Only 5% voted for THIS!

I took a poll asking my followers on Instagram what they think is happening in the clip that I'm about to show you.

The options were self -baptisms, communal birthing pool, anointed healing bath water, or the

AC went out so they had an impromptu pool party.

And they just keep an indoor pool filled in their sanctuary just in case.

After over 4 ,000 votes, the results are in.

Only 5 of you thought this was a communal birthing pool, and honestly, I'm a bit disappointed because you

probably didn't consider a spiritual birthing.

You ever think of that?

No?

You're too carnal.

If you don't think that spiritual birthing is a thing, you are sorely mistaken, and if you think that

spiritual birthing is only for women, you're definitely a narrow -minded bigot.

If TD Jakes can do it, anyone can.

Coming in third place at 17%, you chose the anointed healing bath water, the idea

being that people go into the water to receive healing, which I guess could be physical or

spiritual,.

Perhaps.

In second place, at 31%, you guys guessed the least ridiculous, an impromptu pool party.

Do you think that's the right one?

We'll find out in a minute, but first place, getting 47 % of the votes, we have self -baptisms.

No need for the administration of the sacrament by elders of the church, no need perhaps even for credible

professions of faith, DIY baptisms.

Just prove it!

So what's actually supposed to be going on here?

This is Christ Fellowship Church in Dawsonville, Georgia, pastored by Todd and Karen Smith.

Well, they are the senior pastors, and there's also an executive pastor, and then man and

wife children's pastors, and then man and wife youth pastors, and man and wife

online campus pastors, just like Paul had set up in Ephesus in Acts 20.

They're a non -denominational church.

And according to them, a revival has been going on for over 297 straight weeks.

While they are fairly orthodox in their statement of faith, they do profess to believe in modern -day

apostles and prophets.

For example, here is a recent ad for a visiting prophet and best -selling author, a globally

recognized prophet.

I guess that means he's the real deal, just like the prophets of old, who everybody loved.

This is Jeremiah Johnson.

And I had had a series of dreams at the end of 2020.

The thing that I saw was Donald Trump being elected president.

It wasn't about whether I was right or wrong.

We went through this season of me offering a letter of apology to the body of Christ for

what I believe was amiss.

Now, they also believe that physical healing in this life was purchased in the atonement.

This is a common belief in charismatic groups.

It's an over -realized eschatology that posits that it is always God's will to heal you

physically.

Now, how this particular church would explain that and how they would explain why people don't get healed, I don't know.

You gotta ask them.

But this is our segue to the pool.

Now, on the original video, there is no explanation of what's going on.

It just says, the water broke.

This is the service in which this pool party took place.

We had a prophetic word, a tongue, an interpretation.

This morning, we had multiple interruptions of the spirit in a sweet and beautiful way

that the water is about to break.

Now, what seems to be happening with this pool is that it is an act of faith to go into the water

for spiritual and physical healing.

This has been done before.

It seems to be something that is regularly done in the church.

A man preached from Genesis 26 about the wells that the Philistines stopped up and how God blessed

Isaac and we are like Isaac.

And over time, others with the Philistine spirit have come and stopped up your wells and we

need to keep digging.

And if we're not hearing from God, it's probably because we stopped digging.

He said it's very important to understand foundational truths like salvation in Christ alone.

Foundational truths such as salvation through Jesus Christ only.

But if we keep on digging deeper, that's where we'll find the deep things like praying and unintelligible speech.

But you got to keep on digging, amen?

But when I kept on and when you get down here to

Rehoboth, things just began to open up.

When it was once up there praying, you get down to Rehoboth and it's Unintelligible speech.

Maybe there's a connection between the water breaking and baby talk.

He concluded by getting into the pool which is meant to represent the well of salvation and all the benefits

accompanied with salvation including physical healings with the invitation to claim these things

from the well of salvation that is in you as a believer.

Now the senior pastor didn't know what to do and he said as much, you know, because the Holy Spirit's leading the

service obviously.

So the band got up, started singing We Come Alive in the River and the senior pastor then started speaking in tongues

because what else are you going to do when you don't know what to do?

And then he came up with this.

And so that's what they did and here's another angle of the clip that I noped.

They then proceed to sing We Come Alive in the River for the next half hour while people had

experiences in the pool and others got baptized in the pool.

But it doesn't look like any self baptisms took place, you Pharisees.

The service continued for another hour and a half with singing and baptisms which appeared to be primarily

spontaneous and the pastor baptizing not in the pool but in over what I think is their baptismal

did seem to be giving an explanation of what baptism means before putting them under the water.

But there was no audio so I couldn't hear.

Now I take issue with spontaneous baptisms and I think the case of the Ethiopian eunuch in Akshate is descriptive and not

prescriptive but that's another video.

Anyways, the correct answer is closest to the third option, anointed healing bath water which only

17 of you voted for.

Do you even discernment, bro?

Nope.

Nuh -uh.