And they continued steadfastly (Acts 2:42) - That is to say, they did not backslide. The real reason there are so many backsliders is because there are so many who have never had a forward slide to Jesus Christ.

Oswald J. Smith
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  3. To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.
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  5. God can accomplish more through one message in the fulness of the Spirit than through hundreds given in the energy of the flesh.
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