Baptisms

I love doing baptisms. I have now done as many in 5 weeks as I did in the prior 3 1/2 years. What I like about baptisms is that everyone in the congregation has a role and responsibility to model faith and speak it into the life of the newly baptized. Isabella, James, and Christopher all have incredible Godparents and grandparents, but they also have all of us. I pray that the church is PACKED on Wednesday from 6:30-8 pm for Soup, Song, Story, and Sacrament. During "story time," we're going to take the little kids up to the nursery and read to them. The teens and adults will watch the Nooma DVD called Lump.

Here's Rob Bell's description of it: A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some are small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us even have things that people close to us don't know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to deal with it, do we? We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much what we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves, it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and always will, and there's nothing we can do to change that.

While I'd love to hear what Apollos had to say, I'm more interested in hearing your story and how dealing with sin affects your faith on a daily basis. Come join the conversation...