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Re: Wounds That Never Heal
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Originally Posted by 1ofthechosen
CC you advocate the saying the sinners prayer and committing your life to Christ and Romans 10:13 as the plan of salvation?
What about belief in the Trinity, baptism in the titles or do you believe baptism to be necessary? Or only a outward profession of a inward work? |
Our church does not use "the sinners prayer". We do believe we are saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I previously stated that while i believe there are distinctions in Oneness and trinitarian theology regarding the godhead that both believe in one God. I believe that old time Pentecost misrepresents trinitarians as believing in "3 gods". So while I may have some differences in how I understand the godhead compared to some trinitarinas i believe we both believe in one God and the differences we have are not salvational.
I do not believe in baptismal regeneration and find that while officially UPC doctrine claims they don't the reality is they do. While I do not believe baptism is salvational in the sense a 3 stepper OP does I do beieve it is a very important part of ones walk with Christ and is an outward sign of one having accepted Christ and a committment to follow Him. As my pastor says the question is not "do I have to be baptized" but rather "why would I not be baptized?".
We baptize 300-400 people in Jesus name annually. Most of them on 3 weekends during the year when we have a Friday night Praise & Worship service followed by baptisms then the 4 weekend services are lessons on baptism then baptisms. Last night we had our summer Praise & Worship night on our town square with about 5,000 people and baptism right there on the square. 40-50 folks baptized in Jesus name last night then at the first of our 4 weekend services today, Saturday, at 5 pm we baptized 7 more. I am guessing that by our last Service Sunday we will have baptized 70-80 folks and maybe more.
So yes in no way shape or form is my doctrine or the church I attend old time Pentecost. My pastor is exUPC (former Youth Pastor of the local UPC church).
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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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