I am tired today...
Tired of being tired.
Tired of washing dishes.
Tired of being stuck indoors.
Tired of having a grumpy baby.
Tired of having a grumpy baby who won't nap.
I feel so tired, that I don't even want to do anything. Which is funny, because I all want to do is get out of my house and be with other people, but don't even feel as though I have the energy to do it.
Lord, give me strength for today.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Charlie got dunked...
Ok...not really.
This past Sunday, Charlie was baptized. And yes, he's an infant.
The church that I belong to accepts both forms of baptism...infant and believer? or is it adult? Anyways...Cody and I made the decision to have Charlie baptized. I'm no expert on baptism, but I thought I'd write out my thoughts leading up to this decision, and why it was important for me to do this.
I really don't agree/like how baptism happens so often these days. I don't understand how it seems to have become something you do after you have 'reached' a certain point in your faith. Maybe you have to put in enough hours or something??? I don't know. Either way, I don't see that in the bible, and I think it's sad that people feel that they aren't good enough, or aren't spiritual enough to be baptized. Any example that I've read about in the bible seems to go hand in hand with believing in Jesus. I don't see people clocking in faith hours, and then being baptized. I personally believe that baptism is more of a first step as opposed to a step that is taken once you have all your ducks in a row.
And that is reason one that I felt it important to baptize Charlie. It is an important first step in faith.
I like the picture of that man who was baptized and went home and had his family baptized. I know it doesn't say the specific ages of his family...but, regardless, he was baptized, went home and had his family baptized. Cody and I were baptized...it just makes sense to me that we would baptize Charlie as well. Maybe that is too simplistic and not a good enough reason, but I'm ok with that. I don't think it shouldbe any more complicated than that.
My big beef is that there seems to be two kinds of baptism now. Infant baptism and believer/adult baptism. I'm pretty sure baptism is baptism is baptism, whether you are a newborn or 100 years old. Nothing irks me more than people who tell me, or others who were baptized as infants that it 'doesn't count'.
I believe that whether you are baptized as an infant, or an adult, or a teen or whatever...you are baptized.
'There is ONE Lord, ONE faith, ONE BAPTISM, and ONE God and Father, who is over all and in all and living through all.' Eph. 4:5
And there is my rant.
We decided to have Charlie baptized.
This past Sunday, Charlie was baptized. And yes, he's an infant.
The church that I belong to accepts both forms of baptism...infant and believer? or is it adult? Anyways...Cody and I made the decision to have Charlie baptized. I'm no expert on baptism, but I thought I'd write out my thoughts leading up to this decision, and why it was important for me to do this.
I really don't agree/like how baptism happens so often these days. I don't understand how it seems to have become something you do after you have 'reached' a certain point in your faith. Maybe you have to put in enough hours or something??? I don't know. Either way, I don't see that in the bible, and I think it's sad that people feel that they aren't good enough, or aren't spiritual enough to be baptized. Any example that I've read about in the bible seems to go hand in hand with believing in Jesus. I don't see people clocking in faith hours, and then being baptized. I personally believe that baptism is more of a first step as opposed to a step that is taken once you have all your ducks in a row.
And that is reason one that I felt it important to baptize Charlie. It is an important first step in faith.
I like the picture of that man who was baptized and went home and had his family baptized. I know it doesn't say the specific ages of his family...but, regardless, he was baptized, went home and had his family baptized. Cody and I were baptized...it just makes sense to me that we would baptize Charlie as well. Maybe that is too simplistic and not a good enough reason, but I'm ok with that. I don't think it shouldbe any more complicated than that.
My big beef is that there seems to be two kinds of baptism now. Infant baptism and believer/adult baptism. I'm pretty sure baptism is baptism is baptism, whether you are a newborn or 100 years old. Nothing irks me more than people who tell me, or others who were baptized as infants that it 'doesn't count'.
I believe that whether you are baptized as an infant, or an adult, or a teen or whatever...you are baptized.
'There is ONE Lord, ONE faith, ONE BAPTISM, and ONE God and Father, who is over all and in all and living through all.' Eph. 4:5
And there is my rant.
We decided to have Charlie baptized.
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