[Fantasywriter]

I will tell you the big one. I won’t argue about it, though. I am no longer a member of that particular denomination, plus I just don’t like to argue doctrine.

But in a nutshell, the church I was raised in taught that you couldn’t be saved without baptism/immersion. Going forward for an altar call and praying the sinner’s prayer was just a manmade substitute for God’s plan.

So why Billy Graham was so profoundly respected among the members of that denomination...I still don’t know. But he was. Some things/people supersede even the most rigidly held doctrines, one must suppose.

[Resettozero]

Going forward for an altar call and praying the sinner’s prayer was just a manmade substitute for God’s plan.

For many, it probably amounted to that. Also, for some who had been born again, it was a time of re-dedicating their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ and to doing the will of God.

For some who went to the front at the BGEA Crusade, it was a ring-a-ding homerun born-again experience in the Spirit and they never would be the same as before that day or night. Just ask them.

All depends on who was called and who answered and who continued to follow the Lord Jesus Christ from then on.