Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Great question...

I found this at Sibboleth. Fascinating to think about...

Pastoral Emergency?
So, what do you do if you're the senior minister, sitting there watching an associate minister do a baptism, and observe the following transpire: The water is sprinkled over the baby's head; the assoc. minister says, "I baptize you in the name of the Father ..." The baby's binky falls out. The minister says, "whoops," bends down to retrieve the binky, returns it to the baby's parents, and then prays for the baby?I noticed that the trinitarian baptismal formula wasn't completed. A friend thought it was a pretty big deal that the baby didn't get either a trinitarian baptism or, at very least, a baptism into the name of Christ. Poor little bugger! If you were the senior minister, would you have gone up and nudged your associate to finish the thing off "properly"?


What would you do?

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Blogger Matthew said...

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7:31 PM  
Blogger J. R. Daniel Kirk said...

It's still there:

http://sibboleth.blogspot.com/2005/03/pastoral-emergency.html

6:18 AM  

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