Quote (12) - John MacArthur

Millions name the name of Jesus but it is a shallow shifting sand and when they don’t get their instant upper from Jesus anymore and they don’t get the jollies and the kicks they thought they were going to get their house begins to collapse and they look for another sandy place to build another house that isn’t going to stand either. Christianity has become so superficial it just galls me to hear some of the presentations of Christ that are supposed to be legitimate.

Sermons that have absolutely nothing to do with the Gospel and then you give an invitation at the end and people are accepting who knows what. There’s no deep plowing, there’s no spade work, there’s no foundation, there’s no brokenness of heart.

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Now what does it mean to dig deep? First of all it means you’re not in a hurry, no quickie conversion, no light confession. One writer has said, “There are some people who say they are saved before they have any sense that they’re even lost.” And I have said in the past that some people present the Gospel so poorly that even the nonelect don’t know enough to reject it. Those who claim Christ as their own are willing to dig deep, they have thought out the responsibility, they don’t rush into some profession later to rush out of it again, or be thrown out in final judgment, they count the cost, they consider what they’re doing, there is a digging deep there’s not a hurry.