IMMERSIONIST CHECK LIST
To help remedy this situation, I hereby offer for your consideration the following immersionist’s checklist: Number one – Remove your watch. I once heard a baptismal end with “In the name of the Father, the Son and … Great Scott, I forgot…my watch!” Number two – Instruct young children not to play in the water. I remember watching a father and his young son being baptized. While the pastor reverently lowered the father into the waters, his curious boy passed by – lightly flutter kicking before the white-robed tableau. Number three – If the water is cold, instruct the baptize not to say “Brrr” out loud. I remember one blue candidate interrupting the minister’s baptismal flow: “I now…{‘Brrr’}…baptize you…{‘Brrr’}…in the name of the Father…{‘Brrr’}and {‘BrrrrBrrrrr’}…” At last the “Brrrs” had grown too loud to hear in whose honor the baptism was occurring. Number four – Don’t let the cares of the day interrupt your train of thought. Once a pastor I…
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