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[ 0 ] March 20, 2009 |

Baptism

The last week or so has been an inspiring time for me. We have baptized 7 adults and have two more on the calendar for this weekend. For me I always know God is at work when people make the decision to profess faith in Christ and then follow that with adult baptism. I got to baptize a family of 4, their son was home from college and they were ready to join together as a committed Christian family, a young man who began reading The Transformation Journal in January and was ready to begin a new life, another who came up after service with a tear in his eye ready to become a baptized Christian, Sharon Baptized a young lady who is preparing to get married and was ready to make a commitment to follow Jesus Christ to bring a real faith into a new marriage, and we have to teenage boys on the calendar for Baptism this Sunday.  I think of it like this: When Jesus was Baptized God spoke from heaven, “THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED”.  I think whenever we baptize one of our children or an adult makes a profession at the time of this great act of grace we call baptism, God still says the same thing, “THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, DAUGHTER, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED….THIS IS MY BELOVED FAMILY IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED…THIS IS MY BELOVED BABY GIRL OR BABY BOY IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED…AND MAYBE…THIS IS MY BELOVED CHURCH IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED. God is at work here….people coming to Him is always the evidence.
Mike

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About miker: I am the Senior pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Mansfield where I have led the Church for more than 15 years. Our mission statement is "Making disciples of Jesus Christ who will love God, love others, and serve the world. This has been taken so to heart by this Church family that First Mansfield has become one of the top 50 attended Methodist Churches in nation impacting not only our local area, but our denomination and world. View author profile.

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