Not normally the descriptor...
- simple elements
- accessible
- initiation
Context matters! - dessert - water is life
living water - springs - abundance
MIKVEH
- natural source water, living water
- ritual immersion
- size for full immersion - dimensions of size, volume, 144 eggs
- Spiritual Cleansing - often after life events
Process: to make right
- right with self
- right with others
- right with God
Christian liturgy follows this process/journey
- confession
- peace
- eucharist
Baptism: renewal of vows and covenant
- renew faith
- reconnect community
- reengage ministry
thus:
extravagance of GRACE
- fully included (God shows no partiality)
- fully loved (in all of us, God delights)
- fully encouraged! To live the possibility and potential of serv ice to everyone with whom our souls connect - i.e. everyone.
Baptism of Jesus: celebrates baptism of grace - renewal of ourselves in the extravagance of God's grace.
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