I hope your Easter was wonderful. Laurelton's sunrise service was lovely and our regular worship was joyful including many friends and a baptism. Christ's resurrection is a lot to reflect on, so we get a whole season to do it. I'll be doing lots of planning this week for the weeks ahead, so if there's anything you'd like to hear about in worship, please let me know.
Today's reading is a reflection on Christ's death and resurrection in terms of our baptism. In baptism we're joined to Christ's death and resurrection. Faith and baptism are not just some cultural ritual, they are a matter of life and death. We commit ourselves to Christ and put our trust in him.
blessings on your resurrection journey,
Sam
Romans 6:1-11
What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For whoever has died is freed from sin. 8But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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