I was raised in a Baptist church all my life but have moved to a non denominational church. I still consider myself a Baptist in theology but a Pentecostal in worship without the Calvin and Arminian confusion polluting everything.
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Were you always Baptist?
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I was brought up Baptist and still hold a couple Baptist churches very close to my heart and am friends with several Baptist pastors. We moved closer to my wife’s family and they attended a Pentecostal costal church and it was a relatively easy transition considering the churches I attended definitely leaned to the Bapticostal side of things.
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I will try to make this story as short as possible so you don't get too bored to read it. LOL
I was raised baptist. BUT...My parents basically forced my brothers and I to go to church. STORY: I have 5 brothers. My parents, well even tho they were raised catholics, basically ended up being atheists.
They raised us with no religious background what so ever. IMO, It made life more of a challenge. But God used it for good.
Anway, It started off by a neighbor of ours that lived down the road from us stopping at our house and inviting us to go to church with them, including my parents. My parents basically took advantage of the opportunity to get us 6 ids out of the house so they could have some alone time.(with having 6 kids, I probably would too, LOL ) The only brother that never went to church was my youngest. He was always babied. ;p
Anyway, it started off by my 3 older brothers going several times. Then after seeing them going every Sunday, it got me curious about it. So one day I decided to start going. I was probably 8 maybe 9 years old at the time. Then later my younger (not youngest) brother followed. As much as my parents did force us to go, I loved it and always looked forward to going. My brothers didn't enjoy it as much but still went. As the years went on and we all went our separate ways..married, jobs, life, my brothers stopped going to church all together, and I still went (before during and after marriage) with my husband and kids, but switched to Pentecostal/evangelical. I was baptized and my kids were dedicated there. After 10 years we have felt called to find another church. We ended up finding the church we are at now, which is Baptist. So again for the last 10 plus years we have been baptist again and God has a plan for us here because he doesn't want us to leave.
I was raised baptist. BUT...My parents basically forced my brothers and I to go to church. STORY: I have 5 brothers. My parents, well even tho they were raised catholics, basically ended up being atheists.
They raised us with no religious background what so ever. IMO, It made life more of a challenge. But God used it for good. Anway, It started off by a neighbor of ours that lived down the road from us stopping at our house and inviting us to go to church with them, including my parents. My parents basically took advantage of the opportunity to get us 6 ids out of the house so they could have some alone time.(with having 6 kids, I probably would too, LOL
) The only brother that never went to church was my youngest. He was always babied. ;pAnyway, it started off by my 3 older brothers going several times. Then after seeing them going every Sunday, it got me curious about it. So one day I decided to start going. I was probably 8 maybe 9 years old at the time. Then later my younger (not youngest) brother followed. As much as my parents did force us to go, I loved it and always looked forward to going. My brothers didn't enjoy it as much but still went. As the years went on and we all went our separate ways..married, jobs, life, my brothers stopped going to church all together, and I still went (before during and after marriage) with my husband and kids, but switched to Pentecostal/evangelical. I was baptized and my kids were dedicated there. After 10 years we have felt called to find another church. We ended up finding the church we are at now, which is Baptist. So again for the last 10 plus years we have been baptist again and God has a plan for us here because he doesn't want us to leave.
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An interesting story - I'm sure your neighbour was thrilled that you came to know the Lord. Praying for the salvation of the rest of your family.
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I haven't seen that quote before. I like the one from Elisabeth Elliot.
I gather you're a believer, the same as your father? A former pastor at our church has 3 children, only one of whom is going on with the Lord.
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It is good when a believer's children are believers too, a tremendous blessing, but:
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn "'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law--a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.' (Matthew 10:34-36)
It has been said that God has no grand-children. God Bless You
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Yep. I've been a Baptist and have been going to the same Baptist church since I was in my mom's womb. And the preaching is sound, I like the life group I go to, and there are so many nice, godly people there, so I just never left.
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That's nice. It's unusual for someone to remain in the same church throughout their life.
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Came from a roman catholic background. Got baptized,communion, and than confirmation. Unfortunately my dad and step mother were not keen on going to church so the religious study I got were from the catholic school I went which wasn't much. It wasn't until I was 25 that I decided to join the Baptist church and later on that I gave life to Christ and was baptized. I really liked this church but there wasn't anybody my age there so I started to go to a pentecostal church. Years later I moved to different city and I am attending a baptist/ non denomination church which I like alot. It is big church compared to the other churches that I have been to , it feels like home in this church.
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I was baptized an infant into the Roman Catholic Church in 1944, and when older attended enough catechism to complete First Holy Communion and Confirmation.
My siblings are Catholic, my mother was Catholic, my eldest brother entered the priesthood and ended up a Friar. My wife is a former Catholic, her dad was Catholic, his wife was Catholic, and my wife's cousins are Catholic; one of them is qualified to teach Catechism.
I was loyal to Rome until I turned 24. At that time I was approached by a Conservative Baptist minister who asked me if I was prepared for Christ's return.
Well; I must've been either asleep or absent the day that the nuns talked about Jesus coming back because that man's question was the very first time in my whole life that somebody told me.
My initial reaction was alarm because I instinctively knew that were I called on the carpet for a face-to-face with Jesus, it would not go well for me because I had a lot to answer for. Then I became indignant and demanded to know why Jesus would come back. That's when I found out for the very first time that it was in the plan for Christ to take over the world.
Then the minister asked me if I was going to heaven. Well; of course I had no clue because Catholics honestly don't know what to expect when they pass away. They're crossing their fingers while in the back of their mind dreading the worst.
Then the man said; "Don't you know that Jesus died for your sins?"
Well; I had been taught in catechism that Jesus died for the sins of the world; that much I knew; but honestly believed all along that he had been an unfortunate victim of circumstances beyond his control. It was a shock to discover that Jesus was thinking of me when he went to the cross, viz: my sins were among the sins of the world that Jesus took to the cross with him.
At that very instant-- scarcely a nanosecond --something took over in my mind as I fully realized, to my great relief, that heaven was no longer out of reach, rather, well within my grasp!
That was an amazing experience. In just the two or three minutes that I talked with that Baptist minister, I obtained an understanding of Jesus' crucifixion that many tedious years of RCC catechism classes had somehow failed to get across. Consequently, my confidence in the Roman Catholic Church was shattered like a bar of peanut brittle candy dropped on the sidewalk from the tippy top of the Chrysler building.
Long story short; I eventually went with that man to his church and, along with him and a couple of elders, knelt at the rail down front and prayed a really simple, naive prayer that went something like this;
"God, I know I'm a sinner. I would like to take advantage of your son's death"
My prayer wasn't much to brag about; but it was the smartest sixteen words I'd ever spoken up to that time.
● Matt 10:32 . .Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
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I was baptized an infant into the Roman Catholic Church in 1944, and when older attended enough catechism to complete First Holy Communion and Confirmation.
My siblings are Catholic, my mother was Catholic, my eldest brother entered the priesthood and ended up a Friar. My wife is a former Catholic, her dad was Catholic, his wife was Catholic, and my wife's cousins are Catholic; one of them is qualified to teach Catechism.
I was loyal to Rome until I turned 24. At that time I was approached by a Conservative Baptist minister who asked me if I was prepared for Christ's return.
Well; I must've been either asleep or absent the day that the nuns talked about Jesus coming back because that man's question was the very first time in my whole life that somebody told me.
My initial reaction was alarm because I instinctively knew that were I called on the carpet for a face-to-face with Jesus, it would not go well for me because I had a lot to answer for. Then I became indignant and demanded to know why Jesus would come back. That's when I found out for the very first time that it was in the plan for Christ to take over the world.
Then the minister asked me if I was going to heaven. Well; of course I had no clue because Catholics honestly don't know what to expect when they pass away. They're crossing their fingers while in the back of their mind dreading the worst.
Then the man said; "Don't you know that Jesus died for your sins?"
Well; I had been taught in catechism that Jesus died for the sins of the world; that much I knew; but honestly believed all along that he had been an unfortunate victim of circumstances beyond his control. It was a shock to discover that Jesus was thinking of me when he went to the cross, viz: my sins were among the sins of the world that Jesus took to the cross with him.
At that very instant-- scarcely a nanosecond --something took over in my mind as I fully realized, to my great relief, that heaven was no longer out of reach, rather, well within my grasp!
That was an amazing experience. In just the two or three minutes that I talked with that Baptist minister, I obtained an understanding of Jesus' crucifixion that many tedious years of RCC catechism classes had somehow failed to get across. Consequently, my confidence in the Roman Catholic Church was shattered like a bar of peanut brittle candy dropped on the sidewalk from the tippy top of the Chrysler building.
Long story short; I eventually went with that man to his church and, along with him and a couple of elders, knelt at the rail down front and prayed a really simple, naive prayer that went something like this;
"God, I know I'm a sinner. I would like to take advantage of your son's death"
My prayer wasn't much to brag about; but it was the smartest sixteen words I'd ever spoken up to that time.
● Matt 10:32 . .Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
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Thank you for sharing your story. So glad you found a church where you feel at home.
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What an amazing testimony - thank you for sharing!
Praying for your family's salvation.
Gillian
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Yes. My family were Progressive Christians. We believed that it was okay to have sex at home and drink wine at parties.
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I'd never heard of Progressive Christians until I read your post. Did your whole family leave or just you? What drew you to the Baptist church?
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I was saved by the Grace of the Lord while in College, attended AOG, becoming a teaching Elder there, then convicted on Charismatic chaos, becoming a free will baptist, and now a reformed Baptist!
I was saved by the Grace of the Lord while in College, attended AOG, becoming a teaching Elder there, then convicted on Charismatic chaos, becoming a free will baptist, and now a reformed Baptist!
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Praise God for your salvation at college. Many people find Christ there.
What is the difference between a free will Baptist and a reformed one?
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What is the difference between a free will Baptist and a reformed one?
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