WHY FREE ORAL PRAYER MEETINGS DISAPPEARED
Jesus predicted the ‘falling away’, or the apostasy of our day at the ‘beginning of sorrows’ in the last days. The time has truly arrived and prayerlessness is part of it.
Nevertheless, most evangelism today has a rationale the very opposite of the saints from the 14th C through the early 19th C. The changes came with New England Theology’s evangelism of ‘easy religion’.
Today:-
(1) The surviving spirit of prayer in assemblies, is now on the verge of extinction
(2) The USA is largely to blame and the 2,000 new breakaway church denominations of the 19th C.
Among them was a new breed of rough and ready evangelists with the gift of the gab who were sensational stage performers who grabbed the quick admiration of the masses by their quick, easy, unconditional packages to heaven and the afterlife.
(a) D L Moody, Billy Sunday, Reuben Torrey and a host of ‘also rans’ who offered magical new ways to pray, a new notion of faith, and a fast track to glory. Handshake, stepping down the aisle, or merely moving one’s lips by muted acquiescence or affirmation after agreeing to the Gospel salesman in the pulpit. Their contemporary William James the Father of American Psychology was delighted that they had absorbed many of his new notions and definitions of faith (even though he was an agnostic who progressively destroyed radical real conversion).
(b) Conversion by spur of the moment decision, walking an aisle, handshake or affirmation replaced New Testament radical conversion of the Puritans and the Reformation
(3) A new breed of pseudo Christians has arisen which
[a] says there is no need to sorrowfully and prayerfully seek the gift of repentance
[b] says there is no need to seek the Lord first with all of the heart, soul and mind
[c] says there is no need to read the Scriptures beforehand while seeking Him
[d] says there is no need of radical old fashioned biblical repentance,
[e] says there is no need to wait for the coming of faith, it is already universally pre-existent
[f] says there is no need to seek the grace of faith, as grace comes through man’s own faith
[g] says there is no need for the prior spirit of prayer to arrest sinners and awaken them,
[h] says there is no need for church prayer meetings to verbally intercede aloud for the lost
[i] says there is no need any longer for God’s Spirit to give His inner witness or assurance
[j] Automation had arrived, with automatic birth with automatic faith and repentance,
[k] Acknowledging a few Bible verses or doctrines was now the new birth (regeneration)
[l] Parroting a ‘Sinner’s Prayer’ was now the new birth (being born again)
[m]. Acknowledging a few Bible verses and parroting a prayer was now the new birth
[n]. Mouthing a one word agreement to a plan of salvation was now the new birth
[o]. Do it yourself religion had arrived and was in vogue
{i} Everyone already has the ability to immediately access God by mental knowledge gained from the evangelist
{ii} There is no need to read the Scripture first, or to be like the Ethiopian eunuch; the twelve Galilean disciples; the Jewish audience at Pentecost; or the Gentile audience with Cornelius who all read or heard the Scriptures read well before new birth
{iii} There is no need to seek the Lord with all one’s mind, heart, strength and might automation had arrived, you can do it yourself, without minimum effort. Just come as you are for unconditional packaged gift of eternal life. Just do what the preacher says and presto you can have it! You can easily miss hell’s pain and gain heavenly joys when you die.
Come and GET IT! It is FREE!
SPECIAL NOTE FOR THE READER:
This article expresses the false attributes of easy-religion, easy-evangelism, easy-soul-winning, and quick-easy false conversions of the Western Church, particularly from the USA and its missionary extensions throughout the globe for well over a hundred years. Sadly it has captivated evangelical and fundamental Christendom, including the moral majority. Prophecy of Jesus and the prophets has been fulfilled.
Maranatha! Even so, ‘Come, Lord Jesus!’
