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03-16-2009, 08:59 AM
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Unique Baptismal Service
Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending a baptismal service at a local Charismatic Church where my co-worker was getting baptized. I was curious as to the formula they would use and was pleasantly surprised:
They baptized 62 people and before they were baptized read the candidate's personal commitment to the Lord and then they baptized them using the following formula:
I now baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost by the name and authority of our Lord Jesus Christ. I thought that it was perfect!
The service was personal, and scripturally correct in every way! The following worship/Encounter service was equally as wonderful. I love to see how God is moving across all denominational lines.
Blessings, Rhoni
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03-16-2009, 09:13 AM
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03-16-2009, 09:23 AM
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Re: Unique Baptismal Service
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Originally Posted by Rhoni
Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending a baptismal service at a local Charismatic Church where my co-worker was getting baptized. I was curious as to the formula they would use and was pleasantly surprised:
They baptized 62 people and before they were baptized read the candidate's personal commitment to the Lord and then they baptized them using the following formula:
I now baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost by the name and authority of our Lord Jesus Christ. I thought that it was perfect!
The service was personal, and scripturally correct in every way! The following worship/Encounter service was equally as wonderful. I love to see how God is moving across all denominational lines.
Blessings, Rhoni
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Im glad for each personal commitment to Christ. Im sure they are not aware of situations with how to baptize. The formula they used is very typical in Trinity Churches. Its exactly the one the Ceylon Pentecostal Mission uses.
It will lead to confusion down the road but everyone has to work out their own salvation.
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03-16-2009, 09:28 AM
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Re: Unique Baptismal Service
I don't know how they baptize at my wife's trinny Charismatic church. The church does not have it's own baptismal tank (it is a temporary location rented while they prepare to build.
They have baptisms using the baptismal tanks at other churches then show still pics on the big video screen during service of the baptisms that were recently done.
I was at my wifes church yesterday and they showed pics of two recent baptisms and one of them was a college guy being baptized in someones big garden tub in a home. It was pretty cool. He was not a real big guy and he was in the tub with his legs crossed. They apprently got him all the way under.
I just wish they had audio to see if they add "Jesus Christ" to the typical trinny formula of "name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost". This is a daughter church of the big charismatic church that Pianoman and his wife went to for a couple of years awhile back and they said that at the main church they played music during the baptisms so you couldn't tell how they were baptizing there either.
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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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03-16-2009, 09:35 AM
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Re: Unique Baptismal Service
It seems their "formula" is fine. Can't see where anyone would be upset at all.
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03-16-2009, 09:42 AM
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Re: Unique Baptismal Service
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Originally Posted by D. Wright
It seems their "formula" is fine. Can't see where anyone would be upset at all.
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Obviously you haven't posted here much! LOL!!!
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"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"
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03-16-2009, 09:47 AM
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Re: Unique Baptismal Service
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Originally Posted by D. Wright
It seems their "formula" is fine. Can't see where anyone would be upset at all.
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Trinitarians dont see Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not THE NAME. It will be used by them to promote 3 separate and distinct persons each one being God in his own right. Thats the confusion that will come their way.
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03-16-2009, 10:20 AM
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Re: Unique Baptismal Service
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Trinitarians dont see Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not THE NAME. It will be used by them to promote 3 separate and distinct persons each one being God in his own right. Thats the confusion that will come their way.
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You mean like in scriptures like these where Jesus talks about the Father as somewhat seperate?;
Matthew 10:32 (King James Version)
32Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
John 16:16 (King James Version)
16A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
John 16:28 (King James Version)
28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
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"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"
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03-16-2009, 10:31 AM
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Re: Unique Baptismal Service
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Originally Posted by CC1
You mean like in scriptures like these where Jesus talks about the Father as somewhat seperate?;
Matthew 10:32 (King James Version)
32Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
John 16:16 (King James Version)
16A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
John 16:28 (King James Version)
28I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. |
Lol - - that's what I thought when I read that.
Talk about confusing.
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03-16-2009, 11:45 AM
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Re: Unique Baptismal Service
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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple
Im glad for each personal commitment to Christ. Im sure they are not aware of situations with how to baptize. The formula they used is very typical in Trinity Churches. Its exactly the one the Ceylon Pentecostal Mission uses.
It will lead to confusion down the road but everyone has to work out their own salvation.
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I think we assume too much. The baptizing them in the authority and name of Jesus Christ may be exactly how they interpret the scriptures to mean...I am not sure why we think we have a monoploy on what is considered "the truth". Corinthians tells us that... we all see through a glass darkly.
It astounds me how that when someone does it exactly right we can say, they did it accidently/innocently, or that they do it but don't understand it.
Amazing.
Rhoni
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