{"id":7228,"date":"2024-08-05T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","slug":"baptizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7228","title":{"rendered":"BAPTIZER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started as pastor of Sardinia Baptist Church about a year and a half ago. I am proud to call myself American Baptist.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it wasn&#8217;t until today that I became a <b><i>baptizer<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning I had the privilege of baptizing a sweet father and his young son. It was the son who had made the first step a few weeks back &#8211; and I was thrilled to see dad join him in coming forward to seek baptism.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The joy I felt in being a part of this morning&#8217;s sacrament caught me off guard. Nothing could have brought me down.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long ago I had noticed in the Apostle Paul&#8217;s writing a pronounced warmth he seemed to feel toward the individuals he had baptized as he went planting churches. After this morning, I can see that there is a certain connection which I feel toward Jason and Braden.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A responsibility too, I suppose. I truly want to see them grow in their faith.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And to cap the morning off perfectly &#8211; two more individuals came forward seeking baptism for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God is at work at Sardinia Baptist.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I pray I get a whole lot more experience in baptizing new brothers and sisters in the coming months and years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started as pastor of Sardinia Baptist Church about a year and a half ago. I am proud to call myself American Baptist.\u00a0 But it wasn&#8217;t until today that I became a baptizer.\u00a0 This morning I had the privilege of baptizing a sweet father and his young son. It was the son who had made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7229,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}