False Conversion
My daughter asked me the other day about a friend that had accepted Christ but still did bad things and enjoyed doing them. Are they a believer? What a question from an 11 year old!! My answer is this: When someone around us leaves their faith (this is what it seems to us) and will not be recovered or will not return, they did not lose their salvation they thought they had; they DID NOT passionately and with complete surrender receive or possess the gift of salvation through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ in the first place. They assumed that they were converted, but in reality, they werent. 19 They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us. 1 John 2:19 (NASB95) John is writing here that "they would have remained"....if they really were part of us, part of the body of Christ. Why does this happen: 1. Preachers are presenting ...