baptism cannonball
Tuesday December 05th 2006, 8:31 am
Filed under: church, humor

ya just gotta love a kid who’s willing to do a surprise cannonball into the baptismal tank…

(ht to neal kloster)


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I saw that last week - could not stop laughing. I could not get it copy/paste in my blog though :(

Comment by Jeff 12.05.06 @ 9:42 am

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welcome to the story 12.05.06 @ 11:44 am

can-openers are better

Comment by Brian Buchanan 12.05.06 @ 12:33 pm

“Spirit filled” church?

Comment by 12.05.06 @ 1:26 pm

THAT was funny! With our baptismal tank, we stand on the outside of the tank. We also have a “seat” inside the tank, so if someone tried that at our church, they’d likely break their neck. But I’ll still have to keep an eye out for some of my students. Ya never know…

Comment by Rob C 12.05.06 @ 1:55 pm

This gave me a way to make my senior pastors concern that I am too big to do baptisms because I will drown the choir a reality.

Thanks

Comment by Friar_Tuck 12.05.06 @ 6:06 pm

Very funny. I know a few people in our youth group that would love to do this. In fact we use to have a baptism at a local water park in connection with a all church picnic several years ago. The current youth pastor wanted to send the kids down the water slide and dunk them when they hit the bottom.

Comment by Mike 12.05.06 @ 8:28 pm

I’m starting a three-week class today called “Don’t Laugh in Church” about joyfulness and this is now my opening video… awesome!

Comment by Isaac 12.06.06 @ 11:48 am

Probably the strongest arguement yet for infant baptism.

Comment by Ginny 12.06.06 @ 12:26 pm

Don’t you just “love” how the pastor is obviously irritated by this? Shouldn’t he be rejoicing? What’s best is he seems so concerned with his bible getting wet, yet he THROWS it away from the baptismal.

Comment by jen }i{ 12.06.06 @ 1:51 pm

Now that’s the way to do it!

Comment by 12.06.06 @ 4:46 pm

we have all thought about it, but he did it

if you have not already seen this. here is a kid doing what i know many of us have joked about doing at some point. tip to marko for this one

Trackback by Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd 12.06.06 @ 6:10 pm

What a great kid! I’m thinking he’ll be an evangelist someday. Where did we get the idea that we had to be sanctimonious about everything all the time, anyway? Be joyful!

Comment by ChurchLady 12.06.06 @ 7:24 pm

Baptism should be a memorable experience for the individual, but seldom is it memorable for the congregation. Great stuff. Thanks, GT

Comment by gary tubb 12.06.06 @ 11:56 pm

Since most of our baptisms happen in the pool of a family in the congregation, I’m establishing a new rule that cannon balls are mandatory. We may have to modify that rule a bit for our beach baptisms, though.

Comment by Steve 12.07.06 @ 12:01 pm

I like how the pastor handled it. The fact is, baptism is a time of publicly professing to the community that you as an individual identify yourself with Christ in his death and resurrection, and you as a church acknowledge that this person has indeed evidenced a regenerate heart as much as can be determined by the church. To say that this is cool or funny is to make a mockery of an ancient sacrament. Did Jesus laughingly cannonball onto the cross? NO!

Comment by Jonathan 12.07.06 @ 12:24 pm

This is hilarious!

pax,
meb

Comment by Mark Bushor 12.07.06 @ 1:06 pm

I want to forward this to some friends, but after being in the delete file, I can’t send it.
Would you please send it to me?
Thanks so much

Comment by Carol 02.08.07 @ 4:11 pm

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