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True confession: Clergy love telling liturgical blooper stories.\u00a0 There are a lot of motives for this practice.\u00a0 Some of it involves making mental notes of what to avoid.\u00a0 Some of it is just about the quirky, humorous nature of it all.\u00a0 And some of it is probably all about the relief at having managed to avoid making at least some of the mistakes that are possible.<\/p>\n
My personal favorite, which I\u2019ve told some of you about, was the mistake that a colleague of mine made years ago.\u00a0 As you know, I was originally ordained in the Methodist Church and early in my ministry I had a female colleague who was asked to baptize an adult male.\u00a0 United Methodist polity provided for immersion and, at her parishioner\u2019s request, Debbie sought out a baptismal font to use.<\/p>\n
But as the day approached, the mechanics of getting this much larger man out of the water began to play on her nerves.\u00a0 Forgetting about the buoyance of any body in water, eventually, the mechanics were all she could think about.\u00a0 When the day came, she waded into the water, put her arm behind the man, placed a cloth across his nose, and \u2013 as she lowered him into the water, declared, \u201cDrink ye all of this!\u201d<\/p>\n
The baptism of Jesus isn\u2019t a liturgical blooper, but it is theological puzzler.\u00a0 Why would the perfect Son of God ask John to baptize him?\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly not because he had sinned or because he wasn\u2019t sold out to the work of God in his life.\u00a0 So, what is it?<\/p>\n
In trying to answer that puzzle, I have thought a lot about bridges as a metaphor for what is going on here.\u00a0 There are many kinds of bridges. There are bridges that go somewhere, like the Golden Gate or the Brooklyn Bridge.\u00a0 There are bridges to nowhere.\u00a0 There are also bridges that go somewhere, but it\u2019s a moment-to-moment thing whether we will get anywhere.\u00a0 Mother Natalie and I crossed a bridge near the southwestern corner of Costa Rica that looked like it was built from the scrap lumber my father used to keep in his workshop and I remember thinking that the only confirmation that it was safe to cross was the truck immediately ahead of us.<\/p>\n
But the reason I got a bit stuck on bridges is this:\u00a0 Our Gospel text has been read at least three ways in over two thousand years.<\/p>\n
Some have described the Baptism of Jesus as an act of modeling.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m doing this. \u00a0You should too.\u00a0 Follow me.\u00a0 Get baptized.\u201d<\/p>\n
A second approach to the story argues that the Baptism of Jesus is the moment in which the divine authority of Jesus is made public.\u00a0 \u201cThis is my beloved, Son.\u201d\u00a0 Those are the words that figure prominently in that interpretation of the story.\u00a0 Interpreters argue that, before those words, Jesus may have been just anybody, but with that word from heaven, it was clear that things were different.<\/p>\n
But<\/em> the longer the church reflected on the story, the more a third interpretation became important \u2013 one that didn\u2019t necessarily preclude the other two \u2014 but went far beyond it.\u00a0 Sitting with the words of the Gospel story, the early church fathers noted that the baptism of Jesus was accompanied by the other members of the Trinity: the Holy Spirit in the form of the descending dove and the Father in the words heard from heaven.<\/p>\nThey noted that in being baptized Jesus didn\u2019t just model baptism but blessed the water and the body by being baptized.\u00a0 In other words, by being baptized, they also concluded that Jesus had built the bridge from earth to heaven, making it possible for every child of God to make the same journey.<\/p>\n
Now that\u2019s a completely different kind of bridge!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a bridge that goes somewhere, but it\u2019s also a bridge that changes everything and everywhere you have ever been.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bridge that can only make a difference if you take it.\u00a0 And it\u2019s a one-way bridge.<\/p>\n
Go back over it to where you started, and it makes no difference that you ever made the trip.\u00a0 Un-see what your baptism urges you to see about God, about yourself, about what matters, about the world around you, and you become someone who learned nothing from your travels.<\/p>\n
The other two interpretations may have something to tell us.\u00a0 But this third insight into the baptism of Jesus is why it is a major feast day in the life of the church.\u00a0 It marks a turning point in the history of the world, in the spiritual fortunes of humankind, and in our relationship with God.<\/p>\n
But let me be as concrete as possible and make a few observations about how this insight changes the way that we think about our baptism:<\/p>\n
One, baptism isn\u2019t magic, it\u2019s the work of God.<\/em><\/p>\nI have lost track of the number of people who haven\u2019t been to church in \u201cdonkey\u2019s years\u201d and don\u2019t plan to go ever again, but want their little bundle baptized.\u00a0 Often you can\u2019t even tell if the parents really even believe anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if they think having their child baptized is like wrapping a necklace of garlic around their baby\u2019s neck to ward off vampires.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t just superstitious and, therefore, pointless.\u00a0 It\u2019s dangerously misleading.<\/p>\n
Of course, God isn\u2019t going to leave an innocent child to fend for itself, if his or her parents fail to have their child baptized.\u00a0 But God isn\u2019t into magic tricks either.<\/p>\n
God is in the business of building a bridge from a world shaped by our own, narrow, materialistic, and self-serving perspective to the Kingdom of God \u2013 a place where everything, every value, every commitment is turned toward God.\u00a0 And getting a baby baptized because a grandmother insists on it or because parents suddenly think that a little hocus-pocus is in order doesn\u2019t begin to comprehend what God is seeking to accomplish by taking us over the bridge of baptism.<\/p>\n
To have your baby baptized this way is like taking it out on the bridge and having a picture taken without ever going over to the other side and then pasting it into a scrapbook that the child might go back and see in 60 years, without ever really making the trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuh,\u201d the child thinks, I wonder what was on the other side.\u201d\u00a0 There really isn\u2019t any point.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s more likely to alienate a child from God, than anything else.<\/p>\n
And that leads me to a second point:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nFor baptism to matter, you need to cooperate with God\u2019s work in you.<\/em><\/p>\nThere have been some really silly debates in the history of the church over whether God saves us because we respond in faith to God, or God saves us by having us baptized.<\/p>\n
Only in the modern world, would anyone think that way.<\/p>\n
The ancient church believed that there was no reason to be baptized if you don\u2019t believe and no reason not to be baptized if you do.\u00a0 Only a fraud, a hypocrite, or an imposter would try to have one without the other.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why we baptize infants, but we also practice confirmation as a sacrament.\u00a0 Historically, confirmation has been associated with the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the perfection of our baptism, and a sign of our cooperation with the work of God in us.\u00a0 That\u2019s also why taking communion is usually treated as the very next thing you do after you are confirmed.<\/p>\n
Together, the three sacraments are signs of our cooperation with the work of God\u2019s grace.\u00a0 We turn our back on the way that the world does business.\u00a0 We stop evaluating our lives and our neighbors the way that the world tends to evaluate and treat people; and we set out on a quest to find out just how different our lives can be with God\u2019s help.<\/p>\n
Maybe we end up a bit freer than we once were.\u00a0 Maybe we are more courageous or loving.\u00a0 Maybe we begin to spend our time and energy on things that matter to God, instead of things that mattered only to our shrunken godless selves before we were baptized.\u00a0 Maybe our awareness of God\u2019s presence deepens.\u00a0 A lot of what happens depends on where we start the journey and how closely we listen to the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
But this much is certain: If we take the trip over the bridge seriously, we will never see God, ourselves, our neighbors or our world in the same way again.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why the trip over the baptismal bridge is a one-way journey.\u00a0 God\u2019s baptismal bridge isn\u2019t for tourists.\u00a0 It\u2019s for people on a journey into the love of God that never ends.<\/p>\n
Three, the church \u2014 as the body of Christ \u2014 is where you first find yourself on the other side of the bridge.<\/em><\/p>\nFor the most part, the world talks about the church as a collection of activities: Things we do at church with one another and for others.<\/p>\n
There is nothing wrong these things, per se, <\/em>but when people think of the church as a place where the reason we gather is to do good things, they have it completely wrong.<\/p>\nThe church is not a collection of do-gooders.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t a social club or a book club or a collection of liturgical and musical artists.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t a center for political activism.<\/p>\n
The church is the living, breathing body of Christ that embraces and enfolds us on the other side of the baptismal bridge. \u00a0The start of something new: a new way of being, a new way of living.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why when that body gathers together to receive the Eucharist, you ought to hear the universe hum with the unbridled power of God and, as Martin Luther suggested, you ought to hear the gates of hell groan and splinter.<\/p>\n
So, the truth is, we do a lot of good things, but we do them for reasons that people can\u2019t comprehend without crossing that bridge.\u00a0 We have discovered that we were made to live for God.\u00a0 We discover that we were made to live in connection with one another through God; and we discover that we were meant to live as if we were flesh and bone of the same body.\u00a0 That\u2019s why the baptismal liturgy not only asks questions of the candidate\u2019s sponsors but asks the church to pledge itself to care for the person who is baptized.<\/p>\n
Understood in that way, it becomes clear that the baptism of Jesus is not a puzzle, but a promise \u2013 not a ritual but a new beginning.\u00a0 My prayer this day is that having crossed the bridge, you will journey on into the love of God.<\/p>\n
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