Baptism Sunday

God instituted baptism so that you could understand more clearly the promises of the gospel. Baptism is meant to bring Christ’s death and resurrection into your daily reality. Seeing other’s baptism and remembering your own is to physically reenact the drama of the gospel story. Baptism reminds you that you have been united with Christ, buried with Him under the waters of baptism before rising again out of the water to a new life (Rom. 6:3-4). We are all called to reenact the story of baptism, not just to remember it but to make it our own (Mat. 28:19-20). By remembering, you make the benefits of Christ’s death your own. The past becomes a present reality and you are assured of the forgiveness of your sins. Baptism is meant to imprint God’s promises on your heart and confirm that you have been given endless grace in salvation through Jesus Christ. Martin Luther once said, “A Christian life is nothing else than a daily baptism.” Meaning that baptism is a template for Christian living – daily dying to self, daily being resurrected new to Christ.