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65+ People Baptized in Jesus Name this weekend
Our church had it's quarterly "Praise & Worship Night" this past Friday. Our pastor also quarterly teaches a full lesson on baptism and these coincide with our Praise & Worship weekends.
We then incorporate a time for baptisms into the Praise & Worship night followed up by bapitsms at all three services after the baptism lesson the following Sunday.
This past Friday night 35+ folks were baptized in Jesus Name and then we baptized 30+ more between the three Sunday services for a weekend total of more than 65 people baptized.
This puts us at baptizing around 500 people in Jesus name during the 5 year history of our church. The pastor mentioned Sunday morning that we don't put a lot of importance on numbers at our church but baptisms are one number that we do because of what it represents - folks identifying themselves with Christ and symbolically burying their old man.
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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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