Evangelist Ray Comfort Explains Why He Never Leads People in the SINNER'S PRAYER

           

Ray Comfort is a New Zealand Born Evangelist, He is known for his street evangelism asking  people about God, the Bible, sin and salvation. Recently, a commenter on Facebook posed a question to him asking Ray why he never leads people into prayer even after telling them  about Jesus Christ

The commenter wrote;

You often have them at the point of belief but then don't allow them, or encourage them, to confess. You do great work to get them to believe, and yet not confess. If you don't want to lead them in a prayer, which is what people do when they exchange vows at a wedding, why not encourage them to pray their own prayer? Help them if they need it, but why not?

Ray Comfort replied with a video message

to provide understanding  as to why he doesn't lead people in the "sinner's prayer" so he tagged it.

I regularly pray with people off camera. But I think you are talking about leading people is what is often called a “Sinner’s Prayer.” It’s similar to the difference between a “shotgun” wedding, and one where the bride and groom make vows because they want to. Many who make “decisions for Christ” nowadays are shotgun weddings. They are manipulated by man rather than born of God, and it has filled our churches with false converts ray explained.

He further sited an example of a husband and wife who are at odds. He explained that leading someone in the "sinner's prayer" is similar to him walking up to the house of the fighting couple with the husband, then ringing the bell and telling the wife that her husband was terribly sorry and then proceeding to lead the husband in an apology to his wife.

That kind of apology would not be sincere or genuine since it's not coming directly from the heart of the husband. He likened that scenario to the way one should pray and repent of their sins on their own to God and not be led by someone else he said.

Ray's evangelism videos can be seen on
YouTube.