So if you have been reading my posts on the completing him challenge than you know that when David and I first met he was a "baby" christian. He had grown up going to church and remembered being baptized around the age of 12 and he thought that growing up that was enough. Even though he would now tell the story that he only got baptized because other people were and he thought it was the thing to do.
So in the earliest months of our dating it was fun to be able to pull out and search our bibles together. About a month after we began dating he went home for a week for spring break and we would talk for 6 or 7 hours on the phone some nights. I would be looking through concordances and bible dictionaries and just giving him scripture after scripture to help answer questions that he had. It was fun to watch him grow and at the same time I was growing and we were growing in our relationship with each other through Christ.
We talking many times he told me the story of why he had been baptized when he was younger and we talked about him doing it again. Not because it would save him or because he needed to to get to heaven but to do it out of obedience and as a way of letting others know about a decision he had made in his life.
Christmas of 2008 he got baptized at our church in Dollar Bay, MI.
Giving testimony about why he wanted to be baptized.
Trying to figure out how it was going to work. Baptisms aren't made for people who are 6'6"
Under he goes
Back up
Coming back one last comment!
For today's what have we gotten away from since our dating days. Searching through the Bible together. We have our own quiet times and we discuss the bible and sermons or Sunday school occasionally. It used to be a lot more frequent than it is now. My goal is to get back into the word together more often. This was a goal of mine before the I even came across this challenge. I was search for a study for us to do together and found that a book(a sacred marriage) we had received for Christmas had a devotional to go along with it. So I ordered the book and now I am waiting for it to arrive it has been three weeks and was supposed to get here by today so we shall see. I am super excited to start it with David.
And if you are interested in watching it on video here it is! Thanks to a great friend of ours who had her video camera with her that day!
ok...so the video was supposed to go here but after multiple times of trying to upload it I cant get it to work. So its not here.
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