The article stresses the role of miracle in Baptist development. It details the death of the author's aunt who asked him to conduct her funeral and the scriptures from the Old and New Testaments that were her favorites and at the same time the author had chosen to use during her funeral. Miraculously, the author noticed two magnets listing two scriptures. That was a spine-tingling moment in which the author felt the presence of God in a powerful way. The miraculous saturates the Baptist story.