“I don’t care how other people define an altar call.”
Of course not. That would have to mean caring about facts and the truth.
“All I care about is people hearing the word of God, believing in Christ and becoming His followers.”
And on that I agree with you - although we’ll disagree on what it means to be a disciple of Christ. I’ll agree with scripture and the Church. You agree with Altar Calls.
I’ve been one posting scripture to prove my points......you’ve offered.......Wikipedia.
I've posted what it means to be a disciple of Christ...if we love Him, we will keep His commandments.
It's not that complicated.
Sorry; but I, for one, am not convinced.
Call no man father.
John 1:10-13 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Doesn't matter how you do it or what you say. Repeating a sinner's prayer may or may not save you because it's not reciting words like an incantation but the heart.
Just like this.....
Luke 18:9-14 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”