In addition to the points about Black preaching styles that were previously mentioned by Geoff Alexander, let me note that Pastor woods used repeative phrases, and end rhyming words in the fashion that has come to be associated with Rev. Jesse Jackson. Pastor Woods also weaved into his sermon lines from religious songs & folk sayings that are very familiar to his congregation. Furthermore, Pastor Woods used his body to complement and enhance his words. For instance, the pastor leaped when he said that John the Baptist leaped in his mother's womb.

This video does no show what was most certainly the next part of the church service-"opening the doors of the church".

At this time, the musicians would continue playing but [in my experiences] would probably switch to a song that evoked a different kind of emotion than the "hot" sermon. The choir and the congregation might sing a song like "Just As I Am [Without one plea].

The pastor/s come down from the podium to stand in front of the altar [table] which is placed the center of the front of the church. In my experience, the pastor is joined by the head deacons. The pastor tells the congregation that the doors of the church are opened. He {she} uses passages from his sermon, Biblical passages, passages from the song that is being sung, and other religious songs to exhort people to join the church. Individuals who are moved to join the church might previously belonged to another church and have had their memberships "lapse". Or they might currently belong to another church within the same area, but where presuaded by the sermon to join this particular church. And individuals might come foward to the front of the church who have never before belonged to any Christian church.

In my experience, individuals who respond to the pastor's call to join the church don't kneel at the altar, but stand in the front for a brief time until they are whisked into the pastor's office to meet with a deacon or a deaconess. While the deacon and deaconess talk in private with the person who has come forward to join the church, the choir and the congregation continue singing.

At some alloted time, usually no more than five minutes or so, in my home church, the pastor indicates that people are always welcome to join the church at any time {which is an indication that this portion of the church service has ended]. The deacon and deaconess bring the individuals out to the front of the church and introduce one at a time by name, and city, and indicate whether they are a candidate for baptism, or a person who desires to change membership from another church to this church.

There is a voice vote by the congregation to accept the new members and the candidates for baptism {these votes are always unanimous "Ayes". The deacons immediately followed by the deaconess form a single line and shake the hands of the individuals who are still standing at the front of the church.

Theortically anyway, all of these new members and the candidates for baptism are supposed to attend new members class, and Bible classes.
In Baptist churches, at a designated time, the candidates for baptism {who by the way could be as young as five years old in my church} are baptized by emersion in the pool that typically is located in the back of the pastor's podium.

At this point, these newly baptized individuals are true members of the church.