. . . . . .Lynn Louise Says . . .
Psalm 62
Romans 6:23
Why should you get baptized? Because if you consider yourself a follower of Jesus, then, after repenting and believing (Mark 1:15), the first formal, public act of following that Jesus requires of you is baptism.
Baptism is a church’s act of affirming and portraying a believer’s union with Christ by immersing him or her in water, and a believer’s act of publicly committing him or herself to Christ and his people, thereby uniting a believer to the church and marking off him or her from the world.
Another reason to get baptized is to publicly profess your faith in Jesus. Faith in the resurrection power of God is why those Christians presented themselves for baptism. And publicly expressing that same faith is why you should be baptized too.
Openly declaring your faith in Christ should be part of the regular fabric of your life from now on. One of the first things people learn about you should be that you’re a Christian.
Psalm 84
Luke 23:34
Episcopalians and friends call the Bible the Word of God, not the “words of God.” It's possible to have translation errors, but it's even more likely that we read Godly acts and thinking that are NOT explainable. Faith is believing in something, when common sense tells you not to. We look for deeper meaning and life lessons. So, Episcopalian’s and friends study the Bible hoping to eventually get it right.
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We've discovered that the number one essential ingredient to studying the Bible is humility. We will never get it all right. We will also never outgrow the need to keep trying. Perhaps this is because it is not so much the destination (ultimate knowledge) that matters to us in this earthly pilgrimage as it is the journey itself (walking in faith). Oddly, we do not learn or grow from our triumphs, but from our disasters. When we “read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest” the Holy Scripture, we will make blunders. Yet those are the very areas in which God will be calling us to grow.
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The second ingredient, but equal to the first, is prayerfulness. Actually, this is the condition under which Luther had confidence in individual Christians to read and understand the Bible, that it is to be done while praying. Maybe that accounts for so much misreading and disagreeing—we so often read without praying.
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