Way back in the spring of 2013, Grace was riding home from school and she announced to John that she was going to heaven. He asked her how she knew that and she said "because during naptime, I turned from my yucky sins and followed Jesus." We were super excited and super cautious because she was so young. We just kept the conversation going for the next few months to make sure that she truly understood repentance and salvation. Anytime that salvation would come up, Grace would always say that she was a Christian because she asked Jesus into her heart during naptime. Finally, in the fall, after much prayer, we had a peace and confidence that she did actually understand salvation and she made a profession of faith one Sunday morning. The next step was baptism. Since our church is meeting in a community center right now, we don't have a baptismal. We baptize in a horse trough outside. After waiting for warm and dry weather, Grace was finally able to be baptized!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
{John 3:16}
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
{John 3:17}
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. {Romans 6:4}
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
{2 Corinthians 5:17}
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