Yes, what you say is true and does make sense. But I wonder if the Word
agrees with this. The Ethiopian eunuch that Phillip baptized did not take
time to get grounded in the Word, neither did Phillip take time to ground
him. Neither did the others who were baptized in the examples that God has
given us in His Word, as far as I can see.
I agree, myself, with everything you say. But when I hold it up to the
Light, questions arise. Are we failing? Why, after all this time, have we
changed the way we do things? Is God telling us to do things different
nowadays? Or are we changing with this world? Do we really have to change
the way we believe and act upon those beliefs to suit the world in which we
live? What are we supposed to conform to? (Rom. 12:2) Myself, I never have
been witness to baptism becoming routine. But I have seen some awesome
things happen to people when they were baptized. One Sunday night, we
baptized seven of our Rangers at church. The Holy Spirit went ahead and
baptized seven Himself that night, one of them my son.
That was shouting time!
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [RR] A line of thought
>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:18:37 EST
>
>Let me try and give you a different perspective. Baptisim is a serious
>matter
>and should not be taken lightly. I grew up in and A/G church and I think
>through the years it became more of a ceremony you went through. It became
>very routine much like communion has. We do it, we understand it, but we
>don't give it much thought and in some ways we take it lightly. Recently
>we
>changed denoninational ties to the Christian Reformed Church. Each church
>is
>different but at our's communion is not done on a monthly basis like it was
>when I grew up, but when we do , it becomes a time of interspection and
>prayer and you are encouraged not to take it lightly. The same with
>baptisim. They don't do it just because you just got saved. They want you
>to
>be sure of your salvation and be committed and understand you commitment
>before you are baptised and frankly sometimes kids dont fully understand
>what they are doing. The kids and even parents need to be well grounded in
>the word before they take that step. So, yes it would be good to wait until
>the boys are back at church and have had some more teaching. Also you do
>not
>want parents thinking you are doing something behind their backs. We must
>always be above board now a dayslest someone thing we are being cultish.
>You
>might even say it is a common sense thing to do and in no way would you be
>shirking your responsibility as a Commander.
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