Baptized 12 Today!
 

Today was a baptismal service at our church. We have been planning it for several months to coincide with the conclusion of a teaching series held mid week on what our church teaches and believes.

11 or 12 people were baptized today. I know 11 were scheduled to be baptized but unless I counted wrong I believe actually an even dozen were baptized in Jesus name so maybe had one latecomer.

Probably 10 of the 12 were between the ages of 18-30 years old. So good to see young adults making a commitment to identify and walk with the Lord.

Before someone asks our church will baptize people spontaneously outside of these scheduled baptismal services if they like but being "one steppers" we are not in fear of them being lost should they repent and come to the Lord then die before they are baptized.

Our young church ( 2 1/2 years old) was packed out at this AM service with standing room only. About 120 folks there. Should be around 60-80 at the second service I believe. Between the two services we are consistently running 150-200 people total each Sunday. We are about to have to go to a third Sunday service. A nice problem to have!

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Praise God.

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If they weren't threesteppers then what's the point? Why bother?
:heeheehee

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Bible tells us to do it, Jesus did it as an example, and we should WANT to do everything we can to show our identification with Jesus whether or not it is salvational!!!!

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awesome :)

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Great!!! I love hearing reports like this.

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glad for every precious soul....

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Great Report!

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CC1 says:Bible tells us to do it, Jesus did it as an example, and we should WANT to do everything we can to show our identification with Jesus whether or not it is salvational!!!!


CC1 is absolutely correct. We don't know a smidgen of what is going on in other people's hearts. If they want to be baptized in Jesus Name, then they should be and let the Holy Ghost deal with the rest in their lives. It's not up to us to decide if they qualify for baptism in Jesus Name when the Bible commands us to do it.

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I am an advocate of baptizing a person as soon as they can verify that they are ready. Sometimes that is right away, sometimes it takes a while.

By the way, it looks like we will be baptizing someone soon. Mom has been working on her for a while, and we are very excited.