Henri Nouwen Society - Daily Meditation
Saturday September 28, 2013 

 

Baptism, the Way to Community

 

Baptism is more than a way to spiritual freedom.  It also is the way to community.  Baptising a person, whether child or adult, is receiving that person into the community of faith.   Those who are reborn from above through baptism, and are called to live the life of sons and daughters of God, belong together as members of one spiritual family, the living body of Christ.  When we baptise people, we welcome them into this family of God and offer them guidance, support, and formation, as they grow to the full maturity of the Christ-like life.

 

- Henri J. M. Nouwen  

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Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, �1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible �1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.