A Toast To The New Year and All It's Mysteries...

So this weekend I went to Gatlinburg with my youth group. With the mix of Family Force 5, Shane and Shane, Matt McCoy, an illusionist, a comedian, a great speaker, great classes, and amazing fellowship with friends proved TCTC to be a great trip. I had a great time and grew even closer to my God.

We were debriefing Saturday night, going around sharing how God spoke to us that day when someone ended up confessing that they think they were just saved that day. We prayed over him and everyone went to bed. Well, not really. Some of the guys stayed up in my room talking about baptism. Some how it turned into a debate over whether or not baptism is necessary in order to inherit The Kingdom.

The debate threw me at first cause I had never really thought about how important it really is. I was raised in the church and was baptized at a very young age. An age in which you don't really give much thought about how important it is cause you are just doing it because you think it is the right thing to do. I decided by the end that it is very important that you do get baptized.

I think that it is a step that you take during the act of repentance. It is one of the final steps you take in saying "Here I am father, clean of my past and ready for my future" of course the last step is living your life fully devoted to Jesus.

I baptize with water those who repent of their sins and turn to God. -Matthew 3:11

That is all I need to know to make my decision. Baptism is (in my eyes) a necessary step in becoming a saved christian. I don't know about all of the hypothetical "what if" scenarios, but then again that judgement or any judgement for that matter isn't up to me.