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A Few Thoughts on Baptism

To come out of our blogging hibernation, I decided to post some thoughts about baptism services. Recently (sort of) our church has moved the baptism service from the Sunday evening bible study to the Sunday morning worship service. I was just thinking about this today and got pretty excited for several reasons: It involves more people (evening service averages 30-40 people and the morning service 250-300 (rough estimates, no idea really but you get the point)). It is a great, exciting, and joyous time not only for the individual being baptized but also for the church body. It is essentially like the announcing of a birth of a baby or the marriage of two people. It marks a healthy and growing church. It could and should encourage people to share their faith. It is an opportunity to boldly and clearly present the gospel during the worship service. I just hope people can see these things and be excited about it too.