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January 03 BaptismBaptism - Mr. Dan Wells
On Sunday, December 31, the First Baptist Church of Oxford accepted the spoken testimony of one our deacons, Daniel J. Wells, and thus followed through with a biblical baptism, a vote for full membership and a ‘confirmation’ vote of accepting him as a chosen servant-deacon. Following many months of self-examination, intense Bible study, counsel with his pastors and deacons and prayer, Dan came to the Holy Spirit’s conviction that he must be biblically baptized. His testimony is that as a boy he trusted the Lord as his personal Savior. The fact that his Baptist mother is married to his Church of Christ father complicated his baptism by immersion. Not only did his Church of Christ pastor initially refuse to baptize him (because Dan claims he did not tell the pastor he wanted to be baptized for the remission of sins but to simply be obedient to the Lord now that he was already saved) but when this pastor did baptize him, he did so under duress, with an attitude that this ‘boy’ does not understand salvation/baptism and then blatantly used the words “for the remission of sins” when he put Dan under the water. Thus the testimony of Dan’s baptism was skewed! Not that the mode was incorrect or that Dan did not understand but that what was preached and understood by all present that day was that Dan was baptized for the remission of sins! With great peace and upon the authority of God’s Word, Daniel J. Wells was biblically baptized by immersion in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit by the First Baptist Church of Oxford, Michigan on Sunday, January 30, 2007. Should you have any questions or concerns in regards to this matter, please don’t hesitate to contact Dan at well4him@aol.com or fbcofoxford@yahoo.com. |
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