMuykvhLfnc part 2 of 4 (9:54) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfrhYMaUmGM part 3 of 4 (9:44) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWpSZ5YxZw part 4 of 4 (8:40) "Hell's Best Kept Secret" Study Sheets HERE (5 page printable .PDF for Bible classes) Transcript of "Hell's Best Kept Secret" HERE (10 page printable .PDF for sermons) True and False Conversion Tonight I want, by the grace of God, to share with you a teaching called “True and False Conversion.” A very sobering teaching, and a teaching that I believe is most necessary within the contemporary church. I have a teaching called “Hell’s Best Kept Secret” which deals with the use of the Law in evangelism. In fact, God’s Law, the Ten Commandments, was the essence of the gospel proclamation of Wesley, Moody, Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards, all these men that God so greatly used. They said that if you don’t use the Law, you’ll almost certainly lead to false conversions. ~ Ray Comfort "True and False Conversion" in 5 Parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncnhmzfpwo part 1 of 5 (9:55) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z24R_YYP6z8 part 2 of 5 (9:56) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCxwnldGZPA part 3 of 5 (10:22) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlNxYX8pSbc part 4 of 5 (9:57) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOptjcInfTY part 5 of 5 (2:55) "True and False Conversion" Study Sheets HERE (4 page printable .PDF for Bible classes) Transcript of "True and False Conversion" HERE (12 page printable .PDF for sermons) |
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