There are MANY ministers who are "1 steppers".... including my own pastor. We still baptize in Jesus name, but as a condition of obedience to the scripture. We are considered "saved" from the moment we simply ASK God to SAVE us!
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Even most "infidels" and atheistic writers I have read were ladies and gentlemen in their conduct (Ayn Rand, Steven J. Gould, Carl Sagan, etc).
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This is great incite. One man that I follow quite a bit is James Randi. He IS an avowed atheist but also has done a great service to mankind through his exposure of hucksters passing tricks off as supernatural skills. Things like psychic surgery, astrology, water witching, spiritualism, and many televangelists. Being a magician myself I have an innate outlook into how people tend to perceive things.
An old pastor of ours, Ernest Maki, was a wonderful man. I was going through a VERY difficult time then so did not have nearly the relationship that I would have wanted, but because of him, I stayed around! He was a UPCer his whole life but realized the power of GRACE and more importantly, the Blood, toward the end of his life.
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