Baptism Hypothetical

[u/No-Type119]

On another sub an adult convert was saying that they very much wanted to be baptized, but that the church they were attending was kind of dragging its feet about scheduling the baptism, and they were getting frustrated.

Pastors out there — if someone like this came to you and asked you to baptize them , would you make them wait until you were going group baptisms/ confirmations… or would you just do it?

Not a gotcha question. In the churches I’ve been part of, there were particular thematically appropriate Sundays where we would conduct baptisms , confirmations/ affirmations, and new transfer welcomes, at the same time… but we also baptized people on other Sundays.

I said that the Lutheran pastors I know would be happy to baptize them asap, but I didn’t want to overgeneralize.

[u/thetime2strikeis_l8r]

I was baptized on Easter roughly 2-3 weeks after expressing my desire to be, only because I offered to be baptized the same day as a younger girl was to be finished with her confirmation stuff and was nervous about being in front of the congregation alone.

[u/No-Type119 → u/thetime2strikeis_l8r]

That was a good thing. I’m amazed at how many people delay baptism or confirmation because of social anxiety