Eats with Sinners

Recently, I have come across some remarkable information on a certain church that will be kept anonymous. Apparently the church is attempting to conjure up a strategy to hire a new senior minister. Some of the qualifications for this novel position are good administering skills, sound preaching, and a spiritually mature person with a proven track record of winning the lost. The latter part of that sentence is taken directly from their profile.

Is it me or does this sound dubious? I have sat and pondered on the line “mature person with a proven track record of winning the lost”. Chewing on this filth has made my mind go crazy and has left me sick to my stomach. This is the most outlandish, ridiculous, and obtuse statement anyone could say to another.

Who has a track record? Do people have a little black book with intricate detail on how and when they saved somebody? Has our minds been diluted with piety? If one does have a “track record”, then it seems like his or her heart is attenuated to be a mere Pharisee. Is there something to boast about when you win someone over? “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are liked whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.”

Can someone actually say I have an excellent “track record” of saving people from the damnation of hell? This is preposterous! Only God can save someone and have a track record that is kept in the “book of life”. Any other book is a mockery to the saving power of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only person who is deemed worthy to have a track record of winning the lost.

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