Almost all who claim to be Christians are agreed on the need for evangelism. However, evangelicals are still distinguished by their authoritative proclamation of man's state in sin, necessitating a personal response to Christ in repentance and faith. As distinct from vaguer conceptions, evangelicals believe in the new birth of individuals. In recent years, however, the pattern in which such conversions are most frequently expected to occur has been linked with the practice of calling people to the front during an evangelistic service. This is 'the invitation system' characteristic of modern mass evangelism.
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Reviewed by Boyd Howarth (Allentown, PA), June 12, 2008
Boy, if you are looking to a good and short essay on a seemingly much misunderstood practice-this is it!
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Reviewed by Roy Ingle (Georgia), April 15, 2004
Iain Murray writes a critical analysis of the popular evangelical altar call system found in most churches today. This was first made popular by the pragmatist Charles Finney then D.L. Moody, Billy Sunday, down to the present day of Billy & Franklin Graham. Murray compares the system to the Bible and his conclusions are what anyone else would find: there is nothing of it in Scripture.
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