4 Reasons Why New Converts Easily Backslides

The doctrine of once saved always saved is satanic and deceptive. It is Satan’s way of making the church ineffective as the people that are baptized into the faith will gradually lose the truth and abandon the faith because it makes them to be relaxed with the motive “I am saved” after all what else is important.

There are two books where the deeds of man are written; the book of life and the book of death. There is no name that is written with a permanent marker. What keep your name in any of the books is your deeds. Though your name was written in the book of life, once you commit evil, automatically your name disappears from the book of life and appears in the book of death and vice versa (Ps. 69:18, 1 John 3:8, Rev. 20:12; 22:19).

The feeling that salvation gives to a believer is always overwhelming: I felt loosed, like I was freed from a very heavy weight.” confessed a friend after conversion. This feeling do not just come alone, it comes with a complete irritation of the world. Government and activities all look corrupted. The desire for immediate rapture so you can escape this corruption and rest in peace with God forever in holiness overwhelms you.

1.     Not Finding More Truth

 The only thing we can use to blunt Satan’s weapon is by knowing the truth, believing the truth and activating the truth in our lives. No one of us can deny that our ideology of life when we were yet fifteen year old is different now that we are adult. Analogically that is what happens to us when we are newly born into God’s family. Our perception, believe and understanding concerning the race has to go through stages of maturity until we are good enough to handle certain matters.

New converts often over look this part. They are often carried away concentrating only on the words they heard from the beginning. Most often if any new knowledge must come in, it must be from their so believed mentors.

The scripture tells to “…know the truth and the truth shall set you free” (John 8:32). At any time that you are equipped with the truth, you cannot be thrown off balance even if lies and deceptions are making waves. If Jesus Himself didn’t know the truth He would have been thrown off balance with the temptation at the pinnacle involving scriptural quotation from Satan himself. (John 4:9-12).

Most new converts gets satisfied with what they have heard and believed without making way for more truth so that they can overcome the roaring lion seeking whom to devour when he comes. The truth we had from the beginning as new converts is small compare to what is coming ahead.

2.     Relaxation After Few Victories

No doubt new converts are always powerful Christians. If there are any set of Christians that can disgrace the devil, it is new converts. Where the problems often come from is their ability to keep that fire burning. As children in the lord that they are, they are always overwhelmed seeing God’s manifestations through their own selves, as a result they think they have made it hence they relax. Sadly, this is the beginning of their fall, because the fire in them also will be become relaxed (cold). This same thing happened to Christ’s disciples; “The seventy returned with joy saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.” Luke 10:17. Consequently the disciples that thought that they have made it have gone back to their former states. “From that time, many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.” John 6:66. Quench not the spirit.

3. Weakness After Few Failures

Paul’s statement to the Corinthians was; “I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it…” (1 Cor. 3:2). New converts are endowed with great powers and abilities as it is written “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power… even to them that believed in His name (John 1:12). This power makes them feel there is no sad times, no failure and even undeserved persecution in Christ. Their first, second or third challenge was a success, so they think and believe all other fights will produce instant success as usual, little do they know that it happened that way to build their faith from the scratch because as of then, milk was yet their basic food.

Certain problems cannot go with mere command. Some painful sacrifices like fasting, forgiveness, lost of status etc. must be offered as prices we pay for the prize we want to get. This can cause a newly born again Christian to backslide if he is not aware of it. For some that are aware, their fall comes from their unwillingness to pay these prices.

Now problems that only one time prayer could have solved is now taking weeks, temptation becoming stronger than before, curses and failures and even persecutions rising from every corner, all aimed at testing and strengthening their faith. Most new converts don’t see it that way because they thought Canaan (life in Christ) would be flowing with milk and honey, not knowing it was a wilderness of severe hunger, thirst and death all in the name of trial. Egypt (the world) is preferable after all, so they make their way back to Egypt.

4.     The Thinking That Life Remains The Way We Met It

Because we think that the life of a believer is as sweet as met it all the time make us make vows upon vows to God and most times not taking into consideration that all we have tasted so far is milk so we think it will all end like that, not knowing that was just the beginning of a great battle.

Many Christians pass through this process and are really not prepared for anything else other than what they can see right away, consequently in few months, they have backslide. Sad enough, God has lost one soul sometimes still in the church. So as the church is filled to the brim, the ministers keep praising God for enlargement while God keep getting sad for the mass backsliding of souls. You too may be one of the. No one can boast of eternal security.

We cannot see Jesus on the last day if we just come into repentance and go out. It is sad, seeing the way there are many falling away from the faith. It is not about believers not knowing why they gave their lives to Christ, but because they have falling prey to the devil. Remember “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” (Romans 15:1).

Take note of these reasons why new converts easily backslide and move your way to strength in Christ. Place your mind on things that are above and seek only the kingdom of God above all things. “Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” (Luke 10:2.) May the good Lord be your ultimate strength in Jesus name. Amen.