Alter Call

Its always interesting when pastors make alter calls.  I didn't realize that alter calls were relatively new things.  I guess in the church I have grown up in we do an altar call every Sunday; encouraging people to come up to the front so that pastors can pray for you.  I think that these things can be good.  Sometimes you are just in a place in your life where you need prayer and you are afraid to ask one of your friends to pray for you or just want more people praying for you.  I think the moment you choose to accept Christ is a moment where you want prayer and guidance by another Christian in your life and a pastor at your church is a good person to ask.  However, I do not think this is necessary.  Someone could accept Christ in a parking lot, or a bus station or anywhere. It doesn't have to happen in a church building. You don't have to walk the aisle at your church for your relationship with God to officially start. I take it as a way to show others of your commitment to follow God.  I was kind of shocked to read that pastors rate their affectiveness by how many people walk the aisle after their sermon.  That is rediculous.  The kind of sermon any pastor preaches doesn't even come from the pastor, it comes from God.  It doesn't take a long, fancy, eloquite sermon to evoke the love of God in an unbeliever's heart.  In conclusion, I think that altar calls are okay but not necessary.

Grilled Cheesus

It's always interesting to learn about other people's worldviews.  It seems like most television producers do not have a Christian view point.  I wonder why they feel the need to poke fun at our religion?  I was not here Friday when we watched the beginning of the Glee episode in class, but it didn't take long to see that the makers of this show were probably not Christians. I think the writers steriotyped the Christian religion.  I wonder if all non believers think that all chruch services are like that.  Old people are all up and dancin and shoutin and the choir is goin nuts.  I know that it really doesn't matter what music you listen to in chruch, but if non believers think that church is just a bunch of old people and gosple music it might make them not want to go and hear the good news of Jesus.  They dramatized praying a little bit I think, but praying is good and everyone should do it.  I think it showed how a lot of people might feel about being alone. I think a lot of unbelievers feel the same as Fin when he realized that the Idol he was praying to was not real.  He felt empty and alone and like he was searching for something.  Although this show had an overall negative perspective on Christianity, I think it had some good points.