Salvation Message

[houstonupci]

Looking for some opinions...

How often should a pastor preach the Salvation message?
My thoughts are that no visitor should ever leave without understanding that they must:

1) Repent
2) Be baptized
3) Receive the Holy Ghost (with speaking in tongues as evidence).

What would you do if you felt your pastor did not preach the salvation message as often as you would like?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by houstonupci

Looking for some opinions...

How often should a pastor preach the Salvation message?
My thoughts are that no visitor should ever leave without understanding that they must:

1) Repent
2) Be baptized
3) Receive the Holy Ghost (with speaking in tongues as evidence).

What would you do if you felt your pastor did not preach the salvation message as often as you would like?

If we really believe the message of the way the Bible is divided into sections called Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, would we ever preach the salvation message unless everyone there was not saved? Would it be OK to preach the salvation message if the church was full of saved people?

[Mr. Smith]

Originally Posted by houstonupci

Looking for some opinions...

How often should a pastor preach the Salvation message?
My thoughts are that no visitor should ever leave without understanding that they must:

1) Repent
2) Be baptized
3) Receive the Holy Ghost (with speaking in tongues as evidence).

What would you do if you felt your pastor did not preach the salvation message as often as you would like?

1) My thoughts are that I'd hate to have to hear you preach!
2) The three things you listed isn't the message of salvation!

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Mr. Smith

1) My thoughts are that I'd hate to have to hear you preach!
2) The three things you listed isn't the message of salvation!

Isn't easier to get saved in this movement than to stay saved?

[berkeley]

poor guy. he thinks this is an apostolic forum.

[Mr. Smith]

Originally Posted by Berkley

poor guy. he thinks this is an apostolic forum.

[seekerman]

Originally Posted by Berkley

poor guy. he thinks this is an apostolic forum.

Some believe that the religious sect of oneness Pentecostalism which began in 1913 is the true Apostolic church too.

[Sherri]

At some point in every Sunday morning service, we give sinners a chance to repent. But we don't preach Acts 2:38 every week. The first step is getting them saved, and then we give them information about baptism and the Holy Ghost.

[DAII]

Originally Posted by Berkley

poor guy. he thinks this is an apostolic forum.

Very much an Apostolic forum, Berk.

You and I know that many at the merger, like Goss, Gurley, Stairs, et al believed those 3 "steps" were not done IN ORDER TO BE SAVED but rather a biblical standard of what a saved person follows... while firmly believing we are regenerated at the point of faith/belief/repentance.

Sherri believes in those 3 steps, for example, in the PCI APOSTOLIC fashion.

[DAII]

We are to preach Christ and him crucified ... the message of the Gospel, the good news of HIS DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION, is evident in all of the paraphrased messages/sermons in the historical narrative of Acts ...

Folks need to come through our doors knowing Jesus Christ is the WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.

I would be disappointed if a message of HOPE and SALVATION in Christ was not preached.

That saved believers were initially and subsequently baptized and are given the gift of the Holy Ghost (eternal life) is believed by an overwhelming majority of Christians.

I am yet to meet a Christian who doesn't believe Acts 2:38.