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1 | Joe, baptism required for Lord's Supper? | 1 Cor 11:27 | Hank | 63085 | ||
Searcher, it seems odd indeed that church leaders would permit a new believer access to the Lord's table while at the same time causing him to go through a "probationary" period before allowing him to be baptized. I wonder how they presume to know that the new believer "automatically" understands all about holy communion but must be tutored on water baptism? Leaders of such a church would be hard pressed to justify their actions by scriptural example. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Joe, baptism required for Lord's Supper? | 1 Cor 11:27 | glory777 | 63143 | ||
Hank- Maybe I'm missing something here, but what about an older believer who had been indoctrinated about the Lord's supper but had never had the ooertunity to be baptized? When you live in a very small community in the north where the facilities do not have a baptismal (is that what it is called?) but the river has to suffice - yes, there are a lot of areas like this - mine included- that we have to wait until we can chop the ice off the water before we can partake of the Lord's supper? I am blessed to belong to a church (another small one) that has a man-made pond behind the church. After a few years of being a rededicated believer I found a place that I could be baptized! (Did I mention I have a phobia about leaches - blood suckers we call them, also?) Debbie |
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3 | Joe, baptism required for Lord's Supper? | 1 Cor 11:27 | Hank | 63156 | ||
Hi, Debbie. Unless I'm much mistaken, the issue about waiting to be baptized had to do with considerations other than meteorologic. Well can I understand one's reluctance to submit to immersion in a river or pond in winter, whether in the frozen north or in Arkansas: it can get cold here in January too! But in your north country, and I've been to the upper mid-west in winter, it gets frigid. The weather there reminds me of the first lines of Keat's poem: "St. Agnes Eve -- Ah, bitter chill it was! ... The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; ... The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, ... And silent was the flock in woolly fold." ..... Does that sound like the winter in your part of the world? If it does, I'd be in favor of waiting on outdoor baptism till the spring thaw! --Hank | ||||||
4 | Joe, baptism required for Lord's Supper? | 1 Cor 11:27 | glory777 | 63171 | ||
Definitly not as literary, but up here, spitting into the wind in winter is a form of masochism! Deb |
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