Article 16

"Shiloh Baptist Church is a Sovereign Assembly"

"We believe and preach the doctrines of God's sovereign grace"

Evidences

If you ask me the clearest evidence of a truly converted person, I would say it would be concerning his/her attitude toward the Gospel. When God calls a person through the Gospel, he/she falls in love with Christ and can't get enough of hearing Him preached from that day forward. Of all the persons I have witnessed over the years that seem to be genuine believers, their love for the hearing of the Gospel has never diminished. They are just as enthused about it and moved by it now as they were when they first heard it. They do not look for excuses to miss it but are looking for opportunities to attend it. If these are your feelings about Gospel preaching, thank God!

If you would ask me the clearest evidence of an unconverted state, or apostasy, I would say it concerns the same thing: it would be that person's attitude toward hearing the Gospel. Indifference, poor attendance, lack of joy and rejoicing upon hearing the Gospel, and constantly looking for excuses to miss it are clear signs to me that a person is not in love with Jesus Christ. If you find the hearing of the Gospel to be a burden to you rather than a pleasure and do not experience any real joy upon hearing it, ask God to help you, speak to you, make his work burn within you until it catches your heart afire. If you are not concerned, may God have mercy upon you.