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Opening our baptistries  


Could all Baptist churches open their baptistries in the next 12 months? Could we all get ready for more baptisms?

 
Lynn Green Telford 2019That was the challenge – and the prayer – from General Secretary Lynn Green during the Sunday morning prayer session at the 2019 Baptist Assembly. 
 
She shared she’d recently been in Yorkshire, where she’d heard about a church opening and using its baptistery for the first time in six years.
 
‘It was wonderful to hear about this church having a baptism!,’ Lynn said.
 
‘And when they opened it, no one could remember how it worked.
 
‘I felt God saying – ‘we need to be ready’.’
 
Lynn said baptisms are a symbol of life change, and of our life together. We are currently being invited to consider where we might we grow from here by new President Ken Benjamin: how about praying for growth through baptisms, for our baptisteries to be open and in regular use?
 
‘I want to encourage people to stand with their leaders and pray over their baptisteries,’ said Lynn.
 
‘Let’s pray that we would be seeing more people come to faith in Christ and see people go through the waters of baptism.
 
‘Pray that we would see more of this, that church who haven’t seen baptisms for several years begin to see more of them.
 
‘Let’s pray that all of our baptisteries across Baptists Together would be open!’
 

Baptist Times, 03/06/2019
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