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Christian Baptism

Can be done if the child is your own or adopted, and either way you are probably aware that life is beyond human control and that you have no doubt recieved a precious and lovely gift

Here are some of the reasons that people chose to baptise

1. To surround a child with love and promise(Gods, the community of the faith and the parents)

2. Because a child is much more then ours, he/she is also Gods creation and child too!

3. Parents are not enough, children need to belong to a community. People who share a history, way of life and a hope for the future

4. Ever human needs Gods forgiving and liberating power when it comes to sin

5Baptism helps tell the story of Gods love revealed through Jesus Christ.

6. We want a child to be raised in an abundant dwelling of Christ.

Baptism comes from the word BAPTISMA which means to wash or immerge in water, it is sometimes called to great bath of the Christian Church

Jesus was baptised, but not so he could repent but in inauguration of Jesus's ministry. He went forth after his baptosm to proclaim the kingdom of god by healing the sick, casting out demons and forgiving sinners

Baptism will give you a unique form of community life.

-the teaching of the apostles

-the FELLOWSHIP( a community that supports eachothere ie congregation)

-the BREAKING OF THE BREAD9communal meals, the Lords supper emulating the last supper)

-the PRAYERS(communal worship, thankgiving,intercession,lament)

and a life of witnessing and loving service to all in need

The Lords supper is central to the life of bapitzed people. Here the risen Christ was present in the midst of the community as they shared a precious meal.

Baptism is:

-dying and rising with Christ to new life

-new birth, change so complete that it is like being born again, born from above

-a cleansing bath, the washing away of sin

-being sealed by the holy spirit, Gods pledge that we are his children

-transfer from old ownership to new ownership, an old creaton to a new creation

-being clothed in a new robe, covered by Jesus Christ full of forgivness and righteousness

-a passage on Noahs ark, saved from the waters of choas and death

-enlightenment, the illumination of the holy spirit, the dawning of the light of Christ

-adoption into a new fmily, becoming a child of God

-being grafted into Christ, to live in Christ, to be nourished by Christ

The gifts of Baptim

-friendship with God

-the presence of Christ

-the Holy Spirit, empowerment

-forgivness

-a home, a family, a household

-identity

-resurrection/eternal life

-new birth and the glorious promise that we are the children of God, and nothing in all creaton wil seperate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord!!!

Hope that helps!

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