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How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? . . . How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.“? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! “We’re just trying to attract people and then we’ll gradually bring them in further and further.” That is what the cults do, that’s not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism [in most churches today].

– Paul Washer

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I stumbled across your post and am curious about the crowds you’re speaking about. To me (and I don’t claim to be a “master scriptorian), it seems that so many thousands follow Him that He has a hard time getting away from them…even to the point of having to divide loaves and fishes a couple of times to feed them. I’ve often marveled at His physical and emotional stamina to “keep on keeping on” healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, casting out devils, turning water to wine, teaching the disciples, preaching to all who would listen, “confounding” the Pharisees, and so forth.

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Marlajayne,

One example I can think of is in John 6. Jesus fed the crowd, and a little later, He tells them that they must drink His blood, and eat His body. Much of the crowd left (verse 66).

Thanks,
Bill

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Bill,

I think marlajayne was being sarcastic, asking what Paul Washer has done to “feed the poor, etc.” You know, spread the “social gospel.” I noticed over at her site she is LDS, so of course she is striving for a salvation by works.

What she probably doesn’t know is that Paul Washer spent many years of his life taking the gospel to the people in the slums of Lima, Peru and to the people of the Andes Mountains who had no other access to the gospel. So while her LDS church was busy “loving” people right into Hell by their good works and friendly faces, Paul Washer was living day-to-day in some of the harshest conditions imaginable to take the true Gospel (not the fake LDS “gospel”) to people who needed it.

But other than that, nah, he really didn’t do anything siginficant ::rolls eyes::

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