<P> The writer encourages believers to go beyond a sinner's prayer and "embark on a life fully devoted to the love of God, the love of neighbor, the moral practice of God's will, and radical, costly discipleship". "Love of God" and "Love of neighbor" are the Great Commandments . See also Disciple (Christianity). </P> <P> Does the reciter truly understand what the commitment to Christ really means? Praying a sinner's prayer with someone who isn't genuinely repentant may create a false sense of security in the one reciting it . According to John 6: 44, if a sinner is ready to accept Jesus as Savior, a biblical prerequisite is that the sinner (Christian prospect) has been drawn by the Holy Spirit . </P> <P> Another criticism of the Sinner's Prayer is that passages used to support it actually are not about the lost repeating a prayer in order to become Christians . The Sinner's Prayer is often employed in conjunction with Revelation 3: 20 and Romans 10: 9 - 10, 13 . Revelation 3: 20 is employed to teach that Christ is knocking at the door of one's heart, and when a lost person asks Him to come inside, Jesus comes into the sinner's heart . Romans 10: 9 - 10, 13 are employed to affirm that one must confess with his mouth, that is, say the sinner's prayer, in order to become a Christian . However, the Baptist Greek professor Thomas Ross argues that Revelation 3: 20 is about members of a church turning to the Lord, not about Christ entering into the heart of the lost . He provides 14 reasons that Revelation 3: 20 is not about the lost asking Jesus into their hearts to become saved . He similarly argues that Romans 10: 9 - 14 refers to Christians confessing Christ publicly before men and manifesting a life of prayer, rather than to the lost becoming saved by a one - time repetition of the Sinner's Prayer . </P> <P> Another form of this criticism of the sinner's prayer states that simply praying the sinner's prayer does not actually grant salvation to the one praying . One essay on the topic from the "Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry" asserts that "The' Sinner's Prayer' is, today, an effective tool of Satan to dupe people into believing they are saved when they are not". </P>

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