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I have been watching videos by Dr. Gavin Ortland for the past several months. Dr. Ortland is a Reformed Baptist Pastor who is very well versed in Church History, the Early Church Fathers, and Historic Protestant Christianity. Dr. Ortland contends that the church, particularly the post-nicean...

Homeless people typically fall into one of two categories: The temporary homeless- which are people who got behind on rent and were evicted or maybe even lost a house due to non-payment. These folks don't typically stay homeless for long. They take advantage of government/church/social...

I'm watching season three of the Chosen. I'm a little on the fence about the series because they take so many "artistic licenses" in creating a backstory for the apostles and other characters in the Gospels and invent some characters not mentioned in the New Testament. However, There have...

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We are keeping our Christmas tree up until Jan 6th. We have removed our advent wreath from the dining room table and removed the few outside decorations we had up. I actually wish our society would return to the "12 Days of Christmas" celebration. I think putting the tree up on Christmas...

My men's bible study is about to do the second half of Hebrews starting the last Sunday in January. We did went through the first half back in the Fall. Our church preaching ministry does expositional preaching through books of the Bible. We started the book of Daniel back in the fall and...

No, it is my intent to show that up until 40 years or so ago very few people understood that this verse is a textual variant. People reading the KJV when credo-baptism took off would certainly have understood this verse to be part of scripture. And it would have contributed to the belief...

I understand their reasoning, which is basically the same as yours. It is that a young child can't have a firm grasp of "faith" and therefore baptism should wait until they are old enough to have a better understanding of what faith is and means. However, I would tell them that I disagree with...

We will have to agree to disagree. I came to faith as a young child and while I didn't have a full intellectual understanding, I did understand that I was a sinner and Jesus Came to forgive me and the way to access that forgiveness was to believe and trust in Him. That faith has grown as my...

One final note on all this. Up until a few years ago I had never heard that Baptist churches restricted Baptism until adulthood or a certain age. I had to google it to find out that yes, there are baptist churches that will only baptize adults or children over 12 years old. From my personal...

It depends on which translation of the Bible you read. American Evangelicalism's roots are in the KJV, which up until 30 years or so ago was the dominate Bible in Baptist churches. If you read Acts 8:36-38 in the KJV it says: 36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water...

Faith isn't a legally binding agreement. It is a gift of God and the work of the Holy Spirit. So yes, children as young as 5 or 6 can have faith. It is a childlike faith that may not be fully formed, but it is faith nonetheless. Baptism is a marker in the faith journey that takes place at...

Baptist don't insist on adulthood. They insist on a personal faith that comes from hearing the gospel. Children as young as four or five years old are capable of hearing the gospel and having an elementary understanding of their need for forgiveness, the need to trust in Christ, and the need...

I was a member of the largest non-Catholic denomination in the United States, the Southern Baptist, for most of my life. I never heard age and baptism uttered in the same sentence. My objection to the term "age restriction" is it makes it seem like age is the deciding factor for a baptismal...

I'm interested in that myself. I would imagine the traditional service is mostly older folks and the contemporary service mostly younger folks. The church I attend has two services every Sunday morning. They are both the same service with the same music and the same message. Even this...

I don't really want to have a dog in this fight but just a point of clarification. I've heard some people say that baptist make people wait until they are an adult or some arbitrary age like 14 before they can be baptized. I've been in dozens of baptist churches in my life and witnessed...

Honestly, even though I was technically in a "dispensationalist" church growing up and into my adult years, it was never really taught as a class and only vaguely from the pulpit. All I really remember is the belief that there are different "ages" in history and we are living in the "church...

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The Methodist Churches in my area usually have two services. One is a "traditional" service which is much more liturgical with organ music, candles, the pastor wearing robes and so forth. The other is a contemporary service which is more informal and had a worship band and "Praise Team". The...

Has anyone been keeping up with the churches leaving the United Methodist Conference because of the UMC's tilt toward liberal practice and theology? There was an article in our local paper about a a large Methodist Church in my area has voted to leave the UMC for a new Methodist Conference...