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Originally Posted by DrPhil
My dad was saved at a Weslyan Methodist church as a boy. He meet my mother who was UPC in high school. He received the HG and became Pentecostal. He attended ABI pastored a UPC for many years but had one fatal flaw. He believed he was saved when God radically changed his life when he repented as a boy in that Methodist church. I guess he was too PCI in his thinking. Today dad and I pastor a church where Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, etc. are coming and receiving the Holy Spirit. We aren't UPC. I guess you could call us undercover P"CI. I'm very thinkful, however, for my UPC upbringing. I really wish the PCI doctrine of salvation had prevailed. It would have been a "kinder, gentler, movement."
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On March 28, 1955 at the age of 17 I asked Jesus Christ to come into my life. It was a Monday night. This happened in Union Grove, Wisconsin. Jesus came in and my life was drastically changed. The change was so evident that 51 years later at a high school reunion some folks mentioned it. I was saved, born again, transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light, placed into Christ by the Holy Spirit. Several months later I heard about the Holy Ghost Baptism and I heard about water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. On October 27, 1955, a Thursday night, I was baptized in Jesus' name at Elim Tabernacle in Milwaukee, WI. On May 20, 1956 which was Pentecost Sunday, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit at Bethel Tabernacle in Racine, WI. It is my opinion that the water baptism and the Spirit baptism did not save me but were steps in walking with the Lord and growing in Him. I consider the March 28, 1955 date to be the time of my salvation/conversion/justification/regeneration. I too wish that the PCI doctrine of salvation had been allowed to remain in the UPC and had prevailed.