Posted on 09/17/2023 8:59:33 AM PDT by CFW
More than 200 students at an Alabama college were baptized in one night this week after a campus worship program that was reportedly attended by hundreds.
The baptisms took place Tuesday night in a lake at Auburn's Red Barn venue, which is located about half a mile from Auburn University's Neville Arena, the site of a "Unite Auburn" worship event that drew a massive crowd.
The "Unite Auburn" event featured performances by Christian worship band Passion and saw speakers such as Jennie Allen, a Christian author, and Rev. Jonathan Pokluda, lead pastor of Harris Creek Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.
Following the event, one individual reportedly wanted to be baptized, but a tub was not available for use. Seeking a solution, students began gathering at the lake.
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"It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever gotten to witness, because there was such a genuine joy and sense of peace in the air. I would look back toward campus and constantly see mobs of flashlights from more students that were running to come to join the crowd," Kenzie Gay, a senior at Auburn University who witnessed the spiritual event firsthand, told Fox.
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"What was so great about these baptisms is that it wasn’t a planned religious event, it was just a whole bunch of college students moved by their desire to follow Jesus," Auburn student Mateo Arenas told Fox.
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We are an Auburn family.
While there have been moments of wokeness from Auburn, the alumni are notably “nope, not gonna happen at Auburn” and pummels the offenders on official Auburn social media, AND the university recognizes the link between social sentiment and donations.
War Eagel!
And the woke quake, God forbid that people turn to religion to find meaning in their life.
Good on you guys, lots of love from T Town, God bless Auburn, tons of great folks.
Eagel (sic) should be Eagle.
We regret the error.
Makes you weep for joy
LOL!!! Liberals everywhere screaming for indictments no doubt
Glad to see some good news for a change- May God truly bless them mightily
“We are an Auburn family.”
Auburn has a good reputation. Definitely not as bad as my Georgia Bulldawgs. One of our football players seems to be arrested weekly for speeding, DUI, or some other type driving infraction.
Great news!
Let’s hope this blessed event catches on and spreads to other institutions....
WAR EAGLE !
I’m sure the federales are investigating as we speak.
LOL probably- solitary confinement for 22 years will be the verdict
Great story and video for a Sunday!! Especially at a University!
Many of the great revivals began, first, among the most fallen (I'm not saying that university students are the most fallen). If I remember right, the "Jesus Movement" of the late 1960's - early 1970's began in the hippie scene.
War Eagle, y’all. Beautiful.
Nicely done.
Indeed: posted today: Pastor Oden Fong [son of Hollywood actor Benson Fong] gives His Testimony [finding the Ultimate High in 1970 - not sensationalism, but astounding:grace - read or listen]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYSB9z746o ^ | 15 years ago | Oden Fong
It was during the time I was studying the usage of psychedelic drugs to find myself and to find some sort of a relationship with a type of God that I started to run into people who were very religious. I would study with people who were Tibetan Buddhists. I would study and help establish the Hari Krishna temple in Laguna Beach and also worshiped with them and studied the Bhagavad Gita with the president of that particular house, a self-realization fellowship Paramahansa Yogananda spiel. These are all things that go way over most of your heads because you're too young to remember any of these things or even hear about them. But there was one psychologist, I mean, he was a psychiatrist, by the name of Dr. Timothy Leary....
So happy for my Alma mater.
Praise the Lord and WAR EAGLE!
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