altar call

Some people sing great in church, but this isn't an altar call.

Most altar calls occur at the end of the sermon.

They both responded to an altar call and became born again Christians in 1954.

Altar call - invitation to become a Christian; given at a church service or event.

Often, this will include an altar call where people are invited to come forward and "accept Christ".

The act of answering the altar call is understood to be spontaneous, personal and deeply felt.

Answering the altar call may take only a moment, she said, but finding peace through Christ is the work of a lifetime.

Later, Wilkerson gave an altar call, and many gang members responded.

In doing so, they argue, altar calls may actually give people false assurance about their salvation.

The band considered evangelism to be their primary function, and each live show included an altar call.

All use an emotional "altar call" in which new believers step forward to declare their "decision for Christ."

Some churches object to the use of the altar call for a variety of reasons.

Once I saw a severely handicapped young man who came every year answer the altar call in his automated wheelchair.

I ask whether he went forward during the altar call, and to my surprise I learn he did.

He does not answer any altar call.

The evening ends shortly after the altar call.

Congregations often sing a hymn, usually with a theme of invitation or decision, during the altar call.

The second was used as an invitational at Harvest Crusade altar calls.

Their concerts have been described as a series of revival meetings which often included altar calls and occasionally exorcisms.

And the preacher in the politician built to an altar call, the cadence of the black church enhancing an appeal for votes.

Many of last month's church screenings were followed by an altar call for born-again conversions and fund-raising.

In fact, he says he gave his life to Jesus at the age of three, in response to an altar call by his father.

He sat between us, to block me from the impulse to run down the bleachers to answer Mr. Graham's altar call.

Live shots from our concert in Americana Brazil including an altar call and a major dousing of the crowd!

The 'Altar Call' Is it helpful or harmful?