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| Jeannette Registered user Username: Jeannette Post Number: 92 Registered: 3-2003 |
I just wanted to share with all of you my grand-daughters baptism. She was baptized this morning at the church's 3rd aniversary celebration. I wish I could share the news with my family but I really don't want my joy to turn into sadness. Please pray for her that she will continue growing in Jesus. | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1192 Registered: 3-2004  |
Jeannette, That is so nice. I rejoice with you in this. God, be with Jeannette's grand-daughter that she will follow you all the days of her life. May she grow in her knowledge of you and what Jesus did for her. Thank you God for keeping her in Your awesome hands. AMEN How old is you Grand-daughter? Diana | ||
| Thomas1 Registered user Username: Thomas1 Post Number: 169 Registered: 4-2002  |
At my church we always stand, clap, and cheer when a new brother or sister comes from the water. So, in honor or your grandaughter CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP YEH! <>< Thomas | ||
| Jeannette Registered user Username: Jeannette Post Number: 93 Registered: 3-2003 |
My grand-daughter is 9 years old. She has wanted to be baptized since December when we went to see "Walk Through Bethlehem". Up until today I had only seen baptisms in the SDA church so this was my first baptism in a christian church. What joy! everyone was so excited clapping and cheering just like in your church Thomas. | ||
| Bob Registered user Username: Bob Post Number: 124 Registered: 7-2000  |
I'm clapping and cheering too! How sad that a Christian baptism should be upsetting for one's grandparents. If that doesn't tell us something is very wrong with Adventism, what does? Bob | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1193 Registered: 3-2004 |
Thomas, In my new church we clap also and family and friends whistle and cheer for their friend. I guess I still have a lot of adventism still in me. So, here I go. CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP. CHEER! CHEER! CHEER! Way to go young lady. God is proud of you. Diana | ||
| Tracey Registered user Username: Tracey Post Number: 253 Registered: 9-2004 |
Nice job, Diana ---- and Don't ever ever say again that you have adventism in you. You have Christ in you and He is renewing your mind and thinking daily. You may be learning now about praising the Lord in this way, but way to go! It's wonderful that you are open and free-spirited. Just like a child. Unto Him who restores to us the years that the cankerworm took. Tracey | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1195 Registered: 3-2004 |
Thanks Tracey, Sometimes I think this senior citizen is too old to change, but God has shown me that I am not. At church I see people raise their hands in joy and praise to God when they sing and pray and I want to do it also. So little by little, my arms are being raised. No one notices but me because of my background in adventism. In reality, I do want to change. I want to be the woman God wants me to be. Thank God He restores to us the years the cankerworn took. Thanks Tracey for reminding me of this. I have to share something else. My younger sister was at my house yesterday. I was telling her about the Easter program at my church. She likes the more traditional services and music and does not want to visit my church because she does not like the music. It is definitely not traditional. Any way I invited her to the Easter program and told her that the music would be more traditional, from what others have told me. Then I told her about signing off with God is awesome and that one of the ladys here noticed it and asked if she could send me a CD with a song about how awesome God is. Well, my sister asked to hear the song and liked it. It is a small step, but it is something she asked. So I thank God for small steps. And our God is awesome. Diana | ||
| Bob Registered user Username: Bob Post Number: 126 Registered: 7-2000 |
Diana, I have always been a very restrained and conservative person, and when I started attending my church seven years ago, I was so self-conscious about showing any emotion during worship. It was so contrary to my SDA conditioning. It took me a couple of years, but now I can raise my hands in worship. I only do it if it comes from my heart, not because the worship leader may suggest it at times. I guess I will always resist conformity! Bob | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1586 Registered: 12-2003  |
Diana, how AWESOME! (I know which song you mean--it's beautiful.) Jeannette, I'm thrilled for your granddaughter and for you! So I'll join in: CLAP,CLAP,CLAP,CLAP--YEA! I cried the first time I saw a Christian baptism--we had just read Dale's two books (Cultic Doctrine and Sabbath in Christ), and we were just popping to talk with someone about what we were learning. So, we called Dale (it was the first time we had ever tried to visit him even though he is Richard's relative) and asked if we could come down the following Saturday. They said Yes, of course, and invited us to stay overnight and go to church with them. Dale was pastoring a Christian church in Sedona, AZ, at the time, and we had no idea what a service there would be like. He told us he was addressing a problem in the congregation regarding some open sin among the members. We looked at each other and exchanged a silent, "Oh, no!" That service was a total shock. Dale addressed the issue of sin, and he stood there and appealed for people to bring their brokenness to Jesus for healing. It was the most loving, impassioned sermon I had ever heard, and it did not exhort anyone to "clean up their acts". He simply pled with them to surrender to Jesus and accept His forgiveness and healing. I sat in the congregation fighting tears. Afterward there was a baptism in a member's home swimming pool. Several teenage boys were baptized; each one gave his testimony (the first time I'd ever heard anyone do that at a baptism), and everyone clapped and cheered when each person came out of the water. Richard and I stood on the edge of the small crowd, and both of us were fighting tears. We had never witnessed anything like it--the joy, the presence of the Holy Spirit, the very real experiences of those teenagers. God really spoke to us that day, and our exit from Adventism was underway. Praise God for your granddaughter and for Jesus, Jeannette! Colleen | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 1683 Registered: 11-2002 |
That is wonderful that the grandchild as committed herself to Jesus. As Colleen said about giving the testemonies-the youth give their testemonies at their Confirmation. It is so moving. I asked the pastor where I go to baptise me. It took a great effort to get him to go through with it because the Lutherans have a doctrine called "one baptism". I hadtold him I was bapitized a SDA at age 17 and now I wanted to be bapitized into the Christian fellowship/faith. He insisted SDA's ae fully Christian and my baptism was valid before God. I made an apointment with him and informed him of EGW, the IJ and numerous other distinctives in the SDA demnination that deviates from basic Christianity. Then he approved and I was bapitized into The Body of Christ. At every bapitism I have been to at a Lutheran church after the bapitism the congreation sings the songm jesus Loves Me. It is so nice. |
