Unless becoming the water of baptism is an authentic self understanding of the assembly, all attempts to offer parties and rehearsals and mentors will be corrupted and viewed as a calculation, a mere marketing ploy. Being the water of baptism, a community cannot but help to wash over a new family. It does so with no expectation of a return or an outcome so mundane as a pledge or an attending dues paying member of the club. It offers itself as gift and sign. It spends itself, like the Kingdom, recklessly. Most crucially, it is a wideness across the community that offers such mercy much rather than the professionally assigned incumbents. The whole Laos both communicate and enact this presence and encounter.
pouring water
Creating a People Who Breathe Underwater
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