I was raised in a holiness baptist church ...and attended there for 29 years.

I was always taught that Jesus was God manifested in the flesh...John 1:1-14

Our Pastor at the time preached smoking, drinking and much more was a sin. He also had received tattoos while in the military and was convicted over them and had them sand papered off.

He was a very much believed in holiness inward and outward. He is the Pastor that married us. I shall never forget the meeting with him before we were married.

In 1994 our pastor died and the church voted on a new pastor.

The new pastor decided to teach the baptist "doctrine" to which I could find no evidence in the scriptures for several of his teachings...and questioned him on many of them...like once saved always saved...three persons...etc...

He did believe Jesus was God though. We had several conversations.

I was always taught that Jesus was God manifested in the flesh...John 1 1-14
Praise the Lord.

It wasn't long after this teaching we left my church home and God led us into this precious truth.

We were convicted and repented & were baptized in Jesus name. A few months later we received the power of the Holy Ghost just like Acts chapter 2states.

We have been allowed to go back and preach at that church and God saved and filled my Mom with the Holy Ghost before she passed away.

Praise the Lord, that preacher didn't last long down there.

14 years later I am still praying for my little baptist church.

I can remember when I was 6 or so, the first woman to cut her hair and wear red lipstick in the church. She was also the first to wear slacks in the church.
She didn't live long after that. No disrespect intended.

It was many years after that, when women started wearing slacks, make-up and lot's of jewelry and cutting their hair.

I believe it was because it simply was not being taught and preached about.

The church is now 135 years old. It is no longer a holiness church. They do still beleive in prayer, the laying on of hands, and that Jesus is God. Please pray for Caddo Prairie Baptist Church. They also believe in the Holy Ghost, they say they just haven't recived it yet. (Quoted from my Great Uncle Jim who has been in the ministry for 54 years.) He is now in his mid 80's.

God has been so good to me and my family and I give him all the glory and all the praise.

I pray in Jesus name I never take this precious truth for granted. I pray the Lord would draw with his spirit and save my family and reveal his complete truth to them. In Jesus name amen.

God Bless you all
Sister Bridges

probably should have posted this in the praise and prayer reports..sorry.