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Re: Homestead Heritage
I just remembered that you asked this question, yisraelm. Now that I have gotten to know what you believe, you might be interested in how people get baptized there.
I saw the thick book that someone trying to get baptized there had to sign. Not only is this book for baptism, but for those wanting to take communion. They don't take communion regularly, sometimes it is years between communion services. Some people that even grow up there are not allowed to be baptized until they are in their mid to upper 20's!
To get baptized they have to sign their name about 100 times to statements about what the church believes. They have to promise they will home school their kids, never leave that church body unless they find another church with "greater light" - and they don't know of another church with greater light, by the way. ;-) If they ever decide to leave, they are considered to be going to hell unless they come back.
Getting baptized is not on their profession that Jesus is lord of their life, but that they will always agree to everything the leadership comes up with in the future and all that their secret literature says now. (Enough literature to fill a few book cases I might add!) They have to come to a place where they believe that the leadership is Jesus in the flesh and that the secret writings are all true and to be followed.
When leaders deem members not worthy of taking communion, those members are not allowed to go to Sunday church meetings for months and possibly years. I am surprised that people are drawn to this place. Once they get people hooked, very few get away.
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