Praying the Sinner’s Prayer (which isn’t in Scripture) over and over again. Getting baptized multiple times because you were afraid you weren’t sincere enough or even really saved the times before that. Afraid you were a “Carnal Christian” and that there was some secret sin you had committed, which you didn’t know about or couldn’t remember and therefore couldn’t confess, hindering your prayers and your fellowship with God, leaving you separated from Him and His help. The biggest concern you had that week was the guilt you had over listening to some secular music. If you’re “really spiritual”, wouldn’t you want to listen to Christian music instead? But not Contemporary Christian music, because it sounded like the Devil’s music. And then people leave the Church altogether, burnt out and traumatized for life. And the Fundamentalists go on as if no one is to blame or nothing happened. “Well, it’s the end times, you know. People will fall away. It certainly isn’t something we did.”
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