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Baptism Weekend - 72 Baptized in Jesus Name!
Some of you have seen my thread about this past weekend's "Raised to Life' night of praise and worship at my church.
When we do these Praise & Worship nights (usually quarterly) we also make that weekend a baptism weekend with baptisms on the Praise & Worship night and then at all three Sunday services.
Our church is not in a conventional church building so there is no baptistry. For our baptismal services we bring in two very large rubber tubs (maybe for watering cattle I think).
I just saw the total numbers and can tell you that between Friday nights Praise & Worship night and the three services yesterday a total of 72 people were baptized in Jesus name!
Note: for those of you concerned that we don't offer baptisms every service I assure you that if someone wants to be baptized before one of our baptismal services we will gladly find a place to do it.
Our church is a little over five years old and has now baptized well over 500 people in Jesus name over those five years.
When we moved into our new building about 1 1/2 years ago we were averaging around 450 folks between our three Sunday services. The first Sunday was Easter Sunday 2013 and we had 703 people there. It has been steady growth since then with 1,229 in attendance yesterday.
Great numbers but when you look at the number of people in my town of 100,000 that don't attend any church on Sunday we have a lot more to do.
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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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