A good number of Christians are prayer warriors. We love prayers. Some of us can pray in tongues for hours. But there are times our prayers shouldn’t be all about submitting to God a list of things we want Him to do for us—or rattling in tongues for ten hours. There are times we should humbly go on our knees to ask for God’s forgiveness. There is power in prayer for repentance.
Some Christians believe that the only time people are to ask for forgiveness of their sins should be when they’re getting saved—that moment when they decide to submit their lives to Jesus Christ. This school of thought holds that a Christian is eternally forgiven [once saved always saved]—irrespective of how they choose to live their life after salvation. They believe that it is needless to pray for forgiveness of sins over and over again.
While this ideology sounds easy and nice, it is totally erroneous; we cannot endorse it as the truth. The doctrine of eternal security, like a serpent,…
