CELEBRATING NEWNESS OF LIFE

I don’t know that there’s a more beautiful sight in worship services than that of people coming forward to accept Christ ... to join this family of believers ... to rededicate their lives. We had a powerful picture of that last weekend when Tim Lee preached. And this past weekend we experienced another amazing moment in the life of our church when we baptized 94—spontaneously.

We began the series The Gospel of God, teaching from some of the greatest chapters in the Bible. We started with the message “The Supremacy of the Gospel” focusing on 1 Corinthians 15:1–4.

And at the end of the services (Jarrett Stephens on Saturday and I on Sunday) invited those who have never been baptized, those who’d been waiting or those who were making first-time decisions for Christ, to come and be baptized right at that moment. We praise God for the 94 adults and children who came forward!

Those who were new believers, we counseled and will continue to do so, and the little ones will be enrolled in our New Christians Class.

This weekend they learned that the clear teaching of Scripture is that every believer should be baptized as a testimony of saving faith in Jesus Christ.

Immersion reminds us of the burial of our sin through the blood of Christ just as emerging from the water is symbolic of victory over death and a brand new start.

Upon making a profession of faith, confessing Christ, they identified with Christ in His death, burial and Resurrection, and were raised to walk in newness of life. What a beautiful picture that is of Christ’s baptism and what a beautiful sight it was to witness....

To God be the glory!