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"I" had nothing to do with my salvation either. A dead man loves his sin too much to turn to Christ, to wit: As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Romans 3:10-12) Your comment about "soul winning" reminds me of an old man I knew from church when I was a boy. He always kept a stack of tracts in his pocket and hung around the parking lots liquor stores, bars, and pool halls in search of sinners. Each time he found someone to say the sinners prayer he would come back to church and tell the story. He usually said something like "I saved another one." Even as a child that made me cringe. I didn't know much, but I knew that if God had not saved the man, he wasn't saved. As for being a Methodist, I have known many faithful Methodists in my life. And you know, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great 19th century baptist preacher, came to Christ one Sunday morning when he ducked into a little Methodist chapel to escape a snow storm. I know lots of Methodists are apostate, but so are lots of Presbyterians and Baptists. I don't know for sure, but I believe my cousin and her husband are lost. They seem to turn what is good into evil and evil into good. He's a Baptist seminary professor who has probably forgotten more Scripture than I will ever know. However, they turned down the wrong path long ago when he decided the Bible couldn't be trusted, she went along with him.

The allure of human divinity is strong. Rob Bell of Mars Hill seems to have been sucked in by it. If they find something in the Bible that they don’t like, they immediately assume the Bible is the problem. That’s how several denominations could believe that Jesus turned water into grape juice at Cana or ordain women/divorced people. They are so self-centered, they believe themselves over the Bible.

“Any man who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven”