In Soulwinning, People MUST Be Confronted About Sin

I am tired of hearing this, "Well we mus not confront people about their sins." That is wrong, plain wrong. If one looks at the Bible, you'll see Christ confronts people about their sin before He gives the Gospel message. Although the use of offensive means like heckling and insulting is not called for, people must be confronted about the issue of sin. In John 4:1-26 it was no soft and easy message, Jesus showed the woman she was a sinner by bringing up the issue of her five failed marriages and current concubinage, in short, she was an adulteress. In the four Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John we also read that John the Baptist did not hesitate to criticize Herodias of her adulterous relationship with Herod Antipas for leaving her husband for another man's husband even if it meant his head could be chopped off. Question is unless people are confronted about their sins, how in the world do they realize they need a Savior?

Ray Comfort's evangelistic preaching pattern of using the Law is certainly proper and biblical soulwinning. In his own little way, he had shown man's need for forgiveness by confronting them about their sin and showing them how lost and in need of forgiveness they are. In fact, people must understand they are sinners before they can understand the facts of the Roman Road like "you are a sinner". John F. Macarthur's book "The Gospel According to Jesus" describes what's wrong with today's evangelistic meetings while showing the need to show people their sinfulness, fail to address sin completely with just telling them "you are a sinner" without really convincing them they are. Paul Washer's preaching methods against sin seek to soften the heart of the believer rather than let them follow the "1-2-3 repeat after me" easy prayerism which leads to false conversions. In fact, I am declaring war against seeker-sensitive evangelism which has sent people to Hell more than anything else today! Based on my experience, I have seen people just pray a sinner's prayer but guess what, they were never converted. They remained in false religion and some are even members of Masonic lodges or you could consider a lot of false conversions like living sinfully. Although I don't believe Christians can be sinlessly perfect, they do sin but they do not sin indefinitely and live carnally for the rest of their lives! They may suffer from carnality but not be enslaved by it!

People must be broken and be willing to turn from sin before they can even see their need to be saved from it. In fact, not preaching to the people about their sins and showing them they are in need of forgiveness results to many false conversions because churches today are afraid to preach the Gospel as it should be. Ray Comfort's preaching of true and false conversions and the use of the Ten Commandments, I would see how that really shows people their need for salvation. Sad to say, some people today are like Ahab, Jezebel, the rebellious Jews, or even the adulterous Herodias but so what? People need to be offended by the sharp truth in order to see they need salvation to get a true conversion. Why people don't want the Gospel because it confronts them about their sin like how Herodias ended up ordering the execution of John the Baptist so nobody could criticize her of her adultery. Elijah had criticized Ahab and Jezebel of their sins to remind them Baal won't save them and only God will. However we see the error of Jehoshaphat's being seeker-sensitive towards Ahab when he decided not to confront the king about his wickedness but instead entered into an alliance that brought Athaliah into the House of Judah, an action that nearly killed the royal lineage save Joash who continued the Messianic Line of David.

In fact a great example of this using the Law and confronting about sin can be like this. One might end up in a Roman Catholic home displayed with idols and maybe the ones living together in one roof are might have left their spouses for each other. Just leading them to a 1-2-3 repeat after me evangelism leads to a false conversion, they fall away because they hate to listen to the pastor and go back to their sinful ways. The Herodias of the house might say, "Well nothing is wrong with what I do. God didn't will man to be alone so I am here to keep him company. Who are you to judge my live-in relationship is wrong? Judge not and you will not be judged." Then after they are confronted by the Ten Commandments showing they are wrong like they have broken the second commandment on graven images and the seventh on adultery, or the fifth because they have dishonored their parents with what they did, then evangelization follows. This, of course, does not guarantee conversion from the person but it can protect the local Christian churches from false conversions or people who do not belong to Christ's Church but are merely pretenders or sit-ins. But chances are in this kind of preaching if the two decide to really get converted it will result to a true conversion that after they receive Christ by faith, these two will set ways, make amends to the spouses they have left and