A believer whose name I can't think of (for which I'm sure he thanks God) has made an AI video assuring everyone that the children of believers are automatically in the body of Christ. This is absurd and easily disproved in Scripture (1 Corinthians 7), which I will do. Anyone believing this will entertain a false sense of security concerning their children and will lack the motivation to give them the evangel.

I first heard this absurd teaching from—you guessed it—Clyde Pilkington. Clyde would not come out with it publicly, but in 2013-14 he cajoled his fellow-worker Stephen Hill to present it at a conference we were sponsoring at a Johnstown, PA, airport conference room. Hill would become Pilkington's sacrificial lamb.

Stephen told me the night before of his intention to drop this "new and great" revelation that he was "very confident" was true. I begged him not to do it, at one point telling him, "If you do this, I'm coming after it—and you."

He did it anyway.

I interrupted Stephen's talk many times that day (I don't know if the Pilkington's have ever really forgiven me for that), and then, because I was next on the speaking schedule, threw out my regularly scheduled talk to dedicate myself to telling the audience why "everything you just heard from my brother and fellow-worker is completely wrong."

I made such a beautiful shambles of this shameful truth that the Pilkingtons refused to publish either Stephen's presentation or my defense of the truth.

Success!