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ByzantineTexas ^ | 06-17-2016 | ByzantineTexas

[Heart-Rest]

"Baptists! Of course!"

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Here's a great old Gospel Song being sung by various Baptists (and other people) which could maybe be applied to the original photo in this thread.

"Wade In The Water" - St. James Missionary Baptist Church of Canton
(youtube song video clip)

"Wade In The Water" - Blind Boys of Alabama
(youtube song video clip)

"Wade In The Water" - The Staple Singers
(youtube song video clip)

Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water.

[right way right]

Baptist is good people. I don't really have a problem with this pool communion. There was another poster who gave the scripture about the eunuch and Phillip. That is an example of the right heart condition to receive communion or be baptized.

I remember when I asked my pastor for comumunion.
He said that it sounded like I had already had heart circumsism and that I could wait a week.
Yeah, they had to have a special section in the service.
It took me a little bit of time and bible study to understand what he meant by circumcism. I thin k being in a pool for communion would not be for me unless I had the right heart condition at the moment.

[right way right]

I meant when I asked my pastor for to be baptized, not communion.

[kanawa]

They’re not cutting off heads, let ‘em do what they want.

[Heart-Rest]

Well, at least your pastor didn't make you go have it done in the Jordan River!      :-)

[trebb]

This is just so wrong. (NRx)

Exactly what makes it wrong and "liturgical abuse"????

[piusv]

So no, this was not a Catholic thing. I really should have had the Episcopalians at the top of my suspect list.

The Novus Ordo and the Episcopalian services aren't all that far off from each other, so I completely get the confusion.

[JimRed]

God looks upon the heart, not the form of worship.

[cloudmountain]

I remember seeing photos where the hood of the jeep was the altar, and the chaplain was wearing a stole over his olive drab fatigues.

Some images, no matter how brief the glimpse, simply cannot be forgotten. We remember those photos, don't we?

[hiho hiho]

Martin Luther’s A Mighty Fortress was adapted from a beer song.

This is partially correct. A Mighty Fortress is a “bar tune.” That is a musical form and has nothing to do with beer, taverns, drinking establishments, etc. Luther was certainly an advocate of beer, but A Mighty Fortress was not a drinking song.

Now that you know this, please don’t bear false witness against Luther in the future.

References —
http://www.smithcreekmusic.com/Hymnology/Lutheran.Hymnody/Drinking.song.FAQ.html

http://faithreasons.net/uploads/Luther%20and%20Bar%20Song.pdf

http://www.av1611.org/question/cqluther.html

https://cliftonr.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/martin-luther-and-%E2%80%9Ctavern-music%E2%80%9D/

http://www.practicapoetica.com/articles/debunking-the-drinking-song-myth-a-mighty-fortress/

[Jonty30]

I didn’t say it was a beer song. I said it was adapted from a beer song.

There is no false witness there.

[hiho hiho]

PLEASE READ THE LINKS!!

It was NOT adapted from a “beer song.”

[Campion]

According to commenters at Fr. Z’s blog: Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio summer youth camp, London, Ohio.

[FourtySeven]

Thanks for the update, I was concerned. A lot less to be concerned about IMO, since the Blessed Sacrament wasn’t part of that ceremony. Just a symbol.