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Originally Posted by Mr. Steinway
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They then left to go behind the stage to be baptized while the congregation and choir were singing. There was no mic, so you couldn't hear what the preacher was saying. After each person went under water, the congregation would cheer and clap while singing the song.
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So, it's not enough that the pews are bathed and/or blasted with fairly high decibel music and choirs for about 60-80% of an OP service (at least in the case in the large Apostolic church I visited past Sunday AM, and seemed typical.) But NO, come time for repentant sinners to be baptized in Jesus Name--the event the church longs for, prays for, fasts for--and apostolics STILL want/need/prefer a layer of choir noise to drown out the words of this holy event? (If I'm interpreting the above quote correctly,) another comfy blanket of practiced music? Thanks for nothing, multi-media Pentecost. To each their own, but I get more excitement in hearing the words of a Jesus Name baptism than to hear (yet more!) of any annoynted Pentecostal choir. Is there NO point where we just cease some of the manufactured emotional helps and instead settle down to witness the Real Thing? (Not suggesting music isn't the "real thing," but does seem rather inconsequencial compared with the eternity of the new birth process.) So why even slightly cloak or obfuscate the details of the JN formula which many apostolics believe is so essential? Don't we rather want to reinforce by public demonstration how baptisms should be done? The singing in heaven should be sufficient.
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