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Re: Baptism Weekend - 72 Baptized in Jesus Name!
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Originally Posted by Abiding Now
This is what I meant, when I posted "typical PCI doctrine".
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Agreed except more like the way PCI folks long ago. They emphasized baptism to the point many would not have known if they were in a PCI or 3 stepper church.
I think we emphasize baptism much more than many PCI folks do today. We just approach it a different way. Our approach is not do you have to be baptized to be saved but why would anybody professing to be a christian not want to be baptized? It is ones public identification with Christ and something the bible tells us to do as followers of Christ. Obviously this puts us in a different doctrinal position than 3 steppers but ironically we end up baptizing many more people in Jesus name than any of the 3 stepper churches in our area. Over 200 this year alone so far and over 500 in the past five years.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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