BETHEL CHURCH

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Pearl

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Oh that looks like a great place to find fellowship. I like that it is international in flavour and that it is small. It means that it is easier to get to know members. I love that it has a diverse range of age groups. What's the preaching like? :)
yes it was very friendly and people kept say 'Oh we've heard about you.' Seems they had been praying for me at the Wednesday bible study. It was lovely.
 

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I'm just going to check out one of the sermons...listening to Gordon hall on the Jonah sermons. I like how he calls a spade a spade. You are definitely very blessed to find a great group of believers in Christ. Bless you and yours. Do you have a ride? :)

PS: Got a bit of a shock with the accent!:eek:
 
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I'm just going to check out one of the sermons...listening to Gordon hall on the Jonah sermons. I like how he calls a spade a spade. You are definitely very blessed to find a great group of believers in Christ. Bless you and yours. Do you have a ride? :)

PS: Got a bit of a shock with the accent!:eek:
Gordon Hall seems like a really nice man. He arranged for his wife to pick me up and another couple brought me home. They are starting Baptism classes as there are about five or six new people waiting to be Baptised. I sort of glad really that they go through classes to make sure they know what they are doing and why they are doing it.
 
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Gordon Hall seems like a really nice man. He arranged for his wife to pick me up and another couple brought me home. They are starting Baptism classes as there are about five or six new people waiting to be Baptised. I sort of glad really that they go through classes to make sure they know what they are doing and why they are doing it.
I had to go through similar baptism classes before I was baptized back in the day....:) Glad you got a ride and back
 
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I had to go through similar baptism classes before I was baptized back in the day....:) Glad you got a ride and back
@Angelina Good for the person who wants to be baptized to have a proper knowledge beforehand from Scripture of what s/he is doing, and how the doctrine fits the profession of faith, right?
 

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@Angelina Good for the person who wants to be baptized to have a proper knowledge beforehand from Scripture of what s/he is doing, and how the doctrine fits the profession of faith, right?
We did classes as well.
 
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The only one I know of is the HQ in Redding where Bill Johnson is. I am sorry I have nothing negative to report. Bill Johnson visited a church near us and the son of a friend went to a meeting with a friend of his who had only one hand. When he came home he had two hands.
 

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The only one I know of is the HQ in Redding where Bill Johnson is. I am sorry I have nothing negative to report. Bill Johnson visited a church near us and the son of a friend went to a meeting with a friend of his who had only one hand. When he came home he had two hands.
Wow! A miracle for sure. I have heard stories like that from people I know.

The Bethel church I went to was quite traditional, no-fuss church with friendly people.
 

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You could always ask if they're linked to the Bethel group that has the bad reputation.

That's the thing about churches with the same name, or nearly identical if one has a bad reputation .:oops:
 

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You could always ask if they're linked to the Bethel group that has the bad reputation.

That's the thing about churches with the same name, or nearly identical if one has a bad reputation .:oops:
I think if they were linked to the US Bethel church it would say so on their website.
 

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I think if they were linked to the US Bethel church it would say so on their website.
Possibly.
Or,given the scandal if they are affiliated with the other Bethel church they could have deleted it.

Would you want to be affiliated with a church that's linked to the scandalous Bethel?

Asking them settles the question doesn't it?
 

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Possibly.
Or,given the scandal if they are affiliated with the other Bethel church they could have deleted it.

Would you want to be affiliated with a church that's linked to the scandalous Bethel?

Asking them settles the question doesn't it?
I only went once and I liked it. There were no egos on show and the worship was simply a guitar and oldish songs I knew. And the people were lovely.