Most of you know I was baptized in February as I joined my church family (we’re baptist by the way). This was such an awesome experience in my life because it was at a time where I really began to understand the gift God gave me so many years ago, salvation. I’m all about a little inter-denominational humor, but as a new baptist I really took offense to what a pastor (and friend) said in a sermon concerning baptism.

To say that my “re-baptism” is an act that discredits what God has done in my life cuts really deep. It’s as if to say that I came to this decision on my own and I came to the wrong decision. It says that I did not seek the counsel of Godly men and that I did not make myself receptive to the prompting of the Spirit. It says that I am not acting in obedience to God’s will for me thus making me disobedient. You may think I’m reading too much into this, but when someone says that I did not “need” to be baptized again, this is what they are saying, as if they can speak on God’s behalf.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not angry, just hurt and frustrated. A church that claims to be so open and tolerant of others just slapped me in the face for what I believe. I can chose to be angry and hold a grudge or I can accept that we live in a fallen world and even the Church (universal) is not exempt from the effects of the fall.