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Posted for informational purposes - not intended as an endorsement of everything in the article or everything that David Cloud has ever written.
"The effect of Highland Park's missionary conferences was electrifying. Hundreds of men and women surrendered to the call of God and preached the Gospel throughout the earth. It was estimated that 30 to 35% of Temple graduates went into missionary work. . . .
"The problem is that Highland Park Baptist was 100% into Quick Prayerism and the numbers racket and the puffed up church membership statistics, and this was the program that was copied by most of the graduates. . . .
"The church operated 45 bus routes that ran as far as 90 miles from Chattanooga! A joke in those days was, 'Did you know that one of Highland Park’s buses crashed into one of Jack Hyles’ buses this week? Yeah, the accident was in Kentucky!'. . .
"But the way the bus ministry was operated at Highland Park and many other fundamental Baptist churches in that day was more like a three-ring circus. The focus was a quick, shallow gospel presentation, getting people to pray a sinner’s prayer and counting these as salvations, giving assurance to people who showed no evidence that they were born again. When I worked in the bus ministry, there was no serious discipleship of those who prayed the prayers."
"The effect of Highland Park's missionary conferences was electrifying. Hundreds of men and women surrendered to the call of God and preached the Gospel throughout the earth. It was estimated that 30 to 35% of Temple graduates went into missionary work. . . .
"The problem is that Highland Park Baptist was 100% into Quick Prayerism and the numbers racket and the puffed up church membership statistics, and this was the program that was copied by most of the graduates. . . .
"The church operated 45 bus routes that ran as far as 90 miles from Chattanooga! A joke in those days was, 'Did you know that one of Highland Park’s buses crashed into one of Jack Hyles’ buses this week? Yeah, the accident was in Kentucky!'. . .
"But the way the bus ministry was operated at Highland Park and many other fundamental Baptist churches in that day was more like a three-ring circus. The focus was a quick, shallow gospel presentation, getting people to pray a sinner’s prayer and counting these as salvations, giving assurance to people who showed no evidence that they were born again. When I worked in the bus ministry, there was no serious discipleship of those who prayed the prayers."
