While visiting friends over a weekend, I attended church service with their family, and baptisms happened to be occurring that morning. Among the family I sat with was a six-year-old girl, who had not recalled seeing a baptism previously. “What is he doing?” she asked her grandmother, who replied that the man was being baptized. Shocked, the little girl exclaimed, “Doesn’t he know that he’s supposed to take a bath at home?!” Although there are many other differences between a bath and a baptism, private versus public is a big difference. Continue reading The Sacraments as Means of Grace part 2: Baptism →