The Church

## Specterium's First Baptist Church

### Bases

The First Baptist Church, The Second Baptist Church and The Third Baptist Church

## Status

### Status

disbanded

The holiest group on the server, their main goal was to build The Baptist Church, help newfags and follow the ways of Jesus Christ.

## History

### First era

When Paul\_Oak started with building the Baptist Church, he decided to invite some people to help, so he invited Fauxreel420 (who had no base after The Cult's one got griefed) and Mo7ang, he also invited Michi games, but he didn't join, although he gave some stuff.

At first, the group got some "smh"'s because they used Litematica, but when Faux and Paul joined AE Army, the church became more known and people started to like Paul.

When Faux got kicked out of AE Army, he could still stay at the church, Paul also mostly focused on the Church and was only in AE by name.

In early June, Paul decided to baptize people to make them a part of the group, he also made a discord for the group. At this point, people started to consider the Church as an actual group. Michi got invited again to the group and decided to join.

On 12/06/2020, Paul said he would become mostly inactive due to personal stuff. He still wanted the church to be built, so he made Fauxreel and Soidzoid deacons. They act as leaders of the church and when they disagree, the debate will be solved with praying and maybe a holy vote.

During this time, a lot of farms are starting to be made at the Church, like cobblestone farms and a raid farm, make it more and more look like a base and less like what it originally was intended to be. This also causes some players like diamond\_ra to just stay at the church to make use of the farms but without help. Also, some conflicts start to happen at the church, although they're mostly stopped before they can escalate. Paul said no fighting on church ground, but there was still some fighting close to it.

In mid to late May, the church got griefed by an unknown player, speculated by many to be v6q\_(not v6q) who had said before he wanted to grief it. He also built the Kaabaaa at the church.

Michi asks to rebuild the base and to return to the original idea of the church, but he deacons decided to build a new base with private coords, they also made PowPeaTea an elder. Sadly, the group became pretty much inactive not too long after the first church got griefed. Only Soidzoid and Pow would sometimes be active at this new church.

### Second Era

On 6/08/2020, Paul returns to Spec and is lead to the church ruins by Cyphco. Paul baptized him and makes him his bodyguard.

When he came back, he talked with Michi, SoloMaker, and Perstrix about the future of the group. They had multiple ideas, like besides making one big church or cathedral far out, also making some smaller churches closer to Spawn. They also had the idea of building a nether church and making chapels along the highways. Michi also said the church should look less like a base, because that killed the previous church. Paul also stated that he would make more deacons so they would be less powerful and it would make the ruling of the group more stable. Deacons can now also be a part of another group. After this, he made SoloMaker a deacon and Michi and Perstrix elders, Michi was also seen as a potential future deacon.

On 11/08/2020 they adopt a new banner. Michi builds 4 chapels on the highways close to spawn. After this, he's made deacon and Perstrix is also made a deacon. Michi's first act as deacon was baptizing Lawrence\_st(later revealed to be a Paul\_Oak alt).

In early September Paul builds a chapel right at 0,0. It survives a few days before getting griefed by an unknown player. The group also joins The Second Alliance. Later this month Law get kicked out of the group because he declared war on the Alliance .

In early October, Paul gives away 50 kits, which he had been making all September, at a spawn chapel. Sadly the event got interupted by Storm who killed people for an unknown reason. Still the event was a succes, because the playercount peaked at 30, being the highest in months.

### Downfall

After people realised Paul Oak is Lawrence\_St, people got mad at Paul and said he didn't follow the Christian values he was talking about all the time. Team V disbanded the group by removing everyone from the discord and deleting all channels, they also griefed The Second Baptist Church together with TriggeredCat. Soid wasn't really happy with them griefing the Church, but he let them do it because anyone eventually would grief it anyway. Some players called this event "The Reformation".

### Revival

Paul would later revive the church and start making a Third Baptist Church. The group was meant to be secret, but a member named SneakyFish313 would tell Michi about it, later they made the group public.

The group is mostly made up of new members, Babylon and Paul\_Oak are still in it but mostly inactive in the group, only Soidzoid still plays actively in this group. Making this more so a newfag group than what the original church was.

Besides building on their main base, they also make spawn churches.

At the end of 2020 the team becomes pretty inactive.

### The End

In late January 2021, the leader of The Holy Inquisition, Crafn, asks Soid to help him huntdown furries, aka TriggeredCat. Soid says no because he doesn't mind Trig. After this, Crafn calls the Church a fake church and they grief the 3rd baptist church. The next The Church and The Covenant griefs 2 Holy Inquisition bases.

Throughout 2021, The Church would go completely inactive and on August the 10th 2021, it would be considered disbanded by Paul.

## 3rd Era Members

### Chaplain

* Epicmica
* Jeaen

### Trusted Members

* Cliffsblade(Fauxreel420)
* Sneakyfish313
* clgpro23
* Hale1812
* SilentInterloper
* AthenasThong
* Darklord
* Jamo
* DuckGoesMoo
* M1ndspace
* 8zi\_

### Members

* AlphaBarron
* AlisterIsCool
* NotDying

## Members at the end of the Second Era

### Deacons

The leaders of the church.

* Paul\_Oak(the founder and previous sole leader)
* Fauxreel420(one of the first members)
* Soidzoid(joined later than most members, but had done a lot of work)
* SoloMaker
* HarrisonOakes(later revealed to be an alt of Paul\_Oak)
* Michi games(the first person to get baptized)
* Perstrix

### Trusted members

People with base coords.

* PowPeaTea
* Miljandro
* AthenasThong
* 8zi\_
* PowTeaPea
* RealRocket\_
* BenjaminOakes(later revealed to be an alt of Paul\_Oak)
* clgpro23
* Mo7ang(one of the first members)

### Baptized Players

Players who got baptized and went on to other occupations.

* Provokator3000
* redbendystraw
* Diamond\_Ra
* Yeboidon
* Cyphco
* Shalev
* Phabled\_XD
* Havic228
* b1gbo1h20
* IamDavanna
* Mega\_Potato
* Owen
* M1ndspace
* Kryolite
* 0x0z
* zfih
* MsTaman
* Denger\_1
* Kimravi
* Liquidityx

### Excommunicated players

People who were baptized, but got kicked out of the group due to them doing something very unchristian.

* Lawrence\_St(later revealed to be an alt of Paul\_Oak)
* Storm

If these players repent, and show that they no longer intend to follow their own desires, but rather, the desires of God, than they may be welcomed back with open arms.

## Bible Quote

### Romans 8:38-39

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.