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02-20-2017, 12:49 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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Originally Posted by CC1
This weekend was another one of our approximately quarterly Praise & Worship weekends that is comprised of a special Friday night Praise & Worship service that is about 3 hours of just that with a baptismal service at the end.
Then the 4 regular weekend services (5pm & 7pm Saturday and 9am & 11am Sunday) are lessons on baptism with a baptismal service at the end of each of those as well.
We had 41 people come forward to be baptized Friday night and then 43 more over the four regular services for a total of 83 souls baptized in Jesus Name this weekend!
I was baptized many decades ago and have witnessed probably thousands of baptisms in my lifetime but it never gets old to see people choose to identify themselves with Christ in the waters of baptism and in His name.
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Praise God! I rejoice for the souls who have been baptized in Jesus name!
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Rather then building a new building, after FPC Palm Bay filled our sanctuary (which seats 1K) we opted for starting daughter works in nearby cities. We are lucky to have enough talented people to provide leadership in the daughter work churches.
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THIS is awesome! I think this is what every church should do that outgrows its seating... send out people who have a heart for the lost, and support them as they begin. This would seem how the early church grew exponentially... they didn't get bigger buildings... instead they spread out, and pushed out into their communities.
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02-20-2017, 02:39 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
THIS is awesome! I think this is what every church should do that outgrows its seating... send out people who have a heart for the lost, and support them as they begin. This would seem how the early church grew exponentially... they didn't get bigger buildings... instead they spread out, and pushed out into their communities.
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My home church in Knoxville, IA never grew much beyond 100 members at any given time, but many daughter works were grown from that church. It's the oldest Oneness church in Iowa, and the source of many of the others in surrounding communities.
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02-20-2017, 04:33 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
When are you all getting another building?
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If we could get enough Sunday folks to move to the Saturday services so the attendance was evenly distributed theoretically we could currently grow to 5,200 in our current building. So no new building planned right now.
Our next step is a daughter work that will start in September in a small town about 15-20 miles from our town.
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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"
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"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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02-20-2017, 05:41 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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Originally Posted by CC1
If we could get enough Sunday folks to move to the Saturday services so the attendance was evenly distributed theoretically we could currently grow to 5,200 in our current building. So no new building planned right now.
Our next step is a daughter work that will start in September in a small town about 15-20 miles from our town.
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Two services?
How about if the Saturday people want to be with the Sunday people?
Get an airplane hanger. 
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02-20-2017, 05:52 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Two services?
How about if the Saturday people want to be with the Sunday people?
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LOL!! We currently have 4 weekend services. Two on Saturday (5 pm & 7pm) and two on Sunday (9am & 11 am)
I don't know if we want a sanctuary any larger as it starts to get more impersonal but I don't count anything out down the road. I think the next steps to handle growth will be these daughter works or satellite locations. Our town of just over 100,000 is big enough we could have at least two more locations here to keep the church within 15 minutes of folks homes. This is something Scupples on here and her husband have done in their base town.
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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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02-20-2017, 05:58 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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Originally Posted by CC1
LOL!! We currently have 4 weekend services. Two on Saturday (5 pm & 7pm) and two on Sunday (9am & 11 am)
I don't know if we want a sanctuary any larger as it starts to get more impersonal but I don't count anything out down the road. I think the next steps to handle growth will be these daughter works or satellite locations. Our town of just over 100,000 is big enough we could have at least two more locations here to keep the church within 15 minutes of folks homes. This is something Scupples on here and her husband have done in their base town.
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Bro, 5,200 you won't know anyone outside of 50 people at the most. I mean 50 people you know well, and even less who you know personally well.
I think the United States is moving towards house churches, and communities of house churches. A town of a 100,000 how many people do you know personally outside your church family?
Keep baptizing them in Jesus name and praying them through to the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
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"all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
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02-20-2017, 06:10 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Bro, 5,200 you won't know anyone outside of 50 people at the most. I mean 50 people you know well, and even less who you know personally well.
I think the United States is moving towards house churches, and communities of house churches. A town of a 100,000 how many people do you know personally outside your church family?
Keep baptizing them in Jesus name and praying them through to the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
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We do have over 70 "small groups" that meet midweek, many of them are home groups.
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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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02-20-2017, 06:27 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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We do have over 70 "small groups" that meet midweek, many of them are home groups.
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How many pastors do you have in your church?
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"all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
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02-20-2017, 06:58 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
How many pastors do you have in your church?
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Hmmm.....I don't know for sure but here are ones I know of;
1. Senior Pastor
2. Executive Pastor (soon to also be pastor of our daughter work)
3. College age Pastor
4. HS & Teen Pastor
5. Children's Pastor
6. One I can't think of the title of but something like pastoral care
7. I don't know if the outreach leader is part time paid or a volunteer.
Then of course a music director or pastor and a lot of volunteer leaders for Sunday School, hospitality, security, homeless ministry, etc
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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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02-20-2017, 07:00 PM
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Re: 84 Baptized in Jesus Name This Weekend!
I forgot to mention that they planned in advance this time to start a 9 weeks foundations in about a week so those getting baptized can begin being discipled in an organized way.
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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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