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Originally Posted by Rico
You are assuming there is always a readily available means to get someone baptized. I know what you are saying, but sometimes circumstances just get in the way. Say, for example, it's the middle of January. Heading on down to the River is out of the question because it's 20 below zero. It's 11:30 on Sunday night and y'all had a blowout service. A sinner makes his way to the altar during the altar call. He wants to get baptized, but there's no water in the baptistry because the line sprung a leak and they haven't been fixed yet. The pastor says to wait until he can either get the baptisty fixed or find somewhere to perform the baptism. Brother New Convert leaves and dies from an unexpected heart attack or in a car wreck that night. Does he get into Heaven? My feeling is he would, but that's one of them tricky judgement calls only God should make.
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I disagree with you on this. They used to break through the ice in the creek in the North Carolina Mountains to have a baptismal. I personally have crawled into a running creek that had to be below zero to baptize someone that had seen the light on Jesus Name Baptism. If it is taught as salvational, there will be a push to baptize someone as soon as possible. If someone is putting it off because of inconvenience, then they probably really don't believe it is necessary for salvation, or they do not really have a heart for souls.
I have also baptized someone in a tub in their bathroom. It wasn't easy, but she went all the way under in Jesus name!
Where there is a will, there is a way.