Acts 1:5

⁵ for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

I was reared attending church with my Mother.  I went regularly to Sunday School.  And

I remember most summers going to VBS. With only brief exceptions this was in Southern Baptist churches.

At the age of 26 I was converted in a Southern Baptist church. I attended a Baptist Bible College and I began the Christian ministry in Baptist churches. Then the question arises, "Why are you now a Presbyterian? Aren't they very liberal?” Some of them certainly are. I am not and never have been.

My transition from Baptist to Presbyterian began with my understanding of Baptism in Acts l: 5, and as it follows in Acts 2. These verses convinced me that Baptism was not by immersion but effusion. Jesus tells the apostles here in in Acts 1 that they will soon experience a Baptism. In Acts 2 we are told they were baptized in the Holy Spirit and we are told that this experience is that He was poured out upon them.  The analogy was too immediate and direct for me to disregard.  I could no longer hold to one of the central tenets of the Baptist church.  My exit had begun.