Full Quiver wrote:Paul, no offense but let's not leave out the most important thing in the salvation experience or two step program. That being the drawing of the Holy Ghost; no man comes to the father except He bee drawn by the Lord.
People are confessing and "believing" all the time but no change is taking place because they are not getting saved.
FQ, that is God's part....our part is still the process of confessing and believing.
Same as the Holy Spirit; God's part is that he made it available as a gift to us....our part is that we must ask him for it and receive it.
Luk 11:11 And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?
Luk 11:12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Luk 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Paul set the principle clearly concerning the Harvest.
Our Part: To plant (sow) water....God's part, He will give the increase
1Co 3:4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
1Co 3:5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
1Co 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
As far as the Billy Graham Crusades...if only 1/1000th were real its more than all of us on this board have accomplished combined.(soul winning)