Baptisms

[Goodbook]

Just wondering how many water baptisms have you witnessed over the past year? In your baptist church or others.

I am thinking the baptist church I go to seems to be in name only cos I didnt witness any baptisms last year there was only ONE (i didnt see this one) and it was the husband of someone who already belonged to our church.

Is this normal? I thought baptists churches would be baptising new christians right and left!

 

[AvgJoe]

I go to a Baptist church. Between Jan 1 to March 29 (3 months), of this year, there has been 43 baptized. I didn't see them all, as we have 2 services on Sunday morning. It's a pretty big church, with an average Sunday School attendance of around 1,400 people.

I don't know the size of your church but it doesn't sound normal. Sounds like no one is being saved.

 

[Goodbook]

Woah well our church is small in comparison about 80 attend on a sunday.

 

[AvgJoe]

That's more like the church I attended as a young boy, we'd have 50 to 60 attend on Sunday morning. With a church of that size, no, I wouldn't expect to see alot of baptisms, and doubly so, if the church isn't growing. In my old church, you'd have mostly the same people attend each week and most, in not all, of them were already professing Christians, so non of them would be getting baptized. There was about 10, or so, of us kids and, ever now and then, one of us would come to know Christ so we would get baptized. That's the church I was baptized in, back in 1982. But no, considering the size of your church and, especially if it isn't growing, I wouldn't expect alot of baptisms.

 

[JESUS=G.O.A.T]

Just wondering how many water baptisms have you witnessed over the past year? In your baptist church or others.

I am thinking the baptist church I go to seems to be in name only cos I didnt witness any baptisms last year there was only ONE (i didnt see this one) and it was the husband of someone who already belonged to our church.

Is this normal? I thought baptists churches would be baptising new christians right and left!

Well first of all baptism isn't just something the baptist church does often many churches seek to do this often, I think that should be pointed out. Another thing though IK a evangelistic church a friend of mine used to go to that only did baptism during a certain time of year, maybe this church is like that?

 

[Goodbook]

No this baptist church doesnt seem to have them once a year or anything like that, just when people ask for them.

And im asking this in the baptist forum because ...well its baptist! A baptist church ought to have lots of baptisms thats the whole reason why its named baptist. If a baptist church doesnt have any baptisms it would be like a pub with no beer. Excuse the analogy.
Of course other churches have baptisms. This part of the forum is baptist, please post ONLY if you are in fellowship with baptists!

 

[Goodbook]

That's more like the church I attended as a young boy, we'd have 50 to 60 attend on Sunday morning. With a church of that size, no, I wouldn't expect to see alot of baptisms, and doubly so, if the church isn't growing. In my old church, you'd have mostly the same people attend each week and most, in not all, of them were already professing Christians, so non of them would be getting baptized. There was about 10, or so, of us kids and, ever now and then, one of us would come to know Christ so we would get baptized. That's the church I was baptized in, back in 1982. But no, considering the size of your church and, especially if it isn't growing, I wouldn't expect alot of baptisms.

Ok just wondering if that was normal. Yes well the church was planted about 70 years ago now so has an aging congregation. When you mean growing, do you mean more young people coming or growing spiritually? Maybe its just going through a dry period?

 

[AvgJoe]

Ok just wondering if that was normal. Yes well the church was planted about 70 years ago now so has an aging congregation. When you mean growing, do you mean more young people coming or growing spiritually? Maybe its just going through a dry period?

I meant growing in numbers, more people coming to/joining the church. In my childhood church, about the same 50 to 60 people came each week, so we didn't see alot of baptisms because most of the people there were already professing Christians/saved. If the church has a constant flow of new people/visitors, you'd expect to see more people getting saved and being baptized.

My current church was started in 1903. It started with a handful of people and now has over 20,000 people on the church roll, although, only about 5,000 attend on any given Sunday.

 

[Goodbook]

Hmm we dont seem to have many visitors or a constant flow its quite settled it does seem families come and go a bit.

I think its quite exciting to see new christians being saved and to witness a baptism. I suppose if I went to a larger, newer church I would see more.

 

[AvgJoe]

I to love to see new brothers and sisters enter into the family of God and to follow that with their baptism, as Christ commanded. In a larger church, you should see more.