Hyper Evangelism - (2) The Evangelistic Practices of D L Moody Examined

Horatius Bonar took issue with this book. Claiming it undermined the freeness of the gospel. But it was the way the gospel was presented that was at issue. By the 1860s when this book was published, evangelistic practices left out such truths as God's Sovereignty, the use of the moral law in conviction, and mention of total inability, and substituted the practice of pressing for instant decisions. Any warnings against false conversions. Coming to Christ to escape hell rather than to committing to a life of self denial and picking up the cross to follow Him. Giving the new convert something to do before the novice spent any time alone with God in his new conversion. What was missing was a "slough of despond" or a Mr. Legality prior to conversion, and a house of the interpreter and instructions about the Christian warfare after conversion.