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Not yet in a Baptist church, but heard that all of time while in Pentecostal churches, as in "
he is anointed to preach, to heal, to witness."

 

I believe it is a biblical practice -- if you're talking about anointing the sick with oil (James 5:14-15) -- and some Baptists have and still do practice it. I have never took the lead in one myself, but have been present once as an observer.

Morgan Edwards of the Philadelphia Baptist Association was a strong proponent of it, and wrote about it in his Customs of Primitive Churches (see link). He recorded at least one instance of anointing among Regular Baptists, as did J. Davis in History of the Welsh Baptists. In another place (which source I don't have at hand at the moment) Morgan Edwards lamented that the same kind of reasoning used to deny anointing the sick with oil would lead Baptists to discontinue every positive rite!

 

If you mean that kind of anointing, yes, when requested by the sick person, Elders place oil on them and lay hands on them and pray.

 

Being an Ordained Independent Baptist preacher I do not see it much, however I am also a Volunteer Chaplain at a State Veterans Home, where the Staff Protestant Chaplain is SBC..........., so yes I have applied oil- but only when the person or family has requested.

Yes it is Biblical- James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

Mostly I find Independents shy away from anything under the verb-age "anoint or anointing." SBC has no problem or at least the few I have been around. Independents must think they (we) are going to get Pentecostal cooties or something?

Same thing with "water baptism." After a person receives the gospel and is born again you can sometimes count the months before they are dunked in a IBC. Not with what I have seen with an SBC Church........a soul gets saved and the following week they are getting wet as a public testimony to their salvation.

 

Yes, as baptists tend to follow what James said on this issue, but Charismatics usually associate that term with another meaning altogether!

 

I've never seen one and I probably never will.

As for the anointing that Pentecostals and Charismatics teach, I believe they get it from here:

" And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
2 he said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5 When they heard [this], they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. 7 And all the men were about twelve." ( Acts 19:1-7 )


The way i understand it is this:

So, instead of seeing that there were some who had believed on Christ and having not been baptized in the name of Jesus, but with John's baptism of repentance ( in other words, they had heard and believed the Gospel, but had not been properly baptized yet ), they assume from the passage that their are two "baptisms" that are separate acts...one by men, and one by God via the Holy Ghost...which their are, but the latter one precedes the former one.

They then see Paul laying hands on the 12 and them receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit ( similar to Acts 8:9-24 ) and automatically associate the laying on hands with the receiving of the Holy Ghost via a second "baptism" of the Spirit...even though that miracle ended in the first century.



Best wishes.

 

The word Christ loosely means the anointed one.

 

But why the in Jesus' name for everything and only the Book of Acts?

Going to seeing a side of my family that are all Oneness Apostolic's- not looking forwarded to people looking down their nose at me..............

 

The Man with Two Brains

He also repeats it in L.A. Story a cute and highly underrated film.
Even Sarah Jessica Parker is charming in it.

 

Interesting. What do you annoint with?

 

LOL......like I said some Baptist just can’t handle the word “anointing,” etc.

Some Catholic’s will even try to parallel it to their Pagan last rites- whatever.

Baptist’s were running the aisles and taking a fit for the Lord before there were any Pentecostal’s.

Many Baptist’s have become to reverend and legalistic these days- sit in church like a tomb stone waiting to fall over.


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Now now.....you are not showing them any love

 

I think many Baptists would not want to have the annoiting as say Charasmatics define it, as in watching the results among WoF/health and wealth heretics!

 

Exactly and could not agree more especially doctrinally. The only anointing I am speaking of is in Jas 5 I think it was.

When a soul is saved they are as anointed as they will ever get knowing we all fight that flesh thing

That second blessing thing, tongues, etc. are all out of Satan’s playbook- emotions, feelings, religion, works, etc.

The 2nd blessing is in many Baptist circles. I heard a Baptist Evangelist touch on it a couple times-


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