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Georgia church baptizes 99, sends congregation after the 1

  • September 28, 2021
  • Georgia's The Christian Index
  • Georgia, Latest News, North American Mission Board, SBC
Ninety-nine new believers were baptized at First Baptist Church of Woodstock on a recent Sunday.
(Photo courtesy of The Christian Index)

Georgia church baptizes 99, sends congregation after the 1

Pastor Jeremy Morton sees an important gospel lesson in the 99 people baptized at Georgia’s First Baptist Church Woodstock on a recent Sunday.

“Jesus talks about leaving the 99 and going after the one,” Morton said. “I’m asking everyone at Woodstock to identify their one, to pray for their one and to come up with a plan to share the gospel with their one.”

Sunday’s baptisms coincided with the church’s kickoff of the Who’s Your One evangelism initiative launched in 2019 by then-SBC President J.D. Greear and the North American Mission Board.

Johnny Hunt, the former pastor of FBC Woodstock who now serves as senior vice president of evangelism and leadership at NAMB, returned to the church, preaching about the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8 who was baptized immediately after he understood the gospel and believed.

That sermon triggered a morning of spontaneous baptisms.

Although Morton said none of the baptisms had been scheduled ahead of time, the church had the baptistries filled just in case. They also had changes of clothes and hairdryers on hand.

“It was just one of those days that the Spirit of God settled over the service,” Morton said. “I pray we will get to see another glorious day like this sometime. It was unforgettable.”

Pastor resources

Hunt said NAMB has produced a kit that provides pastors with resources to help kick start what’s hoped to be a wave of personal evangelism in the churches that take advantage of the initiative. He sees it as a way to get Southern Baptists “back to our roots as a gospel-focused people.”

Morton said additional baptisms have already been scheduled at Woodstock for the next few weeks for more people who made professions of faith that day.

FBC Woodstock has long been one of Georgia’s most evangelistic churches, typically baptizing more than 200 people per year and, in some years, far more. In 2012, the church baptized 572 people.

Even so, Morton said Sunday’s spontaneous baptisms were thrilling.

“We baptized people of all nationalities,” Morton said. “We baptized husbands and wives, teenagers, every demographic and age range. I wish it could happen every Sunday.”


EDITOR’S NOTE — Roger Alford is editor of The Christian Index, where this article was originally published.

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