Paul Washer: What is Salvation?

Many of you know from a previous post that I have recently discovered the preaching of Paul Washer. Well I have been going on YouTube and watching many of his sermons which a man named Lane Chaplin (?) has posted. His channel on YouTube is awesome and I highly recommend it.

Anyhow, I just viewed this video below and I was totally wowed by it. Please watch it and ponder his words because this man is truly being used by God in a mighty way. Here is a man who loves the Lord with all his heart and who has a passion for preaching the Word. If six minutes is too long for you to sit and watch a video, then at least focus on what he says between 3:55 and 4:15 to start. Truly Mr. Washer understands the pitfalls of a seeker sensitive church!

If you have even more time, please watch 5:00 through 5:57, where he asks..."what is salvation?" In it he takes on "the little tracks that have been developed by men who do not know theology...[and] the evangelists who hardly study their Bibles...[and] church growth movements that are based on wall street marketing schemes..." Sound familiar to any of you? Recognize your churches here? It is pathetic, isn't it? Sad that so many churches have indeed started relying on the methods of business rather then on the power of the Living God.

Indeed, one of my greatest frustrations is those pesky evengi-cubes! Nothing more clearly reveals how little we think of the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation than this cube. Having problems communicating? Show them a picture! And I would have no problem with this cube if it was used solely in ministering to people whose language you don't speak (though in that case why not let the native speakers do the work?), but when I first saw this thing introduced at my old church it was in the context of witnessing to friends and neighbors. So yeah, let's just tell those we love that we think they are unable to read words in a Bible and now need pictures with arrows and no words! That's definitely guaranteed to soften a hearer to the Gospel right?

But I digress...

Just watch and enjoy the video. Be prepared to be convicted and exhorted all at once! :)