Tonight I visited my daughter and her husband's Baptist church for the dedication of my granddaughter.
I knew from them that it is one of those "progressive" Baptist churches that has praise and worship music much like a charismatic church, they clap their hands, etc.
The auditorium was very modern. Exposed A/C ductwork. metal beams, etc all painted black. Seats 2,000 including balcony. No pews, padded seats like you see in a lot of modern churches. Four big projections screen across the front. Very shallow platform but wide. Not deep enough for a choir if you wanted one. They use a band and praise and worship singers.
Tonight's service included baby dedications and there were about 15+ babies dedicated.
I missed most of the service because pulling in the parking lot I remembered that I had started putting water in the swimming pool after lunch and after checking on it every hour for a couple of hours had forgotten!!!! It was 6 pm then and I had visions of water cascading over the edge of my pool. The baby dedication was at the beginning of service so as soon as it was done I drove home to take care of the pool and then back. I got back for the last 15 minutes of service.
They showed a slide presentation on the big screen of a big outdoor baptismal service they had last Wednesday. They baptized 91 people!!!! Unfortunetely not in Jesus name.
What was rather ironic is that the last slide in the presentation that held on the screens for a while was a graphic of the cross and then
Acts 19:5 below it "When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus".
Before service began I grinned and whispered to my son and daughter " do you think they would freak out if I started speaking in tongues in the middle of service?".