The following originally appeared as part of "Rooted and Established in Love—Week 9: The Giving Tree."
Remembering Your Baptism
Friends, we are baptized people. God has chosen and named us, and we respond with the faith he alone gives. But we respond. We have to do something. We have to get out of the boat if we want to walk on water. We have to live lives worthy of the grace we’ve been given. So let’s together affirm what God makes possible. I’ll ask a series of questions, and you’ll answer all together with a collective “I do!”
[Leader asks a series of questions that resonate with themes that may be present in the sermon. Supplement this list with your own questions.]
Do you trust in God’s gracious promises, signed and sealed to you in your baptism?
Do you believe that God, who always makes the first step toward us in love, has planted you by streams of water and calls you to bear fruit?
Do you turn your back on evil and turn toward God and God’s law as a gracious guide for your life?
Do you confess Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, as the one who watches over us and continually calls us back to the living waters?
Finally, have you decided, by God’s grace, to choose the path of righteousness, turning away from all the wicked things that lead to destruction?
Song of Response
“I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” Anonymous
