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Process Explanation Essay: Baptism

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Baptism
By. Davon Pargeon B-9

Baptism means different things to many people in the different branches in Christianity. Jesus even got a baptism by John. It can range from a spiritual meaning to a new lease on life to others. In the Evangelical Free Church religion baptism is done to show that you believe, will follow, and accept Jesus and God. The origins of baptism can be found in the bible. The way the story goes is Jesus Christ had John the Baptist do a baptism on him in a river. This is how the first baptism in Christianity happened. As time went Christianity spread into many branches. Each branch has different rules and rituals for baptism. One day during in youth church all of us where talking about the lesson at hand. Then they got on the subject of someone going through the work to be baptized. They asked me if I had been. I had no clue at all. So when church was out; I asked my mom if I had been. She had no clue either. So we thought a while ,and found out that I had been sprinkled when I was a baby. We thought it was a indoctrination to the church. So my mom talks to the pastor about it ,and he says it was a baptism. But my mom thought it was based on my decision. An since I was to young to make my decision then; we decide to get a baptism done for me. My mom had talked to a friend at her work that …show more content…

This was my first time meeting him. So once we talked a little bit more I got comfortable around him. He ask me a lot of questions. I guess this was so he could have idea if I was serious about this. He gave me a little book ,and then told me to read a section and answer questions. All the questions were passages from the bible dealing with baptism. This was very neat to me. An some of the passages dealt with the meaning of all of it. We went back and we talked about the work I had done ,and what all this meant to me. Basically this went back and forth for a while until I had completed the

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