Last night, our Man Group ended in a very unique way . . . we had a baptism. By the end of the night last night, Tanner Shade decided he was ready right then and there to hop in the water. Looking back, his experience and even his answers to our questions in small group mirrored the message in Acts 8:26-38.
Acts 8:26-38
Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture:
“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before the shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
Who can speak of his descendants?
For his life was taken from the earth.”
The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?” And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.
That is awesome Tanner! You are the man for, one, making that decision publicly with your small group, and two, having the strength to say I want to be baptized tonight! I’m proud of you man.
awesome!