People experience life – and learn – in three primary ways: by seeing, by hearing and by doing/experiencing. Part of the incredible power of baptism services is that we get to actually see evidence of the transformation of someones life. We did our best to build a process to help people to really understand and be impacted by the act baptism – God takes things from there and does the heavy lifting.
Here’s what happens:
1.There’s a class a week or so ahead of time so that people know what they’re saying “YES!” to;
2. Before the service, the candidates all gather and are walked through it again;
3. They enter as a group while people clap in encouragement [old school, but powerful];
4. Worship starts – one by one, they walk forward and pin their sins to the cross, walk to the tank and are baptized.
5. We give “BAPTIZED” t-shirts to them as a reminder – many wear them right away and are congratulated by the congregation.
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I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
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