Sentences with phrase «altar call»

From time to time, the preacher issues altar calls.

I don't like the idea that life is a perpetual altar call.

They consider their lives too busy for long revival services and extended altar calls.

Clearly, that is better than just going through the original altar call, and ideally even more could be done.

Nearly all AG churches have designated times each week to pray for divine healing and times for the old - fashioned altar calls for salvation.

Eyes open, shoulder - checking, in - the - midst - of - life prayers are just as meaningful and powerful, I think, as any in a church altar call or a monastery.

It is not uncommon for our church to be asked why we do not do altar calls or hand - raising type evangelistic efforts.

Since you bring the topic up, let me sketch out what I see as the dimensions of the issue for someone who hasn't experienced a persuasive altar call or revelatory «Road to Damascus» experience.

The busyness of our schedules) is perhaps the reason there are less altar calls at church... It was not blaming those activities for a decline in church - goers.

Yet it seems we look with longing always towards the fervent excitement of the tent meeting altar call — and never towards the dignified beauty of a Wittenberg worship service.

I was hoping they would simply let the story speak for itself and dreaded a cringeworthy altar call at the end.

Iphone altar call ($ 15), Iphone bop / faint ($ 25), IPhone tongues ($ 20), Iphone dunking ($ 100), Iphone Bible Study ($ 25 / session)... save the receipts so that when you die you can prove you GAVE..

It does not have separate services for Christians and non-Christians because conversion is considered a continuing process, not something settled with an emotional altar call.

To be sure, they would not have tolerated direct - down - the - sawdust altar calls.

But we are commanded to «work out our salvation» which seems to me to be an ongoing issue — not something settled once and for all in a five - minute altar call while the organist quietly plays «Just as I am» from memory.

Yes, there were the occasional altar calls or prayer requests but they were rather rote and quickly over so I didn't bother with those.

True to his nickname, Bruiser ended with a missionary altar call, of sorts.

Chuck: I wonder if this discussion about altar calls is helpful to the ministers from the Institute.

We once went to a crusade in Edmonton (I don't know what possessed my parents) and in the end there was the usual altar call.

Of course, the Grahams would suggest this also, but the pressure and altar call associated with the decision theology is not ok.

«I've done altar calls and nothing happened.

Since you bring the topic up, let me sketch out what I see as the dimensions of the issue for someone who hasn't experienced a persuasive altar call or revelatory «Road...

Why were we being evangelized and issued altar calls?

He would make the altar call in his powerful baritone, asking the multitudes to stand, come down the aisles and publicly make «decisions for Christ,» as a choir crooned the hymn «Just As I Am.»

When I look back on my own conversion, I can not credit a gospel tract or an altar call or an exposition of John 3:16.

If only the security guard had left him alone, I'm sure he would have shared the Gospel, given an altar call, and people's lives would have been forever changed.

There was no altar call during the service, but wanting the salvation from Christ she had heard about in the sermon, nine - year - old Joyce approached the preacher at the end and asked him how she could be saved.

Usually, when I gave an altar call, everybody received Jesus,» he says.

The point is this: Stop thinking that when you share the Four Spiritual Laws, or the Romans Road, or the plan of salvation, or given an altar call, or invite someone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, or any of the other myriad of things that Christians today call «sharing the gospel,» stop thinking that you have actually shared the Gospel.

And they tell everyone they felt him and that they saw him heal someone and that someone gave a prophetic word and the choir was great and a whole mob of people made the altar call....

He found himself in a church one morning, felt the power of God during the altar call — was shaking under that power and ready to commit....

Fred had early exposure to Christianity — through which he accepted an altar call, but was never baptized.

They often run to our altar calls with tears streaming down their faces.

The other thing about that kind of fiction is that if you don't have an altar call at the end, people think it has failed.

The altar call is a masterpiece of positive suggestion.

The altar call, or invitation, usually lasts about fifteen minutes, but it may go on longer if a substantial number have not been converted.

You may end your sermon with an altar call for commitment by saying, «Jesus died on the cross for our sins and in our place.

I do wish there were an altar call at the end of the blog.

In fact, many just got a warm fuzzy feeling, went to an altar call and «bop» they are Christian.

I was part of the youth group, I followed the charismatic youth pastor, I went to camps and conferences, I got caught up in the emotionalism of altar calls and rededications.

It is in one of the training manuals that his organization uses to theach / train the people that will counsel those who come down the steps after the altar call.

Recently, however, Henrietta has not been able to bring herself to answer Brother Shad's altar calls.

It is an altar call, but not like the altar calls I remember in southern churches, where salvation came through fear.