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Re-Discovering Our Baptism Re-Discovering Our Baptism H. Dane Sherrard It all began with Mrs. MacFarlane. I had just conducted morning worship at a super wee church in one of the tougher areas of Glasgow, a church at which I was serving as Interim Moderator. I was present at worship that morning because, following the service, I was to chair the Stated Annual Meeting of the congregation. I stood at the door and shook hands with all the folk as they came out of church, some to disappear into the community, most, I was glad to see, going into the hall where the meeting would shortly start. Quickly I went back into the sanctuary to collect my notes and as I did I was accosted by a woman in her forties, a woman I had never seen before but who was clearly waiting for me until everyone else had left so that she could say her piece. It took me all my time to persuade her to stop talking long enough to sit her down, and it was an effort to break into what she wanted to say to introduce myself and to learn that she was Mrs. MacFarlane. All she was interested in was whether I would 'do her wee one for her', whether I would 'christen her wean.' As I sat and made appropriate noises her story tumbled from her lips­ the-'wean' in question was not her daughter but her grand-daughter, the result of a chance encounter between her daughter and a ne'er-do­ well who was now out of her life and behind bars. Her daughter was staying with her, relying on her for everything- she wasn't interested in Church or baptism, but Mrs. MacFarlane had made it clear that any grand-daughter of hers would be brought to the font and 'christened' and that would be the end of the matter - but now someone had suggested to her that she wouldn't be welcome. Just because she didn't come to Church herself, just because she wasn't a member. What was I going to do about it? That was what she wanted to know - and I suspect that all ministers have all been there. In the situation I don't know how anyone could not have responded to such a request - and how much both spoken and unspoken was T Theolo.'(y •n Scotland IIi'\ ;,~- -, page 21 encompassed within the request itself, which at its heart held that this baby born into the most difficult of situations, illegitimate by parentage, would be legitimised by being accepted by God and that life would change for her and her family as a result; and that is exactly what happened. Not only her life- but mine as well, for having taken this experience and examined it in a Ministry Experience report as part of my course at Princeton I realised that baptism was climbing my agenda of interests and would now become the centre-piece of my final thesis. But that's to get ahead of myself. For my ministry experience report I struggled with the Church of Scotland regulations regarding baptism and how they had changed between the early sixties and today; I thought long and hard about the differing attitudes which congregations had towards the baptising of children from the parish whose parents were not within the membership ofthe congregation; I thought through the debate about adult versus infant baptism and I read several glorious books: Wesley Carr's Brief Encounters: Pastoral Ministry through the Occasional Offices1 written in 1985 but having lots to say to my 2 situation, and David Hamilton's Through the Waters , written three years later with real insight into what Baptism is really all about, and many more - one of the best parts of this study programme was the reading it liberated me to engage in. And of course I studied Scripture and listened as several passages spoke to me about Mrs. MacFarlane: and after the pictures of mothers bringing their children to God, one day I found myself in front of the well-known passage from John's Gospel chapter three: Jesus answered (Nicodemus), "/am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born again (or from above). How can a grown man be born again?" Nicodemus asked. "He certainly cannot enter his mothers womb and be born a second time!" In the passage above I have added the translation of the word 'anothen' as' 'from above' following the Jerusalem Bible. This is Jesus' baptism ":""'Theology •n Scotland {_J,:'r page 22 of water and the Spirit, and I believe recalls the image of the dove descending at his baptism in the Jordan. Baptism is the sign of a totally new beginning in Jesus, such a new beginning that the only way of describing it is by comparing it with a re-birth. An inscription on a font from the fifth century illuminated this for me: Here a people of godly race are born for heaven; the Spirit gives them life in the fertile waters. The Church-Mother, in these waves, bears her children like virginal fruit she has conceived by the Holy Spirit Through baptism we are born into the Church; we become Jesus-people - even to having our human mother and Spirit father - notice what this picture is saying: we don't choose to be born, it is something that happens to us. We are given this new beginning through God's grace. It's not something we can earn or deserve or something which we can claim because we can stand and confess our faith. It is a gift which God offers to us unconditionally through his love, and through his initiative in sending his Son to our world. Mrs. MacFarlane brought her grand-daughter to receive this new birth, to be born into the community of Easter, and it seemed to me that rather than the great responsibility of faith and prior response being placed on Mrs. MacFarlane, the wonder of baptism is that it is a sacrament of God's grace, goodness and love to us all, his undeserving children. Mrs. MacFarlane may not have known what she was doing, but she knew that God had given her a grand-daughter and it is God who led her to Church on that particular morning to seek baptism. That child was different from that moment on because she belonged to the community of the Church. Now in the Church she must be taught to treasure her baptism. Now in the Church she must be taught to grow in faith and to become a loyal and devoted disciple of Jesus - but through God's decisive action, she was already a child for whom Christ died. The Church had claimed her as one of its own and has given her the identity of a daughter of God. ~Theology><\ Scotland \ 1"-' page 23 The faith which is declared at baptism is not the faith of the parents or grand-parent, it is the faith of the Church represented by the local congregation. But there is a requirement from the parents, too: they must want to share with the Church in the Christian up-bringing and nurture of their child. They must desire the child to grow up learning to love God as a part of the community of the Church. So many parents understand this instinctively when they bring a child for baptism and, almost before anything else is said, they follow up by saying, "And I want him to come to Sunday School." So my journey through baptism had led me to the conclusion that it was appropriate for the Church to offer Mrs. MacFarlane baptism for her granddaughter. But more followed from this, for my journey helped me to see that baptism is not the event of a moment in time, but is a moment which we carry though the whole of our lives. In offering baptism to that child, the Church was saying to her, "Here in God's family you find your identity. Here you belong. Here, with us, your discipleship will develop, and in God's strength we will love you, for through God's love we have been born into a community which is for ever new, the community which lives as an anticipation of all that will one day be; a community fed and nurtured by God's Holy Spirit and by the love which each one of us shares with each other; a community made possible through Jesus' incarnation, baptism and resurrection which we celebrate each time we come together. Let me underline a final realisation that this exercise thrust upon me. The World Council of Churches document Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry 3 discusses the problem caused in the eyes of those who practise believer's baptism by those who they believe are not rigorous enough in the faith they expect from those who bring infants for baptism. My awakening understanding is that the rigour is required not in looking deeply at the faith of the parents (yes, we need their commitment to work with the Church) but in looking at the faith of the congregation. Baptism and faith come from God. We cannot respond to him until he first shows himself to us. Baptism starts our ~Theology '" Scotland , -~~ \ page 24 journey and incorporates us into his risen community and I am sure he has a special place in his community for Mrs. MacFarlane's little granddaughter. Having completed my ministry experience report (the final one of six which made up part of our course) and completed the third Princeton workshop thoughts turned to my thesis.
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