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Handout - Renewing Our Baptism, David Bast, Betty Jo Bast, Mary Behm, Mike Danielson, Steve Eldersveld, Leslie Overway, Philip Rose, Steve Robbins, Amy Van Gunst, Mark Vogel, Matt Vogel, Randy Wolthuis, Lisa Eldersveld, Carole Fields, Paula Vanderzee, Susan Wilson

Symposium on Worship Archive

Several practices in Christian worship remind us of our baptism. The entire season of Lent is not first of all an extended meditation on the suffering and death of Jesus, but rather a preparation for or remembrance of our baptism. The declaration of pardon following the prayer of confession is, in many churches, read by the pastor from the baptismal font, a reminder of the grace that is sealed to us in our baptism. Several denominations have developed "remembering your baptism" services. In some of these services, worshipers are invited to physically touch the water of the baptismal font as …