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08-13-2013, 08:35 AM
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crakjak
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
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Originally Posted by CC1
UPDATE - Now that our 6 pm service is over I have the total count from our baptism weekend. 41 people came forward to publicly identify themselves with Christ by being baptized in Jesus Name.
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08-13-2013, 10:54 AM
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Yeshua is God
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
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Hmmmm....seems some of my posts are being deleted?
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Think of it as a miracle, nothing was lost.
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08-13-2013, 02:54 PM
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
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Think of it as a miracle, nothing was lost.
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Keep on and I'll write the New And Improved More Holy Than Thou Apostolic New Testament Version (the NAIMHTTANTV) to go into direct competition with your rewrite. It'll include such tidbits as....
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.
I'm warning ya!!
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08-13-2013, 03:37 PM
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
That's awesome!!
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Originally Posted by CC1
This weekend was one of our quarterly baptismal services where we leave our normal schedule of going through books of the bible verse by verse and chapter by chapter and the sermon is about baptism followed by baptisms. (we don't have a baptistry at our church so a portable tank is brought in for baptisms)
Today the pastor stated that in the 4 years our church has been in existence a total of about 350 people have been baptized in Jesus name.
This weekend was one of our quarterly Friday night Praise & Worship services that started the ball rolling with a baptismal service at the conclusion. 10 people were baptized then.
This morning at the 9 am service 4 more were baptized and my wife just got home from the 11 am service and said about 7 people were baptized at it.
We have one more service to go today (6pm) which I think is our largest and
certainly the one with the youngest demographic (lots of college kids). it wiill be interesting to see how many are baptized then. Right now the total for this weekend is about 20.
The last time we did a Praise & Worship Friday and Baptism weekend we baptized a total of 43 people.
I will update with a total after tonight and try to remember down the road when the baptism sermon comes on up our website to post a link in case anybody wants to watch it. The podcast of the sermon should be up on itunes probably tomorrow. (you could search by the pastor's name "Corey Trimble" or the church name "The Experience Community".
EDIT UPDATE - TOTAL COUNT FOR FOLKS BAPTIZED THIS WEEKEND IS 41
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08-13-2013, 03:38 PM
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
This is a great idea. I would like our church to try it. I'm going to bring it up, my pastor is always willing to try anything.
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I forgot to mention that my wife told me that a young woman baptized at the 11 am service was at church as a result of our BAR ministry which is an outreach where a group of church folks go out to our town square and set up to serve people leaving the bars and nightclubs free coffee and hot dogs to help sober them up before they drive. It also is an opener to talk to folks. Many of them have a void in their life and that is why they are at a bar in the first place. This young woman was at church with her mother so really that outreach resulted in two people coming to church.
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08-13-2013, 03:41 PM
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
You need to let go of your bitterness.
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Originally Posted by navygoat1998
See See Won, I can only hope and pray that the can they shatttalttama before anything happens to one of those 350 potential followers of Christ.  |
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08-13-2013, 04:52 PM
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Repent and believe the Gospel!
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
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Originally Posted by Renee29
You need to let go of your bitterness.
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Yes mam! 
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08-16-2013, 11:23 AM
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
Here is a link to the media page on The Experience Community website. If my link works correctly it should be to the video of Habakkuk Chapter 3 from a few Sundays ago.
We go through the Bible by book then every chapter and every verse. At least every verse until we get to the genealogies. then I wonder what pastor will do? LOL
This is not your father's church as you will see. For those of you entrenched in the mindset that church and preaching must be a certain way you will not like it probably. However the intent is to reach a generation that doesn't want anything to do with organized religion because they find it pretentious, artificial, etc. This does not mean it is. I have no problem with traditional church and am very comfortable with it. I am also over 50 years old and raised in church so it is the norm for me.
http://experiencecc.com/media.php
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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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08-16-2013, 03:43 PM
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Strange in a Strange Land...
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: The Island
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
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Originally Posted by CC1
I forgot to mention that my wife told me that a young woman baptized at the 11 am service was at church as a result of our BAR ministry which is an outreach where a group of church folks go out to our town square and set up to serve people leaving the bars and nightclubs free coffee and hot dogs to help sober them up before they drive. It also is an opener to talk to folks. Many of them have a void in their life and that is why they are at a bar in the first place. This young woman was at church with her mother so really that outreach resulted in two people coming to church.
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Originally Posted by n david
I love that outreach! What an awesome way to minister to the community.
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Si Si Juan (You in Espaniol) lol....
I did this ministry too. It is a neat idea. I would say that the people that are out there having these convos with people are incredible too because that is a very touchy topic, church and God, to anyone let alone drunk people. That is sweet man!!!
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08-16-2013, 03:48 PM
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Re: 350 People Baptized In Jesus Name
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Originally Posted by Jack Shephard
Si Si Juan (You in Espaniol) lol....
I did this ministry too. It is a neat idea. I would say that the people that are out there having these convos with people are incredible too because that is a very touchy topic, church and God, to anyone let alone drunk people. That is sweet man!!!
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At a leadership meeting a few weeks ago one of the BAR ministry leaders was telling a funny story about how a young man had come up to them the previous weekend and told them he wanted to apologize to them because a week or two before he had been verbally abusive to them and very ugly. He not only apologized but gave them a $20 offering and told them to keep up the good work, that he appreciated them and what they were doing.
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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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