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I read the Sword and Trumpet debate, but it's been months. Could you please share the quotes where MM said that someone not rightly baptized is lost and still in their sins? Because I don't recall him saying and that feels like something I would remember. Words mean things. If one believes in bapti...

I'm not familiar enough with CoC to say for sure. But if CoC is saying that everyone is damned who doesn't receive baptism in a specific mode, then FOTW does not teach that. But clearly they DO believe in baptismal regeneration, which means that those who have not been baptized as believers are not...

Absolutely not. Source: I was baptized by my Beachy bishop at the age of 19. The baptism, as the Beachy mode is, was by pouring. I am a member in good standing at FOTW, and have been for about six months. In that time, there hasn't been even the slightest hint that my baptism was invalid or that I ...

Ken wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:13 am The population of Baltimore has also fallen nearly by half since 1960 so that has to have some effect as well.

Some of the areas included here are in Baltimore and Anne Arundel County. That is likely part of it, but not the major factor.

“Plain people, Amish and Mennonites are so close to the truth, yet almost none of them are saved [referring to baptism by pouring]. If we are able to get more church plants going, perhaps we could save a few of them.” FotW’s founders see themselves as delivering salvation (notable is that they term...

I would have identified it as a fusion movement between the Church of Christ and Anabaptism, that has the "look and feel" of an Anabaptist church but has the controversial doctrine of the Church of Christ, also known as the Stone-Campbell movement. It would be much the same as Charity was ...

For those who do not know, Baltimore has been a hotbed of the molestation scandal. They declared chapter 11 bankruptcy to halt lawsuits that could have forced them to sell everything, down to the last candlestick. They expected a boom of Hispanic attendance, but apparently that has not happened, but...

https://www.archbalt.org/seek-the-city-proposal/ Their average attendance is about 2500 weekly. There is a mega church that has that large of attendance, and at least two that are over a thousand. While some here have pushed back on the notion I have advanced here that the RCC in my fair town is on ...

barnhart wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:25 pm If I were a history teacher, I would have my students listen to this to get them thinking about ideas, consequences and dehumanization.

That may be a very good idea. The true horror of what is being communicated does not come through in the text as well as it does here,

I believe in a more NT way :) . There is no need for baptismal classes or formal church membership. Both are add-ons to the NT pattern. There is a church nearby where I live that immerses the same day or asap as possible after repentance. Show me anywhere in the NT where there was any testing perio...