coming to Jesus

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