Calvery Baptist Church, on Green Lane in Bristol, Pa.
Sunday School 9:30 am, Main Service 11 am, Sunday evenings 7 pm, and Wednesday Prayer Meetings 7 p,.
Vacation Bible School every summer, and I went to Word of Life Camp, in Schroon Lake, upstate NY every summer until I was 14. (the last year was in 69, and I remember fighting the traffic heading to Woodstock.)
We had many a fabulous traveling preacher who would do one or two week revivals, each night, at our church. They included Rev Lehman Strauss, Jack Van Impe (still on TV each week) and many others whom I cant recall at the moment.
My church was so strict, my dad wouldn’t even allow me to play pool on Sundays. Absolutely no dancing. (it was a sin back then)
No alcohol what so ever. No card playing. Smoking would not send you to hell, but it smelled like you had been there (little church joke there)
Crew cuts only. Long hair was effeminite, and an absolute sin.
I went to see the great Rev. Billy Graham several times, and my family put up missionaries each year. (they slept in my bedroom, which meant I had to move in with my sister)
My church preached fire and brimstone, literally. They have mellowed somewhat, and kids now can have long hair, wear bell bottoms, and play cards.
They can dance also, and I believe the preacher there now (as has Billy Graham) has since backed off the concept of a literal Hell.
I got allowance based on how many Bible verses I could memorize.
I still believe what I was taught as a youngster. (Phil 2: 6??) Train up a child in God’s Word, and when he gets older, he will not depart from it... (paraphrased, and the verse number might be wronga)
Still, I cannot stand people who think THEY are the absolute truth. My church changed so much over the years, as have ALL churches.
People who get smarmy on Mormons should be ashamed. America was founded on the greatest democratic principal of God’s Universe — FREEDOM OF WORSHIP.
I will never believe anything taught by the Mormon church. Still, I respect and admire them as good conservatives, good Americans.
These were the questions I asked, but you seem to have described a church that you used to go to. Which type of Baptist church do you attend now?
Which fundamentalist baptist church do you belong to?
Since you are a practicing Baptist, how did you come to have such little influence in your home that your wife and your children are Catholics?
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6