SUNDAY'S COMING

I'm pretty pumped about Sunday. I like the format we adopted in the Spring of bringing together baptisms and communion every three months on one special Sunday. Of course we celebrate communion at other times too, but pairing it up with baptism is pretty cool.

It takes quite a bit of effort to baptize by immersion in a movie theater. The esential props are a horse trough (!) and countless gallons of water which have to be carried around 500 feet. But I'd far rather have baptisms in front of the whole church than off in some other place with just a fraction of our folks there.

Back in Scotland we generally baptized in the North Sea, which got a little chilly during the winter - that was when I learned that the pastor does not have to do the baptizing!