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Originally Posted by Sherri
We rarely baptize someone the day they ask to be baptized. We have someone from the staff or baptismal committee meet with them and make sure that they understand repentance, and what they are about to do. We don't take it lightly, and we don't want to baptize someone who is going to blatantly continue in their sin.
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That's just good pastoring Sherri.
So often , some of us are in such a rush to get someone in the water so we can get our baptismal count up, that we have no concern that they understand the commitment to Christ it represents.
The baptismal candidate should enter the waters odf baptism much like a bride or groom uproach the marriage covenant.
We'd have better retention of peopple if we baptized our new converts with knowledge before we baptized with water.
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