Not wanting to get into a debate on baptism (we've been over it again and again here and it hasn't always been pretty, on both sides!) but when I saw the following, I thought about Pil's claim that 3,000 people couldn't have been immersed on Pentecost in a single day.

Not endorsing Rick Warren, of course (his advertisement for this day was an atrocity...) but the Baptist Press says he baptized 800 people in a 3.5 hour long marathon. At that rate, it would take 13.125 hours to immerse 3,000 people. Plus, it is not at all unlikely there was more than one person performing the baptisms (as there could have been at Warren's service too).

All you would have to do is triple the number of baptizers at Warren's service and you could easily have 3,000 immersed in a single day.

True godliness is a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences Him as Lord, embraces His righteousness, and dreads offending Him worse than death~ Calvin