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    Tennessee Church Sees 1,000 Baptisms in Less Than Four Months

    'I've Never Seen Anything Like This': Tennessee Church Sees 1,000 Baptisms in Less Than Four Months

    The spark that ignites the flame isn't always all that bright at first.

    That has certainly been true for Robby Gallaty, the senior pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where 1,048 people have been baptized since Sunday, Dec. 20, following nearly a year of what Gallaty described as "silence and solitude" in his own life.

    "Here's what happened," the pastor told Faithwire during a recent Zoom conversation, leaning into the camera after taking his glasses off. "I began sitting with the Lord for 10 months. Then, finally, Dec. 15, 2020, I'm on the porch, and I hear as clear as day these words in my head, after a season of silence and solitude: 'Spontaneous baptism.'"

    "I thought, 'Spontaneous baptism?'" Gallaty said. "First of all, I had never done spontaneous baptism — I'd only been a Christian for 18 years at that time. I'd never seen spontaneous baptism. I'd heard of abuses of spontaneous baptism. But I was obedient."

    The following Sunday, the preacher recalled, was the lowest attended service in his five-year tenure at Long Hollow. The country was, after all, still in the throes of a pandemic and Tennessee was seeing a spike in COVID-19 infections at the time.

    Gallaty said it felt as if everything was working against what he was confident God had so clearly instructed him to do.

    "It was like all the water we could put on the offering," he said, referring to the Old Testament story in 1 Kings 18, when Elijah pours water on a sacrifice in the midst of a drought so that, when it was consumed by fire, it was clear it was by God's doing alone.

    On that Sunday in mid-December, 99 people were baptized.

    "I'd never seen anything like this before in my life," the pastor said, adding he assumed that must have been the end of the "revival" he sought after, until he returned to his porch once again that night.

    "The Lord gave me this visual," he said, recalling sitting outside his house that Sunday evening. "He showed me, 'These are the heavy raindrops, Robby, before the torrential downpour that's coming.'"

    Gallaty then reached out to his fellow ministry leaders at Long Hollow and, on the following Tuesday, just three days before Christmas, the church hosted a baptism-only service where another 81 people showed up.

    Story is long. Rest at the link and video:

    ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Tennessee Church Sees 1,000 Baptisms in Less Than Four Months – Faithwire

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