The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
Interpretation
True conversion is demonstrated through one's actions and way of life, rather than mere declarations or decisions.
This quote emphasizes the idea that genuine transformation or conversion in a personβs life is not simply about making a one-time decision or declaration, such as signing a card or making a statement of faith. Instead, it involves living out those beliefs authentically and consistently through oneβs actions and daily life, reflecting the inner change that has occurred.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a sermon to emphasize the importance of living out one's faith.
We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.
Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
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