It was good to be in corporate worship today.  It was one of those Ripley “Believe it or Not” days with both ordinances taking place in the same service!  The three baptisms that took place really moved me.  I find myself getting emotional every time I witness a baptism.  I think it has to do in part with the reality that the baton of faith being handed off to a new generation of Jesus’ followers.  God, still at work, something old is something new. It also makes me think back to the sacredness of my own baptism, when I was in high school.  I followed Jesus into his death, burial, and resurrection.  I am seated in the heavenlies with him.  But baptism is also a bittersweet reminder that I have been identified with an outcast. And as the apostle Mark reminds us with his picture of the messianic secret, there is suffering before there is glory.  The Secret has been revealed, but the suffering goes on.

I have decided to follow Jesus…no turning back

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