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The Didache continued:
II.
CHURCH ORDER AND PRACTICE
Chapter 7 “Baptism”
Let’s talk a little about the practice of baptism. Here’s how you should carry this out:
First, go over all this teaching and make sure the person being baptized is in agreement with it. Find some running water and immerse the person in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If you can’t find any streams or rivers, then find some other place where there is enough water. It can be cold or warm, it doesn’t matter.
But, if you can’t find sufficient water to immerse a person in, then pour water on their head, three times; in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Fasting would put the person doing the baptizing, and the person being baptized in the right spiritual frame of mind. It’s not a bad idea for anyone who’s able to fast to fast before the ceremony. Really, the one being baptized should fast, even for a day or two leading up to this event.
Chapter 8 “Fasting and Prayer”
And when you do fast, don’t do it anything like the religious play actors out there. They’re known for fasting on Mondays and Thursdays, so it would be better if you fast on Wednesday and Saturday (in preparation for Sunday).
And don’t pray like those windbags either. Instead, pray like Jesus taught us in His Good News to us. Here’s how you should pray:
“Our Father who is in heaven, help us live in awe of Your name.
Let Your authority be the supreme rule here,
Set up Your good plan here on earth, the same way things are good in heaven.
Provide for every meal we eat, to keep us going.
You have forgiven all the ways we betrayed You, help us to treat others the same way.
Keep us safe from our own will and from our Enemy’s lies, keep us away from everything that isn’t good like You.
You call all the shots, You have total control,
And Your beauty never, ever ends.
All this I agree to as Truth!”
It would be a good practice to pray on these lines three times a day, morning, noon and night.
CHURCH ORDER AND PRACTICE
Chapter 7 “Baptism”
Let’s talk a little about the practice of baptism. Here’s how you should carry this out:
First, go over all this teaching and make sure the person being baptized is in agreement with it. Find some running water and immerse the person in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If you can’t find any streams or rivers, then find some other place where there is enough water. It can be cold or warm, it doesn’t matter.
But, if you can’t find sufficient water to immerse a person in, then pour water on their head, three times; in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Fasting would put the person doing the baptizing, and the person being baptized in the right spiritual frame of mind. It’s not a bad idea for anyone who’s able to fast to fast before the ceremony. Really, the one being baptized should fast, even for a day or two leading up to this event.
Chapter 8 “Fasting and Prayer”
And when you do fast, don’t do it anything like the religious play actors out there. They’re known for fasting on Mondays and Thursdays, so it would be better if you fast on Wednesday and Saturday (in preparation for Sunday).
And don’t pray like those windbags either. Instead, pray like Jesus taught us in His Good News to us. Here’s how you should pray:
“Our Father who is in heaven, help us live in awe of Your name.
Let Your authority be the supreme rule here,
Set up Your good plan here on earth, the same way things are good in heaven.
Provide for every meal we eat, to keep us going.
You have forgiven all the ways we betrayed You, help us to treat others the same way.
Keep us safe from our own will and from our Enemy’s lies, keep us away from everything that isn’t good like You.
You call all the shots, You have total control,
And Your beauty never, ever ends.
All this I agree to as Truth!”
It would be a good practice to pray on these lines three times a day, morning, noon and night.
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