These churches teach that salvation does not come by praying, nor does assurance come from remembering that one prayed a вЂњsinners prayer.вЂќ They teach that directing the lost to ask Jesus into their hearts in order to be saved does not help anyone understand the gospel, but actually creates tremendous confusion and large numbers of people who are not truly Christians but think that they are because they have performed a man-made religious ritual. If the lost trust in Christ while praying, that is wonderful if they trust in Christ without praying, that is equally wonderful. Consequently, the lost do not need to ask Jesus into their hearts, confess anything with their mouths, or pray anything whatever in order to become Christians-they simply need to trust in Christ to save them from the penalty and power of their sin. On the other hand, many Bible-believing and practicing churches teach that salvation is by repentant faith alone in Christ. People who say the sinners prayer or ask Jesus into their hearts are then given assurance of salvation because of what they just did. Many more have taught, claiming Romans 10:9-10 and 10:13 as support, that one must pray and ask to be saved by confessing Jesus with oneвЂ™s mouth and calling upon him in a вЂњsinners prayer,вЂќ as well as believing in Him, and after one both believes and then asks to be saved he is forgiven of his sins. Will I Be Saved if I Ask Jesus to Come into my Heart or Repeat the Sinners Prayer?Д¬ountless multitudes of people in Christendom, especially evangelicals and fundamentalists, have taught that the way to be saved is to pray and ask Jesus into oneвЂ™s heart, quoting Revelation 3:20.

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