well I truly admire Charles Stanley but he should have mentioned the fact that most Christians don't have the emotional fortitude to really wait on and trust in God 100% of the time and so.. they suffer hardship after hardship after hardship... which hopefully after many years will of suffering and hardship will pan out as faith.

Strictly speaking, if Mr Stanley's words were competely true in all cases.. for every Christian,, Christians would not die of cancer... their children would all be perfect etc etc etc.

God allows what we allow, keep that in mind also. Open the door to something God does not approve of and suddenly, it is in your life even though He does not approve. And it can sometimes take years to clean up the mess from a few moments of bad decision making. That goes for Christians as well as non-Christians.

I think if you picked Charles Stanley's brain he would agree but he doesn't talk much about it because people don't want to hear it..

I heard somewhere once.. someone asked Billy Graham how many of the people did he think actually got saved that came to his altar calls and he said.. realistically... only about 5%.