It seems that here in the “Bible belt” of the south, that most everyone claims to be a “Christian.” There are approximately 43 million Baptists worldwide as well as 1.2 billion Catholics and 66 million Lutherans. And a large percentage of those numbers are here in America, especially here in the south. That is only considering three of the major denominations. If you included all the many, many other denominations, you would have to realize there are many more millions that claim to be “Christian.” So, almost everyone in America has been exposed to some kind of church or religious experience at some point in their life. Everything from attending church meetings to Christian camp to vacation bible school to Sunday School to a personal friend or family member telling them about the gospel. In these various contacts situations, most people have been compelled to pray the “sinners' prayer” or asked to “believe in Jesus” or told to just “accept Christ”, etc. It didn't matter if they were 5 years old, 10 years old or older. And once they were convinced to take one of these easy and quick steps to be saved, they were told that now they were saved and that heaven was guaranteed.