{"id":178,"date":"2010-06-28T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/06\/166-the-sinners-prayer.html"},"modified":"2010-06-28T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T18:00:58","slug":"166-the-sinners-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/06\/166-the-sinners-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"#166 The Sinner&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"377\" alt=\"FinalVerbiage_Img0068_car.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/sinnersprayer\/FinalVerbiage_Img0068_car.jpg\" width=\"513\" \/><\/span><br \/>The sinner&#8217;s prayer&nbsp;is an assortment of confessions that Christian culture deems necessary for salvation.&nbsp;Not to be confused with the Lord&#8217;s Prayer, the Sinner&#8217;s Prayer is not found in the Bible. <\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"359\" alt=\"FinalVerbiage_2Part_w_praythislicenseplate.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/sinnersprayer\/FinalVerbiage_2Part_w_praythislicenseplate.jpg\" width=\"542\" \/><\/span><br \/>The sinner&#8217;s prayer is Christian culture&#8217;s litmus test for salvation. &#8220;Have you prayed the Sinner&#8217;s Prayer?&#8221; is the ultimate question for those&nbsp;unsure of&nbsp;their eternal repository. If death is imminent, this is the type of prayer an evangelical would guide you through. In this sense it is like the Catholics&#8217; last rites, but an evangelical wouldn&#8217;t cop to this. We&#8217;ve already discussed how they feel about Catholics (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/08\/95-being-skeptical-that-catholics-are-saved.html\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sinner\u2019s prayer is Christian culture&#8217;s litmus test for salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,83,2,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-formulas","category-prayer","category-the-sinners-prayer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#166 The Sinner&#039;s Prayer - Stuff Christian Culture Likes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/06\/166-the-sinners-prayer.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#166 The Sinner&#039;s Prayer - 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