The previous post had a quote from "A Lover's Quarrel with the Evangelical Church" (and challenged folks to read the book even if it might make them nervous or elevate their blood pressure)...Here's another quote from the book, but this is from R. C. Sproul:
"Everyone who has faith is called to profess faith, but not everybody who professes faith has faith. A lot of people, it seems to me, in the evangelical world, believe that if they have walked the walk, raised the hand, signed the card - that is, made some kind of methodological profession of faith - that they're saved."
The author, Warren Cole Smith, continues, "This statement is an affront to much of modern evangelicalism, but it should be familiar to anyone who knows the teachings of Jesus: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 7.21)
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