Evangelical Christians have long been familiar with altar calls at the end of worship services. Typically the altar call focuses on leading prospective converts in a prayer for their salvation and then encouraging them to walk the aisle to make their profession of faith in Christ public.
Rick Scarborough has innovated a new approach to the traditional altar call. He spends a couple minutes leading prospective converts in prayer for their souls and then tells converts to privately inform their pastors about their decision -- after the meeting. Scarborough's altar call is for Christians to repent of their apathy toward politics and then to walk the aisle to make a public commitment to register to vote, get involved in politics to "take back" America for Christ, and support efforts to takeover school boards, city councils, and state houses.
Hear it for yourself. Here's a link to a seven minute podcast of the Christian Nationalist altar call that Scarborough gave at First Baptist Church in Moore, Oklahoma on January 27, 2008.
About half of the more than 1500 people in the room responded to his altar call. More would have responded, but the aisles were full.
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