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Happy Spiritual B-Day!

Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by Benjamin, Jun 3, 2019.

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  1. Benjamin

    Benjamin Well-Known Member
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    Upon hearing this claim of a mother to her child I took pause to think about whether this common phrase fit the act of Baptism.

    Offhand, personally I can think of at least 5, I’ll call them “jumps” in spiritual awareness or growth and at least 3 were before being baptized.

    So to think of my day of baptism as my Spiritual B-Day doesn’t really add up if I already had the Spirit and was realizing growth.

    That said, I was baptized twice and the first one, water poured at a Methodist church, definitely felt like a spiritual hit, whereas the second, basically to appease my friend and Baptist Pastor to be dunked, although an honor and belief of joining a Christian brotherhood it felt more like going through the motion than a major spiritual growth step.

    Or is baptism merely just traditionally known or referred to as your spiritual birthday?

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    My spiritual birthday is March 13, 1971. That was the day that the Holy Spirit broke down my last resistance to believing in Jesus as savior. I ended up going forward at an invitation an evangelist gave at a service I was at on a Saturday night. I confessed my sins to God, repented, and believed in my heart that Jesus was risen from the dead and had paid the price for my sins. I was born again.

    I was baptized about 5 months later.
     
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