“I just want you to know, Mr. Washer, 22 people, I believe it was are on their way to heaven now because last night they prayed that little prayer that you are always speaking against.”

And I wrote him back and I said, “I had no idea you were that charismatic.”

And he wrote me back, “Well, I am not charismatic. Why did you say that?”

I said, “Because apart from a supernatural revelation from God, explain to me how you know they were converted.”

And he said, “Well, that is not my job.”

I said, “Then what is your job, sir? Your job is that when you have properly preached the gospel and you have called men to repentance and faith that even though you have surveyed their life for a few hours in counseling, deep counseling, you depart from them with both promises and warnings. Promises that if God truly continues this work, it is evidence that he began it; and warnings that if after this night or after a short period of seeming to walk with Christ they fall away or turn away, it is evidence that nothing happened to them that night.”