Hi dustin,
I'm curious what you're trying to accomplish by calling the endpoint via FreeMarker? What I've found in the past is that when I wanted to do something like this, I could instead move my endpoint logic to a FreeMarker macro. I can then call that macro both from the endpoint (if I want to access the results externally) or from a custom component (if I want to access the results internally).
Check out this page for more information:
http://community.lithium.com/t5/Developers-Knowledge-Base/Creating-FreeMarker-macros-for-custom-components-and-endpoints/ta-p/98658
I hope this helps!
