Missionary Baptist Church

[kjlistrom]

Does anyone have any experiance with the Missionary Baptist Church?
I went to the one here in Redmond OR. and was turned off when they said that they were the only Body of Christ in Redmond.

[BlessedinHim]

I attend a missionary Baptist church, but apparently it is not connected with the one you attended. Sounds like they are baptist in name only!

[kjlistrom]

It is a small Church group, and I know that they love the Lord but I just can't hepl but feel that a statment like that is prideful.

[kjlistrom]

I attend a missionary Baptist church, but apparently it is not connected with the one you attended. Sounds like they are baptist in name only!I don't know but does your MBC say also that only the MBC can baptize and that if you were baptized by say a Calvery Chaple it didn't count?

[twisty58]

I attend a missionary Baptist church, but apparently it is not connected with the one you attended. Sounds like they are baptist in name only!

ROFL.... BINOs!!!

[BlessedinHim]

I don't know but does your MBC say also that only the MBC can baptize and that if you were baptized by say a Calvery Chaple it didn't count?

My personal experience, I was baptized in the Nazarene church, attended there for about 8 years, then I began attending a baptist church. They did have me to be re-baptized, although I really felt that my first baptism was real and fine. the main difference tho was between OSAS and OSNAS. I have found that no church has it all together nor does any one church have their doctrine 100% lined up with scripture. Nobody does. If the indiscretion is not a salvation issue, I dont worry about it, but if it is a salvation issue, and I am led by the HS to believe that it is incorrect, I would probably not attend there long. Ive been in the baptist church for almost 7 years. Before that I had attended Pentecostal. I am grateful for the teaching of the Holy Spirit! Personally, I do not feel that I belong to any label over the door of any church, but to the whole body of believers which is the real church. I am in the bible belt, and every church has its own personality and ways . . . . There is another baptist group I would not associate with, and that would be the phelps brand of baptist . . . bad news there.

well, to answer your question about the "manual" I havent seen one. so, I dont know what it says! I have never heard them say or preach or act like we who attend this church gathering are the only true believers.

[Lynn]

Unfortunately, there are some churches around that go under the label 'Baptist' that are actually more like a cult than a true Baptist church. Several years ago, we attended, but never joined, a small 'Baptist' church that had problems with people being baptized in another church that wasn't one of their 'sister' churches. It was called 'alien' baptism, if you were baptized in another church, even if it was by immersion in a Baptist church. They also believed that they were the true Bride of Christ and would be present for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. The rest of us, who were outside their particular brand of 'Baptist' were not a part of the actual Bride and were just to be observers (if I remember correctly) at the Marriage Supper. :faint

They also had a doctrine that said everyone should attend a 'local' fellowship; strangely, only the pastor's family and one other member were actually local.
Everyone else commuted to the church from another community.
We could never have joined a church with odd beliefs such as these.

[kjlistrom]

I agree with you that if it is not a salvation issue that it does not matter.
They have said many times that there are saved people out there but they aren't the true body of Christ because they aren't menbers of a New Testament Church and that The Redmond Baptist Church was the ony New Testament Church in Redmond.

I can't help but feel that they have separated themselfs from the Body of Christ.

I went there about 6 mons. and they did re-baptize me, I didn't have a problem with that cause I to felt that the first time I was Baptized was good, I didn't have any conviction after the first time, in fact I felt full, so to speak.
I didn't have a problem going before the RMBC and doing it again just to show them I was obedeiant to the Church, but latter when they said that the first time didn't count because it was not by an ordained Preacher from a New Testament Church is when I started to look into their beliefs and left the Church.

[kjlistrom]

Unfortunately, there are some churches around that go under the label 'Baptist' that are actually more like a cult than a true Baptist church. Several years ago, we attended, but never joined, a small 'Baptist' church that had problems with people being baptized in another church that wasn't one of their 'sister' churches. It was called 'alien' baptism, if you were baptized in another church, even if it was by immersion in a Baptist church. They also believed that they were the true Bride of Christ and would be present for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. The rest of us, who were outside their particular brand of 'Baptist' were not a part of the actual Bride and were just to be observers (if I remember correctly) at the Marriage Supper. :faint

They also had a doctrine that said everyone should attend a 'local' fellowship; strangely, only the pastor's family and one other member were actually local.
Everyone else commuted to the church from another community.
We could never have joined a church with odd beliefs such as these.
They didn't call it alien but yeah, thats just about word for word.

[BlessedinHim]

I havent read in the scriputures that you have to have an ordained minister to baptize you. I feel that if I wanted to and the rest of my immediate family agreed, I would and could baptize my own children and it is just as good a baptism as mine was.