Lisa0315
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If you were to show up and do all that at the churches I attended in my childhood, you probably would have come close to ending up in the hospital.
In one church, I surmise that the pastor would have summoned all the men of the church to physically make you leave; You would be asked to not come back.
At another church, the pastor would have no doubt pointed his finger in your face and "slightly raise his voice" until he turned white and breathless, then he would've asked you to leave and be about the "devils business".
And at yet another church, the pastor's son (assistant pastor) would have taken you into his office, thrown you against the wall and hit you over the head with a bible, perhaps he would've broken your nose--as he once did to a teen who refused to go on a "soul-winning" trip-- then he would have had several people testify for him that he did not touch you. You would be welcomed back as long as you repeated the sinner's prayer, publically apologized to everyone in the congregation, then got baptized so that they could add you to their church statistics in order to brag about how many baptisms and sinners' prayers took place because of them.
I do not know what kind of Baptist church you attend, but those are some pretty incredible stories. Did you change churches? Did you lose your faith because of these events?
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