{"id":171,"date":"2009-03-11T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-03-11T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:22:34","slug":"i-hate-altar-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"I HATE Altar Calls&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long hated altar calls&#8230; since a boy in growing up in church&#8230; they seem so manipulative.  And frankly, I don&#8217;t think they work anymore these days.  In fact, let me say that stronger&#8230; they DON&#8217;T work!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why I say that so strongly&#8230; three weeks ago on Feb 22, I offered an altar call in both of our worship gatherings&#8230; NO response.  None&#8230; Nada&#8230; Zip!    Then the very next Sunday &#8211; March 1, I introduced a response card in each bulletin.  I got 7 responses that day from people wanting to commit their lives to Christ, be baptized, and\/or join the church.  The very next week, I got 3 responses.<\/p>\n<p>Go figure!   <\/p>\n<p>I think the day of the altar call in USAmerica is over!<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long hated altar calls&#8230; since a boy in growing up in church&#8230; they seem so manipulative. And frankly, I don&#8217;t think they work anymore these days. In fact, let me say that stronger&#8230; they DON&#8217;T work! Here&#8217;s why I say that so strongly&#8230; three weeks ago on Feb 22, I offered an altar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}