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In the far north of Scotland was a fishing port at Wick. The fishermen Went down the east coast of Scotland and England and theit wives followed them and worked processing the fish in the ports where their boats landed the catch. They were known as Fishwives. During some of these journeys some of the men were evangelised and were saved. They founded The Wick Harbour Mission and themselves evangelised as the visited other fishing ports. Then Britain joined the EU and due to the European Common Fisheries Policy, whe Wick fishermen lost their quotas as the fishing grounds had to be shared with the EU fishing states. A friend of ours was a missionary in the Philippines and had to come to the UK to get his adopted daughter's adoption recognised in UK. He was offered a furlough place 6-9 months in one of 3 churches. One of them was Wick where the old mission building was now known as Wick Harbour Mission Baptist Church, and was kept open by 5 elderly ladies. By the time he came over the other two churches had got pastors so he ended up in Wick. Later on his mission board asked if he would retire and become pastor at wick which he accepted and has been pastor there for a few years now.

I laughed too hard at this

It's possible he has a different belief on altar calls, but, that doesn't make him wrong. There is no scriptural directive to give such a call. It's a man-made, man-imposed choice. So, why is it "sad" that this is how the church, or at least this pastor has decided to lead? I would say you should stay unless the Lord leads you to leave. This is not a doctrinal or moral issue. You must decide "which hill to die on." I would hope that this wouldn't be it.

This article is from a Calvinistic viewpoint, and most here don't subscribe to Calvin's positions.