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Thread: MW: Bizarre Practices The Second: Protestants
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Chapelhead*
Ship’s Photographer
# 1143
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Almost the only time a Church Meeting is of any interest is the first one after being admitted to membership, when you can read the minutes of the previous meeting to find out what was said about you during the discussion of admission to membership. 
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Benedikt Gott Geschickt!
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Wood
The Milkman of Human Kindness
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Originally posted by Hooker's Trick:
Now, these testimonials. I rather imagine them taking place like this:
Wood: "Hello, my name is Wood, and I am a Christian."
Baptists: "Hello Wood!"
Wood: "Before I was a Christian I whored around and drank myself silly."
Baptists: "Amen".
Wood: "After I found Jesus, I don't do that stuff anymore."
Baptists: "Amen brother!"
Wood: "Now that I found Jesus, I am saved."
Baptists: "Amen Amen."
Wood: "And now instead of boozing and shagging, I evangelise people."
Baptists: "Amen!"
Followed by some splashing in a large pool.
Now that I have recovered from my paroxysms of helpless laughter... HT - first, you clearly haven't been to a business meeting. It's a different proposition entirely, although Astro is (hopefully) taking the mickey a little about the content... Now. First: a 'testimonial' is a footie match rlayed in honour of a retiring footballer. A 'testimony' is exactly what it says - a bearing of witness. Leave out the 'amen's', first. Only our American cousins do that, AFAIK. And the statements are rarely so simple. Think instead as a very short sermon, delivered using personal experience rather than whatever it is your preacher man uses to make his points with.
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Narcissism.
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Chapelhead*
Ship’s Photographer
# 1143
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"Dedicating" babies was quite ususal in the Baptist circles I frequented. And I would say it is not so much dry baptism as the Churching of Women without the overtones of ritual uncleanness.
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Benedikt Gott Geschickt!
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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Originally posted by daisymay:
We had a discussion about this, when some Anglican friends visited a baptism and some of the candidates were baptised "in the name of Jesus" and others "trinitarianly". They came to the conclusion that as it all took place in the context of a trinitarian service, the baptism was validly trinitarian, and the words were not to be taken legalistically.
Carys,
I think it was just the idiosyncricity of the different people doing the dunking, and because there were many candidates, the baptisers changed every so often - they didn't have parents baptising their own children, for example. The other thing was that the candidates gave their testimony while still dry, but while in the water they were prayed for and prophesied over, so it took a while for each baptism. And I think that the church as a whole woudn't have distinguished or bothered about the actual words, as they were not into the legality of the thing. The importance was the actual public witness to having accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour. That's what made the baptism valid, not a form of words, although since everyone was well taught  , they would have automatically used the right words as they would come from deep within them.
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