Sentences with phrase «church altar call»

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.

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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.

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....

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

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

He'll usually post something on our Facebook page like, «Loved church today, especially the fact that Markus did an almost altar call!»

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

The White House hopeful described her experience becoming a Christian as a 16 - year - old, when she said she walked into a church one day with some friends and felt called to the altar.

How, minister to royalty, who call The prophets troublers of the church, Disturbers of the Christian peace, meddlers In matters — so they say — irrelevant To life in faith and hope and love; for whom The double altar is imperative; Who seek to shape the deity in form That sanctifies the royal of the earth?

Maybe this week, it's the two - week mission trip or altar calls, church camp, revivals, camp meetings, political clubs, and «asking Jesus to come into your heart» when we were children.

Many churches are either jettisoning or streamlining the altar call, Leonard says.

Appalachian and Southern Christians often told stories about staggering into church and walking forward during the altar call to say the «sinner's prayer» during revival services that would often last for several weeks.

If I had made an altar call and someone then decided to tell me everything that was wrong with me I would have bolted out of the church.

This question usually triggers among non-converts an uncomfortable silence broken by the phrase, «Well, I was born in a Christian family,» followed by an effort to locate a singular moment of conscious conversion some time during middle school, probably at the altar call of a church youth - group retreat.

For example, one of the churches I love features an altar call at the end of nearly every sermon.

Friends of mine with no church background at all have raced to the front at altar calls, then happily attended discipleship classes and house groups.

I decided one time at home I'm going to go to church, I'm going to respond to the altar call, and I'm going to commit my life to Christ.I spent a few...

As the moral center of culture and civilization, the Christian churches had become a powerful political and cultural force, one of the pillars of what German Lutherans called «throne and altar.»