|
Re: Baptism Weekend - 72 Baptized in Jesus Name!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
What made you choose this church and this preacher? Or was it because the church was across the street from your home?  |
We had been a part of another local church for about a year before this became our church. We loved the church we were a part of and the only reason we moved to this one was that my daughter and her husband were members and she was a praise and worship singer there. We visited their second service a few times after ours to hear her sing and support her. We got to know the church and pastor and were very impressed with both. At that time attendance between the three services was probably about 150 people.
Eventually I started wondering if we should go help out this new small church that had almost no financial base (college kids and homeless people made up the bulk of the membership) but loved our church so much I never felt a clear answer either way. One day after church I talked to my pastor about the situation and he did something I never witnessed much in old time Pentecost. He knew this pastor and his work and said he was a good man and he knew this small church probably needed elder saints and help. That we should tell the pastor we were going to go there for a few months to help out and see where things lead. My pastor told me that after these few months if we felt that was the place we needed to be for us to stay but if not his church was our home and we were always welcome home.
Ironically the small church I went to help is now at least twice as big as the "bigger" church I left three years ago.
Although I don't believe one will miss heaven if not baptized I do believe it is an important thing and also while I don't believe a person will miss heaven over the words said over them at baptism I do believe that the correct, biblical way is in Jesus name so it was important to me that a church I am part of baptizes in Jesus name. I have been a part of just 4 churches over the last 31 years and all have baptized in Jesus name. One in the state we previously lived in for 16 years and then 3 at our present location in Middle Tennessee where we have lived the past 15 years. About 10 of these last fifteen years was spent at Christ Church Nashville before we had to find a church closer to home.
__________________
"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"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"
|
Threaded Mode
