Sounds really odd...A Baptist minister can't conduct a baptism without a body of water...It would be unbiblical...
A Baptist minister would have no trouble explaining the Lord's supper which btw has nothing to do with water baptism...
To me, it sounds more like this man actually knows God and has a personal relationship with Him...He's comfortable carrying on a conversation with God instead of just repeating repetitious, meaningless prayers put out world wide by a religion...
>> Sounds really odd...A Baptist minister can’t conduct a baptism without a body of water...It would be unbiblical... <<
Yes, exactly. But the prison had no place fitting to baptize the man. So, filled with the Holy Spirit, the Baptist minister began to defend the validity of this man’s salvation. And because it was the Holy Spirit, he did so not by preaching the heresies of the Baptists, but, to my amazement, preaching the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
And you are right; according to the Baptist Church, the Lord’s Supper has nothing to do with water baptism. But in the Catholic Church, it is the means by which a penitent (one who has received the remission of sins) signifies his belonging to the Church, by willingly sacrificing his own intentions for those of Christ; it is the fulfillment of baptism, the third Rite of Initiation.
Incidentally, I don’t hold that the man was saved through the Grace of the Catholic Church, since the communion was, in fact, invalid, since the minister was not an ordained priest. But I do believe he received the sacrament of desire, which is also salvific, of those who are obstructed from the Catholic Church, making all the more prophetic sounding the minister’s words that “those who are here cannot join the Church which Christ has established by means which create the outward signs we are used to seeing, but just because we can’t see the signs of Christ’s work, doesn’t mean they aren’t there.” (I’m paraphrasing from memory, which is probably influenced by my own Catholic vocabulary.)