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One Love
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Date Joined Jan 2003
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Posted 10/31/2005 10:25 PM (GMT -6)

Ok...ok...wow.

Pastor electrocuted in church
Waco - A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church on Sunday morning after grabbing a microphone while partially submerged, a church employee said.
www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1826282,00.html

www.abpnews.com/news/news_detail.cfm?NEWS_ID=1014

KWTX-TV (Waco, TX): Rev. Kyle Lake, the pastor of Waco's University Baptist Church, died Sunday morning in a freak accident during a baptism as his congregation looked on in horror.

Lake was in the process of baptizing a woman at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the church at South 17th Street and Dutton Avenue when a microphone fell in the baptismal.

This happened in front of 800 people at morning service.

Ok. From a discussion board talking about this event...

How was God involved?

1) Giving this pastor the freedom to have a fatal accident in front of 800 parishoners while baptizing.

2) Warring against nasty, nasty demons who were trying to get this pastor to have a terrible accident, but lost big time.

3) Ordaining this fatal accident to occur for some inscrutable, yet good reason.

Choose one, Christians.

This is one for the Darwin Awards for sure...
www.darwinawards.com

Um...wow. That's all I could say. Wow.

At any rate, to give contributions...
www.ubcwaco.org/2004/ubc_holder.html

The newest mantra:

God graciously FINDS us meaningful when God doesn't need to do it and we, in ourselves, can't do it.

"Hmm. Why not? What the hell. Let's try it."
--God

Sahid
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Date Joined Jun 2004
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Posted 10/31/2005 10:54 PM (GMT -6)

I don't know how an honest person could do more than guess. He was a good guy. Pray for his wife and kids.

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

Tigress
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Total Posts : 1252

Posted 11/2/2005 6:20 PM (GMT -6)

Kinda reminds me of that guy who fell asleep during Paul's sermon and fell out the window and died. Paul resurrected him, though. I wonder if anybody tried that.

Tigress

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"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

Starkman
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Date Joined Oct 2001
Total Posts : 1747

Posted 11/5/2005 4:09 PM (GMT -6)

God was involved to the extent that He watched the guy grab the microphone.

Starkman

My teacher used to say that whenever he read Scripture, he would always ask the question, "What does this have to say about the character of God?" Working off his thinking, as I read Scripture, I have come to ask, "What does this have to say about the heart and passion of God's desire for relationship for us?

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