Stop Man-Centered Evangelism — E.A. Johnston

A Gospel Tract That Offers False Assurance

I just saw a post on the internet and it made me mad. It was the post of a waiter in a restaurant holding a fake $50 bill and his comments were customer just handed me a folded up $50 as a tip. I hate this place and I hate everyone and I hate myself and he took a picture of the unfolded fake $50 to show it was a gospel tract that said disappointed Jesus won't let you down God provides us with things money can't buy pray to receive Jesus into your heart and then it had the sinner's prayer in John 3 16.

Rejecting Man-Centered Evangelistic Methods

I'd like to do three things in regard to this. First, I'd like to find that waiter and apologize to him and say a real Christian wouldn't stiff you here's $10 to make up for that religious jerk. Secondly, I'd like to find the person who stiffed that waiter and handed out that tract and ask them to stop damaging the cause of Christ with his man-centered evangelism and then I would witness to him because he's probably a lost religious person himself if he thinks that's how a sinner becomes a Christian.

The Harm Caused by Compromised Evangelism

Thirdly, I'd like to contact the tract distributor and get them to stop printing that terrible tract that's doing more harm than good in the world and I'll tell you what friend I wish I could get a cease and desist legal restraint for the churches in America that are compromising the Son of God and damaging the cause of Christ with their man-centered methodologies that are only making lost people religious while damning their souls.

Why Decisions and Prayers Cannot Save

You don't get saved by believing a verse. You don't get saved by repeating a prayer. You don't get saved by making a decision. You don't get saved by walking an aisle. You don't get saved by raising your hand.

Warning Against the Spirit of Antichrist

Where in the world did we ever come up with such nonsense? We need to stop lying to folks especially since the days we are living in are so dark and the spirit of Antichrist is already in the land and a lot of these churches with their man-centered methodologies are just paving the way for Antichrist when he comes.

Proclaiming a God-Centered Gospel

We better get back to real New Testament evangelism and a God-centered gospel that proclaims a bloodstained Christ on a bloody cross for sin and warns men and women and boys and girls of their duty of repentance.

Ruin, Redemption, Repentance, and Regeneration

We must be honest with the souls of men and preach the great doctrines of ruin, redemption, repentance, and regeneration that one cannot see the kingdom of God unless they are born again meaning that Almighty God has performed a work of grace upon the heart in the supernatural act of regeneration by His Spirit and that if anybody is actually saved in our church today it's because God gave them saving faith because salvation is of the Lord.

Sin, Hell, and the Coming Judgment

We desperately need a band of fiery God-called preachers today who aren't afraid to call sin black and hell hot and who will warn this pagan generation of hell-bound sinners that there is a future judgment that awaits all mankind where every mother's son will be held up to the strict and unbinding law of God and if you stand there in your own merits you will surely fail that test for all of sin and come short of the glory of God.

Standing in the Merits of Christ

Your only hope is to stand there in the merits of another, the Lord Jesus Christ, who hung naked on a bloody cross for sinful man. You have to get to the Christ of the Bible and close with Him if you want to avoid a devil's hell.

The Fire of Historic Gospel Preachers

Oh great God, raise up a band of preachers who will preach a God-centered gospel to a Christ-hating generation. We need men, O Lord, such as these at this hour. The Apostle Paul, Luther, Wesley, Whitefield, Knox, Edwards, Spurgeon, Moody, Jones each shared a common denominator of fire in their belly.

They each were so eaten up with the gospel and thirsty for Christ and filled with the Holy Ghost they could not stand idly by while others perished. They saw nothing but eternity, worshipped a holy God and served a risen Christ, living not for earth nor its gains but living only for heaven and its rewards.

Preaching Christ Crucified Without Fear

When they preached they linked the devil with sin and the cross with salvation. They preached hell and its fire and Christ and Him crucified and not one of them feared King, Queen or Pope and not one of them sought the compliments of man.