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Converts drown during baptism

I was drawn to a funny but sad story on the internet. This happened at Kinshasa. I curled this story from the internet and it is as follows:

A dozen followers of a revival church in Kinshasa drowned after they jumped into a river to be baptised, local media reported on Monday.
"Curiously, several half-clothed followers never re-surfaced (after diving in). They died by drowning," Democratic Republic of Congo's Le Phare newspaper reported.
The prophetess who was to perform the ceremony, Thetee Kalangangu, fled following the incident, the newspaper said, while irate residents appeared set to destroy the sect's quarters in a poor Kinshasa neighbourhood.
A similar drowning-by-baptism incident occurred two years ago about 50km from the Congolese capital, according to Le Phare.
- AFP

Seeing this story on the web drew my attention to the way people behave during baptism. Maybe my church is different but how can you dive or jump into water when you haven't been called or told to do so. Am was so shocked and surprised at this development. How could some people, excuse me to say behave foolishly like this. If any of these people appear in heaven, i wish the angels would give them at least thirty lashes even before their cases are heard. What excuse would they give for leaving the earth? That they were eager to get baptised so died in the process or what? This is very serious!

My second point is why the prophetess should run away. Did she push them into it? No! according to the story so why should she run away? Maybe she was scared she would be arrested. Hmmmmmmm. This should serve as a lesson to all pastors, priest, prophets and the like. They should clearly spell out procedures to their members before they (the members) put them in trouble.

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