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NASB | 2 Samuel 24:25 David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the LORD was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Samuel 24:25 David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was moved [to compassion] by [David's] prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel. |
Bible Question: Altar calls . . . Biblical? or Man's "learned reponse".Is there any reference to altar calls in the scriptures? |
Bible Answer: Hello Headdoc5 I agree with Markarios here, and I would like to add that though there may be no Biblical history of the early church having such Alter Calls, they are a good thing. One of the core values of the Church that I happened to attend is "CREATIVITY. And though some means of reaching a lost and dying world may not be scriptural, We are willing to use every means afforded to us to share God's Salvation plan for mankind without compromising the Gospel. If this be through dramatizations, skits, passing out tracks, websites such as this or the even a skateboard exhibition, we will do it. The Alter Call may not be a Biblical practice of the NT Church, but it's purpose, which is to win souls to Christ is very much Biblical. For many denominations, in particular some Protestant and Baptist Churches it is a regular invitaion that is offered to those who are seeking answers and deliverance through Jesus. Yet even so these denominations are a part of the Body as a whole. Mark 9: 38- 41 John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us." But Jesus said, "Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me. For he who is not against us is for us."For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward. In Matthew 11:12 Jesus says, "From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force." Paul expresses that he will go to the lengths necessary without compromising the gospel, to win souls to Christ in 1 Cor 9:19-22; "For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some." God's Blessings be upon you! -khuck |
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