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From the page: "We are not saved by faith, nor by works, or even by a combination of the two; rather, we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and will therefore demonstrate that salvation is present within us by living in obedience to His voice. (Php. 2:12). This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. And I am not ashamed to share it with you, because, "it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes" (Romans 1:16 NKJV)"

From the Pastor's study: "Unsaved people (who are often religious) may confess that a person is saved by grace through faith, but they often contradict themselves by saying that WORKS are ALSO necessary for a person to be saved or to STAY saved.

This teaching is clearly contrary to scripture, as is seen in Rom. 11:6, which says, "And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." (Romans 11:6) Salvation must, therefore, be either by grace or works. It cannot be by grace AND works.

Saved people realize that a person is saved by grace through faith, WITHOUT works, for the Bible says, 8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2)

Saved people also realize that the object of saving faith is the Lord Jesus Christ, and in particular, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, even as the apostle Paul wrote, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." (Romans 1:16)

However, there are saved people who, although they recognize these truths, also claim that a person is saved by saying "THE SINNER'S PRAYER."

Well, which is it?

Is a person saved through faith, through prayer, through a prayer of faith, through faith in a prayer, all of the above, or none of the above?.......................

THE CONDITION OF THOSE WHO PRAY TO BE SAVED

When a person examines the scriptures, he is jolted by the fact that NOBODY in the Bible asked Jesus to come into his heart. NO unbeliever in the Bible asked God to save him for Christ's sake. NO soul-winner instructed a sinner in the New Testament to pray in order to become a Christian.

He learns that Rev. 3:20 was not an instruction to an unsaved man to invite Jesus into his heart, but rather for a saved man in a local church to open the door for the Lord Jesus to have communion with him.

He realizes that TRADITION was what caused him to believe that a person was saved through prayer. He realizes that TRADITION was what caused him to use "the sinner's prayer" in soul-winning.

If he was himself led to the Lord in prayer, he might well question his OWN standing before God. Can a person be saved who prayed "the sinner's prayer?"

It is an unfair conclusion to say that EVERYONE who prayed at his time of "conversion" is lost.

However, God's word teaches that a person is NOT saved by prayer, but through faith. Now, pay attention: if a person trusted in God's answering his prayer rather than in the substitutionary death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, he DID NOT pass from death unto life. If he is saved now, he became saved subsequent to his prayer, at the point he put faith in the gospel. It is doubtful that many Christians were saved at the very moment they CLAIM that they got saved.

A person who is still depending upon his prayer is unsaved to this day."

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

--President Ronald Reagan

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

--President Ronald Reagan

From the report: "Dunn leaving White House, Pfeiffer takes over

White House communications director Anita Dunn will step down from her post at the end of the month and Dan Pfeiffer, her deputy, will take over, according to sources familiar with the move.

Dunn, a longtime Democratic media consultant, took over the job on an interim basis earlier this year when Ellen Moran abruptly left the post to take a job at the Commerce Department. Dunn will return to Squier Knapp Dunn, the consulting firm where she is a partner, but will remain as a consultant to the White House on the communications and strategic matters.

The move will be formally announced later today."-----------------------------------------------------------She ought to be remembered for her praise of the most brutal regimes of communist history.
See: White House Communications Director Anita Dunn Loves Mao Zedong youtube.com/watch [youtube.com/watch]

She was not an exception. Expect nothing less from Obama appointees in the future.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn Loves Mao Zedong

Why Obama's lieutenants love Mao

Now, why would this account be "under review"?!? A black conservative, a minority freedom lover, how is that considered undesirable in SU land?!?
But the spammers, the network traffic schlocks, they seem to be ok

Gimme a break.

EDIT 11/10/09 Seems his Su account has been unlocked. The "review" by Su results in his account being allowed to be seen again. however, he's not been logged on for eight months. Hope he returns, meanwhile I hope his blog will continue.

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Now, why would this account be "under review"?!? A black conservative, a minority freedom lover, how is that considered undesirable in SU land?!?
But the spammers, the network traffic schlocks, they seem to be ok

Gimme a break.

EDIT 11/10/09 Seems his Su account has been unlocked. The "review" by Su results in his account being allowed to be seen again. however, he's not been logged on for eight months. Hope he returns, meanwhile I hope his blog will continue.