Being True to Our Baptism

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"For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Galatians 3:27 English Standard Version

It stinks that conversations about baptism divide Christians. Should we baptize babies or shouldn't we? Can you sprinkle people with water or must they be immersed?  In these debates we lose the significance of Paul's words to the Galatians.  In baptism we wear new clothes.

So much of our identity is caught up in what we wear. I wore button on suspenders, logging pants and flannel shirts in high school as my rebellion against the "cool" kids (remember, I'm 58).

Clothes speak volumes about a person's social status. All of us have judged people by what they wear, and have determined whether this is a person I want to associate with or not based on their appearance.

The beauty of our baptism into Christ is that it doesn't matter what we wear on the outside, our true clothing is that of Jesus Christ.  We wear his death and his life.  In Romans 6 Paul reminds us that we are buried with Christ in baptism and then raised to a new way of living.

Baptism marks us as a child of God through the merits of Christ. And with this new clothing we venture out into life, exploring what it means to wear this new clothing.

We're being true to God when we wear our baptismal garments.

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