Help i am frustrated!

[Sam]

I'm part of the Home and Hospital Visitation Team for a local Vineyard Church. Even though I do not go there any more I still help with their visitation.

A few years ago I went for a home visit to the parents of a woman who goes to the Vineyard. I had been to the hospital to pray for the mother when she had knee surgery. This trip was to the home to pray for the father who had fallen from a ladder. They are Roman Catholic and were unhappy that their adult daughter had "been baptized at the Vineyard and joined that Church." they had her "baptized" as a baby. Now this was an adult daughter who was not even living at home. I explained to them that the Vineyard does not have a formal membership. Anyone who goes there and considers themselves a "member" is a member. I explained to them that what their daughter did was not a rejection of what they had done when she was a baby. They had her baptized as a baby and made vows to raise her in the church. I told them they must have done a pretty good job of raising her as a Christian because she later chose to be baptized on her own. I told them what they did for her was fine but she just wanted to be baptized as an adult to publicly declare her own personal decision to give her life to the Lord. They seemed pretty good with my explanation.