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It’s an “interesting” development; similar to what happened to me as a child. I was the boy’s age in 1964 and my grandparents took me to church with them every week. The altar call pressure was on me every Sunday morning. One Sunday my grandparents asked me of I would like to be baptized and I...

The family member is presently seven years old and being pressed for a commitment at a Baptist church. The parents are indifferent about altar calls, seeing no problem with it. I’m the child’s grandfather, and he’s been speaking to all of us about it.

A pdf of Tozer’s book (I Call It Heresy is available online and can be read at no cost: https://cciog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/I-Call-it-a-Heresy-A.W.-Tozer.pdf

Welcome to the forum. I haven’t read that particular book by Tozer and don’t have a copy of it in my personal library. I appreciate you bringing it to my attention. I‘m going to have to deal with it sooner or later with a close family member and it’s been weighing heavily on my spirit for...

What is the origin of the altar call? “It is generally recognized that the altar call was invented by a Presbyterian evangelist named Charles G. Finney who lived from 1792-1875. Finney referred to the altar call as coming to the anxious seat or to the inquiry room and began using it in his...

An illustration of the importance of reading and knowing church history. The early church provides the refutation of the siren’s call.

The altar call (method? technique? tool?) is common in some churches, unknown in others. This afternoon I watched the linked video on the subject. (Which was prompted by a comment I read on the forum earlier in the day.) The presenter begins the video by warning his audience that what he is...

I’m a little distracted. What is your chart trying to show us @2bme?

* All digits present and accounted for. *

“The early Christians took Jesus at his word, and understood his inculcations of gentleness and non-resistance in their literal sense. They closely identified their religion with peace; they strongly condemned war for the bloodshed which it involved; they appropriated to themselves the Old...

“Good books are a very great mercy to the world.” - Richard Baxter

In trinitarian theology the Shield of Faith represents only one Yahweh. That’s what a professional trinitarian scholar would say. It’s not unusual to hear an average trinitarian say there is more than one Yahweh. (I encountered that assertion on the forum recently.) What I see in the Shield...