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Dunk Sunday Tue, Jul 13th
Just three months after launching The Painted Door, we had the great honor and privilege to baptize a number of people during a Sunday service. Few things are greater cause for celebration than publicly dunking people who have professed faith in Jesus. Baptism is all about testifying to the goodness of God, and three of our people did just that, taking the microphone to share their stories of conversion.
These are the kind of stories we came to Chicago to hear and participate in – stories of grace and hope and new life in Christ. It’s remarkable to see the many different paths God uses to draw people to himself. From a moralistic Bible-belter stuck in dead religion to a straight-edge death-metal fan who hated Christians to an apathetic wanderer from a broken home, God saves sinners.
We also got to watch a father baptize his 8-year-old believing son – perhaps the greatest evidence of God’s grace that he would rescue someone from a life of folly and sin before they’ve had the chance to go there. I pray that all my kids would be blessed with such boring testimonies, embracing the gospel without having to endure the trials and hardships that a stubborn type like me needed to soften my heart 10 years ago.
Any more, all I need to go absolutely gooey is to see God at work in the lives of others. We all got to see that at The Painted Door’s first ever dunk Sunday. We’re praying and giving our lives to see many more such days. Well worth it – easily.
