The Modern Movement of Crusade Evangelism

Invitational and anecdotal preaching today largely displaces textual and expositional preaching. The "invitation" used in connection with a sermon is a mere additive foreign to true preaching. What can the "invitation" furnish that true preaching does not? Where the latter is a reality, why would anyone want to append an opportunity to "take it or leave it"? -- which is what an "invitation" is. Today, the "invitation" tacked on at the end of a "message" is usually one to come forward and accept...