{"id":2091,"date":"1998-05-24T14:01:00","date_gmt":"1998-05-24T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2025-06-07T20:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:08:46","slug":"baptised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2091","title":{"rendered":"Baptised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 24 May, SO<span class=\"pc_hidden\">Sylvia Osborne<\/span> was baptised by immersion on confession of her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On that occasion she was asked the following two questions which she answered in the affirmative:<br>Firstly, &#8216;Are you trusting the Lord Jesus Christ alone for your salvation?&#8217; <br>And secondly, &#8216;Do you promise, from this time forth, the Holy Spirit helping you, to strive to obey the Lord in all things?&#8217; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>During the evening SO recounted the following as to how she had arrived at this decision:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly five years ago my life changed completely. I had an accident and my injuries are permanent. I live on my own on the first floor. This is important as you will see later. About two years ago during Lent, I had a desire to worship the Lord our Father. So great was this desire that I knew I had to go to Church. The problem was this, I cannot walk very far. I used to look out of my window on a Sunday morning and see someone drive up to pick up a little old lady who must have been a neighbour. Feeling sure that she was being taken to Church I decided that the only option available to me was to run to the front door and ask if I could go with them. This presented me with several problems: because of the accident I could not run and going down stairs is a real problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8230; I didn&#8217;t know what religion they were <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230; would the car already be full? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230; and of course would I be welcome? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This left me with a feeling that I knew I would have to go out and find a Church for myself. Several weeks went by, then something incredible happened. Usually when my doorbell rings I do not answer it. One reason is because the stairs cause me a problem, secondly because it takes me so long that whoever is at the door gives up and goes away. However, on this very special occasion I did manage to answer the door, the visitor did wait and when I opened the door I met with EH<span class=\"pc_hidden\">Ernie<\/span>, the London City Missionary. He spoke about our Heavenly Father for a while on the doorstep but because I was beginning to feel achy and needed to sit down, I did something very stupid. I didn&#8217;t want EH to go in case he never came back again, so invited him up for a cup of coffee, but at no time did I feel threatened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We talked for over an hour and then prayed. Before he left me he suggested that there might be a woman from the Church who could come and give me Bible Studies. I had no paper on which to write my telephone number, so I ended up writing it on a little scrap of an egg carton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EH left, but a few weeks later I received a phone call from GE<span class=\"pc_hidden\">Gill<\/span>. Some may call it a coincidence but this was around the time of Pentecost. GE started to visit once a week, every week, and still does. Through these studies it became obvious to me that I needed a Saviour. It was during one of these visits that GE asked me if l felt ready to confess my sins and to accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. I was ready and I prayed to the Lord, asking him to forgive me for my sins and make me his own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was about eighteen months ago, during which time I have been able to attend the Church services. I was immediately received with great love, for which I thank everyone. I have now come to the point in my love for Christ Jesus that I feel it is right to show my commitment to the Lord by being baptised as he has commanded. It was during the baptism of TS<span class=\"pc_hidden\">Toni Smith<\/span> that I decided to take this step of obedience. Since that time I have spent the intermediate months in preparing for today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I greatly look forward to being a valued member of this Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SO<span class=\"pc_hidden\">Sylvia Linda Osborne<\/span> 8 November 1952 to 5 January 2000<span class=\"pc_hidden\">her families: Jennings and Osborne<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 24 May, SOSylvia Osborne was baptised by immersion on confession of her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}