I was brought up Baptist and thought as a teenager that they were the only group going to heaven. I thought speaking in tongues was of the devil and that all Catholics were going to hell. I spent a summer here in southwest Virginia and would work the restaurant of the morning, hayfield in the afternoon, and go to the revival at night at the Pentecostal Holiness church. It was a wonderful spiritual experience accompanied with a Walton type fellowship and love.
Back in those days we used to have a preacher who was a Methodist preacher who preached at a Baptist church and who would conduct revivals with whoever would have him. People used to ask him how was it that a Methodist preacher could pastor a Baptist church. His reply was that the way he saw it the only difference between the Baptist and Methodist was that the Baptist did not believe in baptism but the Methodist practiced it, and everyone would laugh. As someone brought up Baptist that would give me cause to think and to ponder. I have also heard that Billy Sunday’s worship leader, Homer Rodeheaver, would say that his instrument was a "Methodist trombone" that would occasionally "backslide."
Back in those days we used to have a preacher who was a Methodist preacher who preached at a Baptist church and who would conduct revivals with whoever would have him. People used to ask him how was it that a Methodist preacher could pastor a Baptist church. His reply was that the way he saw it the only difference between the Baptist and Methodist was that the Baptist did not believe in baptism but the Methodist practiced it, and everyone would laugh. As someone brought up Baptist that would give me cause to think and to ponder. I have also heard that Billy Sunday’s worship leader, Homer Rodeheaver, would say that his instrument was a "Methodist trombone" that would occasionally "backslide."
