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Thank you for your response.  After two days of prayer, bible reading (KJV) and fasting, I came to the same conclusion.  I have contacted the pastor, advised him that my sinful pride of being baptized where Jesus was baptized had been a sticking point which prevented me from asking to join the membership.  I also asked to be baptized and offered to destroy the Jordan baptismal certificate, if he believed I should.  He accepted me for local baptism and scheduled it for the 13th.  He also advised me to keep the certificate and pride of that baptism,  but to recognize that it's was meaningful to Christ, but lacked the scriptural requirements for a local church.  

Thank you for your response.  After two days of prayer, bible reading (KJV) and fasting, I came to the same conclusion.  I have contacted the pastor, advised him that my sinful pride of being baptized where Jesus was baptized had been a sticking point which prevented me from asking to join the membership.  I also asked to be baptized and offered to destroy the Jordan baptismal certificate, if he believed I should.  He accepted me for local baptism and scheduled it for the 13th.  He also advised me to keep the certificate and pride of that baptism,  but to recognize that it's was meaningful to Christ, but lacked the scriptural requirements for a local church.  

What a blessing this site is already!  I agree with your posting... let me add... "2nd TImothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine."                             Now-days it seems to be "out of season" and more and more people not only see the gospel as foolishness but are downright offended.  But even though they may not seem "open" to the word of God, only God knows each heart and mind.  We plant the seed, and if there is to be any increase... that is up to God.  Only he knows what type of ground it is planted in...Every time I share the gospel I pray and ask for God's will in in how the message is received.  I also ask for His strength to hold me up to continue to spread His word... even if it makes me feel as though no-one is listening, I must trust the Lord, for only He knows who will or will not be receptive.  He didn't say... preach only to those who you think might like to hear... He makes it clear, whether or not it's the "in thing" or the "out of season" thing... do it always!  So glad to have found this site as it seems the world is really crumbling, and I lack true Christian friends to converse with.  Hoping to meet some here. 

Glory to God!  That is good, sound advice coming again from your pastor!  

Thank you for your response.  After two days of prayer, bible reading (KJV) and fasting, I came to the same conclusion.  I have contacted the pastor, advised him that my sinful pride of being baptized where Jesus was baptized had been a sticking point which prevented me from asking to join the membership.  I also asked to be baptized and offered to destroy the Jordan baptismal certificate, if he believed I should.  He accepted me for local baptism and scheduled it for the 13th.  He also advised me to keep the certificate and pride of that baptism,  but to recognize that it's was meaningful to Christ, but lacked the scriptural requirements for a local church.  

Praise God that you were saved!  However well meaning and cool it was to be baptized in the Jordan River, it was not biblical as it was not done under the authority of a New Testament Church of the kind that Christ built and died for during his earthly ministry.  As the scriptures teach, only saved members in good standing of a local New Testament Church can partake in the Lord's Supper.  Swallow your pride and get with your pastor and get baptized!  You are not a member of the body/bride until a local NT church votes you in.  There is no such thing as the universal, invisible church.
There is no conflict at all.  The table is restricted to members of a local church in good standing.  See 1 Corinthians, chapters 5 and 11.  As for the King James Bible, well if you are reading anything else it's not pure but tainted and poisonous.  Get rid of it.  ALL modern bible versions are based on the manuscripts discovered in EGYPT in the 1840s and have proven themselves to be fraudulent, and therefore, not of God.  God promised to preserve His Word and He did so with the King James Bible.  It is perfect and inerrant and you can trust every word in it.
While we like talking bible here, it sounds to me as if your better half is united with a sound New Testament Church of the kind that Christ built and died for during his earthly ministry.  Talk to the men and allow them to teach and mentor you.  Doubtless your wife and the members of her church have been praying for your salvation for longer than you may realize, get scripturally baptized and join, it's a command from God and the first step of a new believer.  You've just begun an exciting journey, don't diminish it with foolish pride; I wasted three years and an untold number of blessings by not having God's preserved Word in my hands early on.

Thank you for your response.  After two days of prayer, bible reading (KJV) and fasting, I came to the same conclusion.  I have contacted the pastor, advised him that my sinful pride of being baptized where Jesus was baptized had been a sticking point which prevented me from asking to join the membership.  I also asked to be baptized and offered to destroy the Jordan baptismal certificate, if he believed I should.  He accepted me for local baptism and scheduled it for the 13th.  He also advised me to keep the certificate and pride of that baptism,  but to recognize that it's was meaningful to Christ, but lacked the scriptural requirements for a local church.