We applaud CCU alum and former student of SWNID Victor Couzens who, as pastor of Inspirational Baptist Church, is leading that congregation in the purchase of the derelict Surf Cincinnati water park on the northern portion of the I-275 beltway.
The Enquirer reports that the church's plan is to build a worship facility on the property but also to open a major pool to the public. They're also planning an indoor sports facility. Eventually they envision a hotel/conference center and a social service center.
SWNID hates vacant properties. SWNID loves churches--and Victor Couzens. So we like this very much.
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It sounds like a great, although somewhat unusual, idea (how many churches operate pools?). Perhaps they could have some sort of baptismal slide?
jake, just as long as the slide ends in a full immersion experience in the deep end of the pool with the baptized individual's head pointed in the direction of the flow of the living water / slide... i think we could make this happen!
Just imagine if all of the lifeguards were ordained ministers! At the diving pool they could mutter before each person jumps... "I now baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit." Plenty of salvation and no one would even have to know!
This could revolutionize the country and could even lead to a new seminary instruction in Nautatorium Theology.
No showers in the locker rooms, I hope. Wouldn't want to encourage sprinkling. (Better to smell than flirt with ... well, you get the idea.)
The idea I got is tha jb in ca is a prejudiced person. Baptism is baptism no matter how(or when) it is done.
I believe that this would be the authoritative instruction on the matter.
http://www.dabar.org/Acts/baptismarticle.html
Kevink,
I'm not a very good poet, no doubt, but prejudiced? What, exactly, was I pre-juging?
I was merely being playful with the idea--widely supported by the Baptists building the pool--that sprinkling might not be the appropriate mode of baptism.
Perhaps a shower is in order--a cold one, that is. Chill out.
Kevink, I'd be careful about saying what you did, without at least acknowledging the facts that (a) the word "baptism" is derived from a Greek work in the New Testament meaning "immersion"; (b) all the instances of baptism in the New Testament assume immersion as the mode, and some need immersion as the mode to make sense; (c) the first mention in Christian literature of any mode other than immersion is seen as an emergency accommodation to the absence of water in arid places.
Also, is it not rash to accuse someone of prejudice on the basis of one sarcastic remark about a disputed point of theology? You seem to be flirting with SWNID's rule that comments not be personal.
Of course, maybe you were being sarcastic?
What is it with you people?
"You people" is such a fine way to refer to a group that the speaker wants to define and disparage. So this reader asks the courageous "anonymous" the following questions:
1. Who exactly are you defining as "you people"?
2. What is it that you are implying is somehow defective about this group?
Otherwise, none of "us people" will be able to answer your incisive question.
The question was more rhetorical than anything, "Jim," but thanks anyway.
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