Baptizing in Jesus Name on the City Hall Lawn
 

You may have seen my posts over the last couple of years about the Friday night Praise & Worship night our church has about quarterly. Usually it is in our sanctuary with the seats removed to allow more people to be there and is 2 1/2 -3 hours of Praise & Worship followed by a baptism service.

The baptism theme is carried through the next two days during our 4 regular weekend services (Saturdays 5 pm & 7 pm and Sundays 9 am & 11 am) with the lesson on baptism and baptisms at the end of each service. Usually we see 75-80 people baptized between the Friday night event and the four regular services.

Last year we held a Praise & Worship night outdoors but on property in town that rents out for events. This year in a conversation with our town mayor the mayor asked our pastor "why don't you hold your next Praise & Worship night downtown on the square?". Of course we jumped at the offer.

Our town has about 125,000 people and the downtown square is a cool area with the Courthouse in the center and many shops and restaurants surrounding the square and on streets nearby.

Not only are we having our Praise & Worship night there next Friday (June 9, 2017) but the city is having the police close off all the streets around the square to accommodate more people!

Best of all we will be baptizing people in Jesus name on the lawn of City Hall at the end of the event! Help us pray for a great community turnout and for people who have not heard the gospel message before or who have and not responded before to have their hearts opened and a hunger for Christ in their life birthed.

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will definitely be praying for the service, very exciting.

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CC1 does that church believe that it is necessary for people to be infilled with the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues?

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It is not a 3 stepper church so no they do not believe you must speak in tongues to be saved. The only thing this church has in common with old time OP is that we baptize in Jesus name. We do believe in the gifts of the Spirit and speaking in tongues. The church is not a "Oneness" church in the traditional OP sense. We obviously believe in one God but believe trinitarians do as well so do not demonize or contend against that view.

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It's a broadway, wide spacious entrance and easy to find.

It's Wal Mart?

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No, it is just biblical.

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That's what they all say.

Step right up, step right up, step right up
Everyone's a winner, bargains galore
That's right, you too can be the proud owner
Of the quality goes in before the name goes on
One-tenth of a dollar, one-tenth of a dollar, we got service after sales
You need Bible study? we got flip charts, how 'bout a highlighter?
Something for the little lady, something for the little lady
Something for the little lady, hmm
Three for a dollar

We got a year-end clearance, we got a white sale
And a smoke-damaged pews, you can drive it away today
Act now, Acts 2:38 now, and receive a free Bible as our gift, our gift to you
They come in all colors, one size fits all
No muss, no fuss, no spills, you're tired of kitchen drudgery
Everything must go, giving you the business, taking care of your business
Putting our nose into your business sale
Fifty percent off original retail price, skip the middle man
Don't settle for less, 3 steppers, 4 steppers and 1 steppers to no steppers all served fresh daily :heeheehee

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I am just excited about the opportunity to reach more of my city for Christ and appreciate the folks on AFF's prayers. If you can't bring yourself to pray that people who might not know Christ find him through my church and events like this then maybe you can pray we reach them and get them interested in Christ and then they stumble across an old time Pentecostal church and get "full salvation" as I think 3 steppers call it.

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You can only see me as the wet blanket. To you I'm not celebrating, and rejoicing in Jesus name baptism. Which I'm a JESUS NAME to the bone. Yet, my prayers are that they will see through all the webs, the smoke, the humble bare feet and the bloody knees of the preacher crawling under the spotlight. 3 stepper? Get over it already. Your foot is still stuck in the Pentecostal stirrup and you have been dragged through Neo-Phariseeism. You believe you are a deconstructionist who is bringing a deeper meaning to all who are baptized.

But it is only Aldous Huxley's First Church of the Brave New World.

They are being baptized!

Into what?

It's in Jesus name!

Which Jesus?

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I will be praying, I received the HG in an AOG church that I visited with some friends when I was 11 and then later was baptized in Jesus name when I was 15 because of a street evangelist. Didn't actually start attending church till I joined an Independent Apostolic church when I was 24. God kept leading me closer to him one step at a time.

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The Spirit of Truth will lead into all truth.

That's what we pray for.

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I don't see you as a "wet blanket". Just as not having a clue. You are certainly entitled to your beliefs and views as I am. I honestly don't expend a lot of energy worrying about what christians who believe differently than me think about my beliefs. I do take offense at ignorant and sarcastic things said about my pastor by people who don't know him. The snarky insinuations that he is not sincere, etc.

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Makes me think of this guy, I can hear his voice even now:

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Again, you can see that this movement sees anyone outside of it as a sideshow freak. We are told that the Freak Show has "oddities" as its "beliefs" Don't get me wrong, they aren't coming out and telling you that you are BOBO the dog face boy right out. But, when you press them with "I'm not too sure about the whole story." You are then informed that it is you who are the bad machine. You are the one not rejoicing in freedom, liberty, and most of all humble barefoot love. Please, don't offer a criticism, because you would then be not rejoicing in the salvation of the lost. Pretty much it has its own beautiful barbed wire wrapped around it. So much beauty wrapped around the Bible. Preacher is humble, ragged, family eating a steady diet of Ramen Noodles, patiently waiting for his children to get old enough. So, he would warrant a pay increase. I think I can hear the shuffle of angel feet? Barefoot angels of light.

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Good news CC1!

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No its not. Not at all.

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Most traditional Apostolics have little understanding of the major doctrines of salvation and how they dovetail and interrelate. For example:

Justification
Regeneration
Adoption

Justification takes place at repentance. In it, the believer stands with an imputed righteousness whereby they are accounted as being sinless before God. It is this justified state that allows one to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Regeneration takes place at the moment one receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Regeneration is essentially the very Spirit of God coming to abide in one's inner man. It is here that the very life of God begins flowing through one's inner being. It is through this spiritual reality that one partakes in the divine nature.

Adoption is accounted after one is made a new creature through the Regeneration that takes place as one is filled with the Spirit. And so, one is accounted as being a child of God.

Primary doctrines of soteriological significance such as Atonement, Propitiation, Justification, Identification, Regeneration, Adoption, and Sanctification are not widely understood in traditional Apostolic circles.

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CC1 - I am trying to be excited for you, but it sounds as though your church is is somewhat too far out on doctrine, for me to be so.
And to say that trinitarians believe in one God is like saying that socialists believe in limited government.
While I will grant you that most people who attend trinitarian churches are unsure as to how many or what "gods" they worship, their theologians have an entirely different viewpoint.
They firmly believe in the trinity and believe those who are "oneness" are in false doctrine.
I would also ask you what is there that would prevent this church from falling back into false doctrine the same as Christ Church did?
Without a strong teaching of doctrine, the congregation will be led into whatever field the pulpit wishes to lead.

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I rejoice that you are spreading the Gospel and his name. :thumbsup
Keep up the good work and get them into bible studies, so they can grow in the Lord.

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What false doctrine did Christ Church fall into?

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What do you think CC1 stands for?? LOL

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When he use to ride his Gold Wing Honda? I thought it was for Chopper Charlie 1 :cc1

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VTX 1300, not a Gold Wing! Candy Apple red with lots of chrome. Boy do I miss that bike!!!!

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Is Mrs CC1 glad it is gone?

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Since we don't dispute the trinity I think we are already in "false doctrine" according to old time OP beliefs! I am just trying to share what we do have in common and what our church is doing.

As I said before perhaps old time OP's can pray for the success of this event on the basis that people who don't know Christ might become aware, repent, and maybe even be baptized in Jesus name so then it is just a short step for them to find a UPC or like old time OP church to bring them into "full salvation"!

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I doubt it. I have a lot of life insurance! LOL. Plus it kept me out of her hair on weekends as I would spend many Saturday's out riding in the country all day. This was before we had grandkids.

Getting rid of it was all a matter of managing risk. I was getting older and had arthritis in both shoulders, a calcified tendon in one shoulder, a bad knee, etc and my bike weighed over 700 lbs dry. If I still had it the arthritis I have since developed in fingers on both hands would make riding for any length of time even harder. I still sure do miss it though. Nothing more relaxing and exhilarating than riding out in the country.

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Here is a pic of our town square where the Praise & Worship night is going to be this Friday June 9, 2017.

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Here is a picture of a little article our local newspaper published about our event.

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Apparently your church baptizes people in the name of a different Jesus. Not sure how that works. Rilly.

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Sorry, I thought you had a Gold Wing.

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I wonder if you stopped eating all gluten how that arthritis would lessen?

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I have been thinking about that myself lately. I tend to be skeptical of all of these recent "discoveries" like issues with gluten but you never know.

I had been treating my arthritis with over the counter ibufroen but a little over a month ago my doctor prescribed Meloxicam and it has been amazing at reducing the pain in my fingers. Of course it could also be the warmer weather but we had a very mild Winter and Spring so I don't know.

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One thing I am curious about is if any liberal anti christian group will make a fuss over baptisms being done on the city square. I don't know what the legalities are but seems something the ACLU would try to claim is a violation of the separation of church and state.

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I am for the baptizing of people in the name of Jesus. I am for the infilling of the Holy Ghost.

I don't need everyone in lock step with me on every point, but those things are far better when present....

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agree. if nothing else this is standing up to the progressive lefts cultural revolution. on that alone, your church is making me happy.

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They baptize in Jesus name, but infilling of the Holy Ghost is optional. Sadly where it is optional, few, and I do mean few get it.

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Come to Wilton Manors Florida in Broward County and do the same thing. See how far you go. It is allowed in your neck of the woods because of the number of conservatives. Google, flag of Wilton Manors, you'll see what I mean. Baptizing people on the lawn of a government building are just church advertising.

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Don't be skeptical if something works. Everyone is different and react to certain foods differently. Gluten has been modified to the point that it has an adverse reaction to joints, tendons, and muscle. The simplest list of indicators you're Gluten intolerant have inflammation, swelling, pain in your joints, fingers, knees and hips, listed.

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CC1 says frequently that his church "believes in the gifts of the Spirit". I wonder how his pastor would define the "infilling of the Holy Ghost." My guess is he wouldn't even be considered a classical Pentecostal according to the AG model. CC1....do you ever hear anyone speak in tongues in your church?

Also...since the congregants do the baptizing and they are probably extremely varied as to doctrinal positions, and all the pastor really instructs them on is "now it's important to say the name of Jesus when you baptize" I would also question how many are actually baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

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Wow, CC1 your church is the First Church of the Barefoot Hippy?

Congregants baptize? I know hippy churches down here. They have a homeless guy get baptized. He then walks over to the other homeless guy and baptizes him. My question would be how does that all work? Do you all just randomly pick your baptizers? Does the pastorally team? Down here we have Calvary Chapel, they have 40,000 people? Everyone believes in whatever. But to be a teacher in a cell group then you have to go by the church manual. You know, I have always heard people mock and say when you get to heaven you are going to be surprised who is there. I always answer, "what if you are wrong?" What if it is as Old Time Pentecostal beyond what you can possibly fathom? Our culture in this country is focused on diversity in unity. Sorry, but that ain't gonna fly. Walking contradictions can't walk together for long. Sooner or later they both fall into the ditch.