I can't say that I've ever suggested to anyone, "ask Jesus into your heart". Rather, it seems that David's approach is what we see in Scripture. There are different ways, of course, that this comes up in conversation with people - but the image of "asking Jesus" into my heart is one of my being in control, and my making the invitation, in the hopes that Jesus might stoop to come in. It seems far more reasonable to discuss with people the state of their soul outside of Christ, the severity of God's justice, and the magnificence and bounty of His grace... and to offer to them that Jesus died to atone for the sins of people like them; and that those who repent of themselves, their lives, and their sin, and come to Him in faith will in no wise be cast out.

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Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
http://semperubi.rtrc.net

"Many men, after a long conversion, see more of the workings of sin in their hearts than ever they did before or at their first conversion. Now, such men have not an increase of sin, but an increase of illumination and light" (Christopher Love)


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