Follow-up Evangelism!

I just thought I'd give a shot on what I'd call as follow up evangelism.  What would that be about?  I was thinking I was listening to Pastor Paul Washer's sermon "A Biblical Alternative to the Sinner's Prayer."  Listen, salvation is NOT as easy as getting a ticket from a train station or renewal of a government license because signing a dotted line, just reciting a few words of "repeat after me" type of evangelism is SLOPPY.  Yes, salvation is without works, man does not work for their salvation but there is the difficult part of it.  What's the difficult part of salvation if salvation is without works?  The problems are of course pride and the love for sin (John 3:18-20) which makes it incredibly hard to believe by human standards. 

I was thinking of Ray Comfort's Youtube videos on "True and False Conversion"  and "Hell's Best Kept Secret" to which he and Kirk Cameron discuss the recent number of false conversions.  Seriously I do agree with this statement that salvation is NOT found in a decision card today gone tomorrow.  True converts do not just sign a decision card and then return to their old lives.  True converts get a radical change (1 Corinthians 6:11, 2 Corinthians 5:17).  They get saved and one of the results are either they come back to the church where they heard the Gospel or to some other Christian community.  They have the desire for fellowship even if they are forbidden by their families.  They want to please God.  They feel bad if they backslide for long periods of time.  That is what evidences true conversion, not going back to the old lifestyle.  A conversion is a conversion- conversion LEADS to change!!!!

I just began to think of Pastor Paul Washer's approach to a dying man who had only three weeks to live.  Now this is real follow-up evangelism- he didn't just introduce the man to a simple prayer.  Instead, he really explained what repentance truly was and really read the man the Bible through and through.  The dying man understood this- he is a sinner in need of a Savior.  After seeing who Jesus is and reading through John 3:16, he finally said, "My hands are clean."  Pastor Paul Washer in this follow-up evangelism wanted to test the man said, "How can you say that?"  The dying man said, "Haven't you read John 3:16?"  Well after all, a man's heart needs to broken, softened, the bedrock removed, the weeds removed, the thorns removed because all these are what makes it for man hard to believe the Gospel which was illustrated in my example.  Only when a man's heart is softened, it becomes the good soil, only then can the seed be planted.  However some people will choose to remain stubborn about conversion, it's their problem.