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A pastor who helped baptize a crowd of Alabama students after a campus worship event said he witnessed a “movement of the spirit of God.”
Reportedly, approximately 200 Auburn University students decided to be baptized after attending the “Unite Auburn” Christian service. The location lacked a baptismal pool, so the crowd gathered at a lake to receive their initiation into the Christian faith.
“That wasn’t the plan,” Jonathan Pokluda, pastor of Harris Creek Baptist Church, told “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday. “We got into the arena and got to preach from God’s Word and at the end…someone texted and said they weren’t baptized and they wanted to be baptized. They had believed in the death and resurrection of Jesus for forgiveness of sins.”
The pastor said he was “trying to find water” and then went to the red barn and nearby lake.
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The baptisms took place at Auburn’s Red Barn location, about a half mile from Auburn University’s Neville Arena. (Mateo Arenas)
“We went there and thousands of students gathered around the pond,” he said. “Some of them wanted to be baptized. We started having those conversations to make sure they understood the Gospel, that they hadn’t been baptized as believers before, and we started dunking.”
Pokluda said he had a “front row seat” to seeing God move in young adults.
“There’s a work He’s doing and there’s a remnant of people who say, ‘Hey, I’m not interested in vaping. I’m not interested in smoking weed, getting high, doing drugs, having sex. I want to live for something more than that I want to live forever I believe there is a God and I believe he has a purpose in my life and I believe he gave his son Jesus to die for my sins and so I want living through his spirit,’ and that’s what we see, and that’s what we saw last Tuesday in Auburn.
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Michael Floyd, a student who attended the worship event, explained how young people are “wanting God more” and “seeking Christ.”
“It was just a great time to be in the arena and see everything happen,” Floyd said. “It lets people know that college students are unapologetic about their worship and seeking Christ and that we are standing up to stand up for the Kingdom of God, and that it is time to get about our Father’s business. ”
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