Posted on 03/30/2024 5:46:01 PM PDT by Libloather
New York City Mayor Eric Adams was baptized at notorious Rikers Island jail on Good Friday.
Adams was baptized by civil rights campaigner Rev. Al Sharpton, alongside a group of male prisoners.
The ceremony came as part of a visit to the jail, which has seen reports of violent crime and inmate deaths, where Adams met with detainees over Easter weekend.
Adams was seen joining Sharpton in prayer, being baptized and having his feet washed by the reverend.
'Having been arrested and then elected mayor, I reminded these young men that where you are is not who you are,' Adams said in a statement following the ritual.
Adding: 'For the first time in their lives, their mayor didn't look down at them. I sat side by side with them to be cleansed and recommit ourselves to getting on the right path.'
Adams and the civil rights leader have a long association, often hosting events together at City Hall.
The mayor also often calls into Sharpton's radio show to make a contribution.
Adams told New York City radio show 'The Breakfast Club,' Adams said he had also visited the jail earlier in the week and met with 'a group of 12 young brothers who recommitted themselves to Christ.'
'I've been on Rikers Island more than any mayor in the history of the city talking with inmates and correction officers to turn around what's happening on Rikers Island,' Adams said.
The city-run jail complex is currently the subject of an ongoing legal battle that could result in a federal takeover of the facility.
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Sharpie Sharpton is NOT a “real” REV.; he never went to college, never took orders, was never ordained, and “REV” was a childhood nickname, because he used to act up during church services.
Was he baptized in the name of Jesus?
Was he baptized to Lucifer?
For his next stunt, Notsosharpton will wash the feet and kiss the rumps of incarcerated MS-13 gang members.
He probably answered an ad in the back of Rolling Stone to get his certificate.
I’d like to see them both experience “tactical baptism”.
Civil rights campaigner???
What a bunch of phonies!
Civil rights organizer, my Shiney White a$$!
Racist rabble rouser and Jew hater!
Heretics.
Or like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer. 😀
The bible makes nor has any of those requirements to be a teacher of his word.
“This is making a mockery of Baptism”
Kinda what I’m thinking.....I suspect most people would be baptized on Easter Sunday not the day Christ was crucified.
I attended Good Friday services at my church and it’s always a solemn occasion of mourning.....not a time to be baptized.
Greasy headed Al is a DeFacto mockery of Christianity.
He is a pretend Reverend, a fake shaman, a Black American Charlatan
A study of Acts of the Apostles 2:41 reveals the Bible records 3,000 people were baptized that day.
“So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.” Acts 2:41 ESV
“Bear in mind that a core group of 120 believers baptized three thousand converts. Neither the baptism nor the training needs to be a complex production.”
https://www.bibleref.com/Acts/2/Acts-2-41.html
In 5 years with my church’s prison ministry I personally or assisted in baptizing several men, the ministry itself is responsible for baptizing somewhere north of 150 state prison inmates.
Almost all by volunteers with no official credentials for doing so other than a love for Jesus Christ.
Happy Easter HE HAS RISEN!
> Almost all by volunteers with no official credentials for doing so other than a love for Jesus Christ. <
Don’t get me wrong. As you noted, you don’t credentials of any sort to baptize someone, or to lead people to Jesus.
My point (perhaps poorly stated) is that most people think Al Sharpton is a reverend in the traditional sense. He is not. He was just given the title when he was nine years old.
Yeah I get that.
He had every right to do what he did......the motivation behind it however, is something else all together......baptizing on the day Christ was crucified?......I’m sorry, but it smacks of mockery to me.
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