“Baptismal ministry is to embrace the world of the baptized.”
Rev. Dr. Stephen Bouman, 2019 SCSW LEAD Keynote Address
My experience of ministry has had a baptismal shape to it. Not only have I been called to baptize, but the experience is a kind of dying and rising in itself.
For this reason, I’ve been thinking about this line from Stephen Bouman’s address since my last Sunday as pastor of Orfordville Lutheran Church.