He preached a simple salvation message and won thousands of souls.
He wasn’t opposed to it, but he didn’t preach it. I knew a minister, mightily used of God, a great soul winner, who in his mid-50s came down with a severe heart condition. Now-it is possible to act on mental agreement. Weymouth’s translation makes it more clear, “Faith without corresponding actions is dead.”įaith is an act. Well, after all, James said that faith without works is dead (James 2:17). He said he would run over to one side of the platform and say, with his English pronunciation “Faith is an act.” Then he would run over to the opposite side of the platform and say, “Faith is an act.” He might do this several times. He told of how Wigglesworth would hammer this thought home: Faith is an act. As a young man he knew Smith Wigglesworth well. Charles Duncombe, able minister and Bible teacher who now writes a regular column for “Christ For The Nations” magazine, is from England. Mental agreement simply recognizes the truthfulness of the Word it does not act upon it.ĭr. The mental assentor sees what God’s Word says, admires what God’s Word says, but usually winds up saying, “For some reason, it doesn’t work for me.”įaith is acting on God’s Word. I believe every word is so.” Yet when the crises of life come to that person and they say, “It doesn’t work for me,” it cannot be faith.
It sounds terribly religious and awfully good for someone to say, “I believe the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The mental assentor agrees that the Bible is a revelation from God-that every word in it is true.
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