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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 125 - How to Reach Those Who Have Strayed From the Faith

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, the guys discuss how to reach those who have strayed from the faith. The majority of people who have “backslidden” actually had a false conversion to begin with. This does not refer to the times in which a Christian struggles with his faith. There are many, unfortunately, who profess to know Christ but really do not. The longer we walk with the Lord, the more stories like this we will be able to recall. There are gateway sins which open the door to stray further fro...

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there's so much content out there that could fill the world with books in terms of excuses

0:05.6

that people make for why they stray from the Lord or why they compromise or why they dabble.

0:13.6

Is it just human nature to do that, to keep ourselves comfortable? And

0:18.8

he's our conscience? Well, I'm often hit people that backslide say something like, I still pray.

0:23.9

I still pray. And I read something that JC Riles said that I have to qualify because of what he says,

0:29.5

backsliding generally first begins with an neglect of private prayer. I say, yeah, I am in

0:34.9

a bit of qualification. I read this morning that most Americans pray, this is in a typical week,

0:40.3

two out of three American adults, 66% pray at least once, another one of 10 adults prays at least once

0:46.3

a month, and one of seven, 15% say they never pray, which means 85% Americans pray. But what happens

0:53.5

is the prayers become selfish prayers. That's what the Bible says, the backslider on heart shall be

0:59.0

filled with its own ways. And that's exactly what happens with someone who keeps praying because

1:04.5

conscience doesn't know God exists, but it's a God of their own imagination and the prayers are selfish.

1:08.9

W-W-W-W-Yes, Ray, Mark, and Oscar still type that in before every domain name they input,

1:22.2

and they always say, W-W-W-W whenever they share a domain name with others.

1:27.4

There'll be no liars there, easy. Nonetheless, I digress. W-W-W, the world wide web, FYI,

1:35.1

that's what W-W stands for, Ray, Mark, and Oscar. I digress again. The world wide web, guys, is

1:41.9

full of all sorts of evils, but one amazing, wonderful, beautiful thing that it has given us is

1:49.2

videos that tickle us, pink, and every other color imaginable. And speaking of pink, one of those

1:55.9

videos is pinkie. Oh, that's really old, I've seen it years ago. Ray, you made me laugh.

2:04.8

I made me laugh. I don't think I ever seen this one. Oh, come on, Oscar. It's very fast. Mark,

2:10.0

you've seen pinkie the cat. Nope. I have not, but I have been reading our podcast reviews lately and

2:16.6

we should get into those in a little bit. Oh, no, no, no, we'll be pinkie for a minute. Can you

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