It's time for the Soteriology 101 podcast, where God is most glorified by his love and provision for all people.

Welcome your host.

The director of apologetics for Texas Baptists, an adjunct professor of theology, and a local teaching pastor.

Dr. Layton Flowers.

Hello, and welcome to Sotriology 101. Before we jump in and talk

about Paul Washer and his view on the prayer of salvation or inviting Jesus into your heart

and listening to some of the comments that he makes, which, you know, really I agree with much of what Paul Washer is about to say.

I think he probably goes to an extreme and uses hyperbole. As often is the case when we, as

preachers are trying to make a valid point about something, sometimes we throw out the baby with

the bathwater. I think that that's a little bit of what you'll see from Paul washer here in this segment that we're going to go through because I want us to have a proper

balance of understanding what it means to invite Jesus into your heart. And insert terminology

that we have adopted over the years for whatever reason and the abuses of such things

like public invitations and things of that nature.

And how should we respond as Christians from even a traditional perspective of what is the

right way to respond and not to overreact to things that sometimes maybe we have adopted

from a tradition versus from what the scriptures actually teach.

And before we dive in there, I want to point out a few things. I've got the

the sociology website up here, as you can see. Every one of these screens here represent an article,

and many of them have a podcast attached to them as well.

And there's hundreds of different articles, some of which, most of which I've written,

obviously, but then some of which are guest authors that I've put on the blog site.

And I wanted to point this out because I get probably about 15 requests a day asking for resources or asking,

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