Santachica
07-07-2009, 12:37 AM
...however, I'd like the ask a question and this seems to be the best place.
I started going to a non-denominational church about 5 years ago, and I was pretty involved for a while. But I fell out of the faith halfway through high school. About 7 months ago, I realized that I was destroying myself with the way I was living my life. So I decided to rededicate myself to God. The first person I told was my friend Gabe (who I had always had a bit of a crush on) and he helped keep me accountable. Two months later, he and I started dating. He attends a UPC church. While the non-denominational church had some Charismatic background, I wasn't really exposed to speaking in tongues until I started visiting my boyfriends church. I understood what speaking in tongues was about, so it didn't freak me out or anything, but I was still against it in my own mind. I thought it was just something that God didn't have planned for me. I was still grounded in my non-denominational, Trinitarian beliefs.
But on April 19th, 2009, as I sat the night service at my boyfriend's church, God started to work in me. I received the Holy Ghost that night and I knew that something in my life had just shifted. After that I had a bit of an identity crisis, where I didn't quite know what to believe anymore. So I started reading the Bible, and one Wednesday morning, as I read through Acts, it was all there in black and white. Baptism in Jesus' name was right there in front of me. It wasn't some great mystery. It was right there.
Since then, I've had some extreme revelations about God's oneness in prayer and in my reading of the Scripture, though, being raised Trinitarian, I still have trouble wrapping my head around it.
I've said all of that just to say this: Should I get re-baptized? I was baptized in the titles when I was 13, and I was sincere about it at the time. I have since come to understand that the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost are all Jesus and I haven't felt any conviction to get re-baptized. However, this is something that my boyfriend asked me about last night and it got me thinking. I'd like to hear some of the opinions of the people on this forum.
I started going to a non-denominational church about 5 years ago, and I was pretty involved for a while. But I fell out of the faith halfway through high school. About 7 months ago, I realized that I was destroying myself with the way I was living my life. So I decided to rededicate myself to God. The first person I told was my friend Gabe (who I had always had a bit of a crush on) and he helped keep me accountable. Two months later, he and I started dating. He attends a UPC church. While the non-denominational church had some Charismatic background, I wasn't really exposed to speaking in tongues until I started visiting my boyfriends church. I understood what speaking in tongues was about, so it didn't freak me out or anything, but I was still against it in my own mind. I thought it was just something that God didn't have planned for me. I was still grounded in my non-denominational, Trinitarian beliefs.
But on April 19th, 2009, as I sat the night service at my boyfriend's church, God started to work in me. I received the Holy Ghost that night and I knew that something in my life had just shifted. After that I had a bit of an identity crisis, where I didn't quite know what to believe anymore. So I started reading the Bible, and one Wednesday morning, as I read through Acts, it was all there in black and white. Baptism in Jesus' name was right there in front of me. It wasn't some great mystery. It was right there.
Since then, I've had some extreme revelations about God's oneness in prayer and in my reading of the Scripture, though, being raised Trinitarian, I still have trouble wrapping my head around it.
I've said all of that just to say this: Should I get re-baptized? I was baptized in the titles when I was 13, and I was sincere about it at the time. I have since come to understand that the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost are all Jesus and I haven't felt any conviction to get re-baptized. However, this is something that my boyfriend asked me about last night and it got me thinking. I'd like to hear some of the opinions of the people on this forum.