From Pentecostal to Baptist

[Jonathan Mathews]

Hello guys,

I was raised in an Eastern European Pentecostal Church. I was a hardcore Pentecostal while a teenager. I went to a Pentecostal Bible College. Later, I met my wife, who was from a Baptist church. We had no issue with our denominations. With more Bible study, I slowly started leaning towards a Baptist church. We started attending a local Baptist mega-church. Teaching and worship is great, but I'm thinking to join the Eastern European Baptist Church community. Smaller churches are a closer knit community, whereas in the large church, I feel like just a number.

My wife didn't convert me or anything. It was a personal choice. I'm not sure if I needed to create a thread about this, but wanted to let you guys know that I consider myself a Baptist now.

That's cool! I heard the Truth of Hell, learned tons of Scriptures, and was baptized in an Independent, Fundamental Baptist church called "Burge Terrace Baptist" in Indianapolis. All their pastors came from Bob Jones University. Later, I went to an Assemblies of God Church. It appears to me that people with certain Spiritual Giftings tend to congregate into denominations. For example, Teachers and Pastors with the gifts of Words of Knowledge and Wisdom are often in Baptist churches whereas Prophets with the Gift of Tongues/Interpreation and Prophesy are in Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, and other "charismatic" groups. I have to say that I've never been put out of a Baptist church, but I've been put out of an Assemblies of God church for obeying the Holy Spirit. Baptist is the denomination I feel the closest to, but I am am in a Presbyterian assembly most Sundays but not a member. Somehow, deep within, I still consider myself a member of Burge Terrace Baptist Church, even though I only go back to visit several times a year. I still feel the most at home there.

 

[lismore]

From Pentecostal to Baptist

Good to meet you- same journey as myself. There's a young Romanian couple in my Church, great people, there seems to be much gospel work going in Romania these days

 

[High Fidelity]

Wise move. There's a lot of nonsense within the Pentecostal churches.

 

[Sam91]

And me