I've never really known much about the "alter call" but apparnatly around the 1800's before the 'alter call' Ministers and Church groups would have have "camp meeting" and would include passionate preaching and extreme (and some slighty weird....) responses.. such as Crying out, Shrieking, Groaning, Fainting, Swooning, Twitching ,and weeping. Minister's viewed these responses as evidence of god's work.....*cough* may i just say these sounds more like responses to semester exams then evidence of holy spirit. I think that our actions and our ways in our daily life and walk in christ show his power, not bodily movements (excuse the humor). and the alter walk was later adapted as a new way of response tallying... i refer back to the daily life tidbit i said earlier when i say its not our response at the time but how we apply it....
Mandy <3
