Friday night was a great picture of the church in Paul's day, I think. Hopefully, most won't think us blasphemous for doing what we did, but we baptized two people in the Atlantic. Well, I didn't; I just carried their towels.
Our three male leaders baptized two women in the group. First, the leaders told us what baptism was about, then the women gave their testimonies and people who knew them testified on their behalfs that they were walking with Christ, and then we went out to the water and two of the leaders "dunked" them.
It was a great picture of the church as a whole. Not as a denomination or as a specific church body. We all had different beliefs here and there, but baptism isn't about joining a church, it's about publicly displaying that you're part of the church.
Today, you have to be something like a pastor in most circles to baptize people. But who was John the Baptist? Now we think we was amazing, but he certainly didn't have any formal training--he walked around in camel clothes and ate locusts for crying out loud! I think that baptism becomes so unreal because it's so outlined--do this and do that--when really it's your testimony to the world. Why make it so specific and boring? It should be exciting and celebratory!
Church... work on this...
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