Chris Hubbard

I have started listening to the Way of the Master Radio podcast recently.  It is christian talk radio and sounds a lot like Rush Limbaugh but evangelistic.  From what I picked up, the host of the program, Todd “Freakishly Tall” Friel, was a comedian and it definitely bleeds in.  They talk about some current events and will take callers, believers and non-believers.  Their focus is evangelism through conviction of sin which comes by the law (ten commandments).

From a recent show, here is  The Seeker’s Prayer which is a hypothetical prayer created by Dr. John Gerstner from his study of Johnathan Edwards’s puritan roots in evangelism. 

Dear God, whom I hate with all my being precisely because you hate and threaten me with hell, I hate this punishment perhaps even more than I hate you. Or, maybe I should say that I love my comfort even more than I hate you. For that reason I am asking a favor of you. I want you to make me love you, whom I hate even when I ask this and even more because I have to ask this. I am being frank with you because I know it is no use to be otherwise. You know even better than I how much I hate you and that I love only myself. It is no use for me to pretend to be sincere. I most certainly do not love you and do not want to love you. I hate the thought of loving you but that is what I’m asking because I love myself. If you can answer this ‘prayer’ I guess the gift of gratitude will come with it and then I will be able to do what I would not think of doing now—thank you for making me love you whom I hate. Amen.

Quite a bit different for today’s “ask Jesus into your heart” Sinner’s Prayer.