Altar Calls

One thing that our Fellowship does is we have an altar call at the conclusion of every service. We do this to give people a chance to be saved. We do this for a chance to respond to the sermon. Some people seem to respond to every altar call no matter what. Some people rarely or never go forward to pray. But there is one common thing that I noticed. Those who always go and those who rarely go are basically the same in the end. Change does not automatically happen just because you went forward to pray.

Not all altar calls are equal. Sometimes they are life changing. The time you went forward to get saved was a life changing altar call. The time that you finally surrendered to the call of God is a life changing altar call. Most of the time our needs are not so profound or life altering. How to be a better husband or wife or parent. How to be a better Christian. The choice to go on record to start tithing. While everything in life is important on one level, not everything in life is life changing.

One sign of a young church is everyone answers every altar call every time.

I remember when an evangelist would come off of the platform and go to someone in their seat to give them a word. Now if you do not go forward you do not get a personal word from anyone. And most of the people who go forward go back to their seat the same as when thy went forward.