The Invitation System and the Altar Call

[ReverendRV]

I did say this with the belief that @ReverendRV wasn't actually calling for a literal interpretation of the verse in any sort of universal context such as those specifically mentioned are in the habit of doing.

I was just pointing out what others do or don't do doesn't matter and doesn't change anything about our conduct or what is right for us to do or wrong.

As I said in the beginning of the Thread, If I had an Alter Call; I would use a Biblical one. Isaiah 55:1-3...

The Calvinist John Gill calls it an Alter Call...

 

[Rescued One]

I was baptized as a believer by immersion in a Wesleyan church after I left Mormonism. My Presbyterian neighbor back east was baptized in Southern Baptist church because they didn't accept her infant baptism.

 

[Hazelelponi]

As I said in the beginning of the Thread, If I had an Alter Call; I would use a Biblical one. Isaiah 55:1-3...

The Calvinist John Gill calls it an Alter Call...

My automatic is to stand with the nays in the sense that it's used today.

I would still stand by my revision from the initial absolute no, to an invitation more scriptural and more in accordance with our beliefs as I mentioned here:

A biblical approach might be a pastor, trusting God’s work (Romans 8:30), asking, “Has anyone, by God’s Spirit, crossed from death to life (John 5:24) and desires to confess Christ?” This invites public profession (Romans 10:9) without manipulating emotions, affirming regeneration’s fruit (Matthew 7:20). False altar calls exalt man; true calls exalt Christ’s sovereign grace.

However as a woman I think it's probably not my thoughts that matter...

I have a preference for the simple and honest though, not rehearsed or things.

 

[prism]

Wait a minute---what is imperfect faith versus perfect faith?

For starters, no one has perfect faith, I.e. have you moved any mountains lately? And 1Jn 1:9.
Since no one has perfect faith, that leaves us all with imperfect faith (apart from the imputed righteousness of Christ).

 

[ReverendRV]

As I said in the beginning of the Thread, If I had an Alter Call; I would use a Biblical one. Isaiah 55:1-3...

The Calvinist John Gill calls it an Alter Call...

John Gill came a hundred years before Charles Finney...