Baptism Weekend - 72 Baptized in Jesus Name!

[Abiding Now]

Originally Posted by CC1

LOL!!! I have sat under his ministry for three years now and he probably the least conflicted of any pastor I have sat under. Things that are black and white and we know for sure he has strong positions on. Things like prophecy, etc he has positions he believes are most likely but doesn't present his view as the only possible one. Regarding salvation and baptism he is not conflicted at all. He believes baptism is very important and a commandment we are to follow. He just isn't ready to condem somebody to hell who hasn't done it yet.

Did you listen to his message on fmily we were discussing here also? (I am assuming your comments were about his baptism sermon)

Originally Posted by CC1

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.

This is what I meant, when I posted "typical PCI doctrine".