Student Baptisms

I get emails, facebooks, communication cards and calls about students wanting to be baptized and the first thing I try to discern is…who is making the ask? Does the sentence start:
“I want my son to be baptized…” or
does it start “My son wants to be baptized…”

Those are two very different conversations. When a student is ready to be baptized, by his or her own free will, we get pretty excited around here because of what it represents. Baptism is not something that means anything if it’s forced or coerced. It’s got to come from the heart and from the individual. It’s not fire insurance and it doesn’t save you. It’s a symbol. It’s a right of passage. It is essentially saying…”I own my own faith. It is mine. I am choosing this.” (and much more)

Ross McKnight was baptized at our last Night of Worship and we want to encourage the conversation to start at home.

The first step is making sure that your student has accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. Once that’s taken place, when they are ready to show the whole world that they’ve made that commitment… baptism is a public proclamation of an inner transformation.

Parents, you have more influence over your kids than anyone else EVER will. Use it wisely.

Questions?

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