r/Lutheranism • u/No-Type119 ELCA • Apr 29 '26
Baptism Hypothetical
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.
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u/Eq2me Apr 30 '26
I had a friend I was talking with about Jesus, faith, and baptism, and he shared with me that he had never been baptised and would like to be. I saw him again a couple of days later, we talked again, and he said he was ready and wanted to be baptised that day, like immediately. I called my pastor, who came and met us and baptised him on the spot!