Hello everyone!
I was baptized at the age of 12. Actually all 4 of us in my family were baptized the same day. Long story short, my reasons for getting baptized back then were split between genuinely wanting to take that step, and simply doing it since I didn't want to be the only person in my family who was not yet baptized. Anyway, I finally told my family about my feelings and I remember my father reading to me the parable of the sheep and the goats. I do not remember very much about that night other than at one point it struck with me so hard that I bawled my eyes out and wailed: "I don't wanna be a goat!"
Honestly, at that moment I was scared I did the wrong thing in getting baptized when I did; however, it seems it was meant to be because I needed to hear that message that struck me so hard that one night. It makes me chuckle to think back on that time now. I'll never forget it, and to this day it's one of my favorite passages in the Bible.
Does anyone else love this passage like I do?
Jenn
I was baptized at the age of 12. Actually all 4 of us in my family were baptized the same day. Long story short, my reasons for getting baptized back then were split between genuinely wanting to take that step, and simply doing it since I didn't want to be the only person in my family who was not yet baptized. Anyway, I finally told my family about my feelings and I remember my father reading to me the parable of the sheep and the goats. I do not remember very much about that night other than at one point it struck with me so hard that I bawled my eyes out and wailed: "I don't wanna be a goat!"
Honestly, at that moment I was scared I did the wrong thing in getting baptized when I did; however, it seems it was meant to be because I needed to hear that message that struck me so hard that one night. It makes me chuckle to think back on that time now. I'll never forget it, and to this day it's one of my favorite passages in the Bible.
Does anyone else love this passage like I do?
Jenn