Also, I still use a modified version of the "altar call", just because the idea is so entrenched into the mind's of the peole of the church. I do not believe I could ever totally do away with it, nor am I pushing to do so. I do not think this is a compromise as much as an accommodation. The main thing is what you do with those that do come forward, I focus on true conversion and what it is. I would primarily do this outside the context of worship. I would annouce to the congregation what the intentions of the person was and then counsel them personally outside the context of worship. Yet, I would not go to the extreme of some baptists and refuse baptism untill I saw fruits of genuine repentance. These fruits come in time, and if not this person has no assurance of being converted. I would not waver in telling them so either. I had one person who, upon learning what true conversion was, say I want no part of that, I just do not want to go to hell, sad.

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