Many evangelical Christians were raised in churches that gave a weekly invitation, i.e. a time of response usually placed at the end of the worship gathering. I am such a person even as my dad pastored a church that employed such an act. Currently, however, and for various reasons, the so-called traditional invitation is being removed in many evangelical worship gatherings. While those who have become accustomed to an invitation for nearly their entire lives might resist such a change, I would invite people to examine the invitation itself in a different light and question the foundational purpose behind its existence in the first place.