Subject: Was it complete? |
Bible Note: Tim, I wonder if it is accurate to say that baptism is a work that we do. Rather, I think it is something that Christ does to us through his body the Church. Who ever baptised him or her self? If you look at baptism as a grace filled encounter with Christ in and through his Church it seems much less a work of man than a work of Christ. The definition of a scarament I learned as a child was that it was "an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace." I have never thought of baptism or any other sacrament as something we do for or by ourselves, but rather something that Jesus does for us. Emmaus |