Our church baptises about once a quarter, I just missed the one in October so I had to wait until yesterday. It felt funny since I had been going to church for so many months and really growing in the Lord. Then my pastor put it in perspective: Basically, you and God have a relationship, but the baptism is similar to a wedding ceremony. It's a sign of your covenant with each other, and to those who witness it. There were a few people, like me, who were originally baptised as infants, who were coming back to do it of our own understanding, there were some kids too. It was sort of cool to be in a room with children, young adults, older folks where normally there is social and age based segregation and structure - i.e. the older people are in control and the young follow.
In that room waiting to be baptised we were all equal, all experiencing the same thing - all equal despite our age, social status, etc differences. For an instant, I thought of what heaven will feel like when the shackles of earthly society fall off us and we are all given spiritual bodies, with no age or sin or predispositions to seperate us.
In that room waiting to be baptised we were all equal, all experiencing the same thing - all equal despite our age, social status, etc differences. For an instant, I thought of what heaven will feel like when the shackles of earthly society fall off us and we are all given spiritual bodies, with no age or sin or predispositions to seperate us.
