Examples?

I've been reading again.

 

Jesus said:

 

John 6:44 

"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him."

 

And

 

John 14:6   

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." 

 

In his commentary, Matthew Henry explains the Father draws people when:

 

The discovery of their guilt, danger, and remedy, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, makes men willing and glad to come, and to give up every thing which hinders applying to him for salvation.

 

Today people want to be immersed to join the church or to become a Christian or because they want a close relationship with the called out etc. It seems people are immersed today with different motives than what Matthew Henry suggests.

 

If, what appear to be Christians, never experience the feeling of being lost, unsaved, separated from the Father what motivates them to evangelize? Have they followed the examples in the book of Acts? Has the Father added them to the number being saved?

 

Can we fulfill a New Testament example for different reasons and get the same results as they did? If we are immersed to join the church have we received the forgiveness of our sins and received the gift of the Holy Spirit?

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