Although I wasn't raised in such a tradition, altar calls, public testimonies, etc, always struck me as being very ego-centric, as if there were a contest to see who the worst sinner were who still found Jesus. I don't wish to make light of it, but I find conversion a very personal internal humbling matter and not something we see wide approval or praise for. That is for the angels in heaven. Same thing goes for speaking in tongues: I've witnessed it and it made my skin crawl. It sounded like a tribal African language and appeared based on emotional excess, and not the Holy Spirit. Did not the Apostles at Pentacost speak in human \"tongues\" that \"foreigners\" could understand. I don't think it was about some \"secret\" language that only God can understand.
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