Revival's Golden Key by Ray Comfort

which so many have fallen after putting on the Lord Jesus Christ using the fast-folding method:
    ■     In a 1990 crusade in the U.S., 600 decisions were obtained. No doubt there was much rejoicing. However, ninety days later, follow-up workers couldn’t find even one who was continuing in his or her faith. That crusade created 600 “backsliders,” or to be more scriptural, “false converts.”
    ■    In Cleveland, Ohio, in an “Inner City Outreach,” rejoicing no doubt tapered when those who were involved in follow-up once again couldn’t find one of the 400 who had made a decision.
    ■     In 1985, a four-day crusade obtained 217 decisions, but according to a member of the organizing committee, ninety-two percent fell away.
    ■    Charles E. Hackett, the Division of Home Missions National Director for the Assemblies of God in the U.S., said, “A soul at the altar does not generate much excitement in some circles because we realize approximately ninety-five out of every hundred will not become integrated into the church. In fact, most of them will not return for a second visit.”
    ■     In his book Today’s Evangelism, Ernest C. Reisinger said of one outreach, “It lasted eight days, and there were sixty-eight supposed conversions.” A month later, not one of the “converts” could be found.
    ■     In 1991, organizers of a Salt Lake City concert encouraged follow-up. They said, “Less than five percent of those who respond to an altar call during a public crusade... are living a Christian life one year later.” In other words, more than ninety-five percent proved to be false converts.
    ■     A pastor in Boulder, Colorado, sent a team to Russia in 1991 and attained 2,500 decisions. The next year, they found that only 30 were going on in their faith. That’s a little more than a one-per-cent retention rate.
    ■    In Leeds, England, a visiting U.S. speaker acquired 400 decisions for a local church. However, six weeks later only two were going on, and they eventually fell away.
    ■     A mass crusade reported 18,000 decisions, yet according to Church Growth magazine, tragically ninety-four percent failed to even become incorporated into a local church.
    ■    In November 1970, a number of churches combined for a convention in Fort Worth, Texas, and secured 30,000 decisions. Six months later, the follow-up committee could find only 30 going on in their faith.
    ■    In Sacramento, California, a combined crusade yielded over 2,000 commitments. One church followed up 52 of those decisions and couldn’t find one conversion.
    ■     A leading U.S. denomination published that during 1995 they secured 384,057 decisions, but retained only 22,983 in fellowship. They couldn’t account for 361,074 supposed conversions. That’s a ninety'four percent fallaway rate.
    ■    In Omaha, Nebraska, a pastor of a large church said he was involved with a crusade where 1,300 decisions were made, and not even one “convert” continued in his or her faith.
    ■    Pastor Dennis Grenell from Auckland, New Zealand, who has traveled to India every year since 1980, reported that he saw 80,000 decision cards stacked in a hut in the city of Rajamundry , the “results” of past evangelistic crusades. But he maintained that one would be fortunate to find even 80 Christians in the entire city.
    ■    In the March/April 1993 American Horizon, the National Director of Home Missions of a major U.S. denomination disclosed the fact that in 1991,
    11,500 churches had obtained 294,784 decisions for Christ. Unfortunately, they could find only 14,337 in fellowship. That means that (no doubt despite the usual intense follow-up) they couldn’t account for approximately 280,000 of their decisions.
    ■     A major Christian television network broadcast an interview with a Russian Christian leader on
    July 5, 1996. She said of Russian converts, “Many thousands have received salvation