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Today's Reading: The Small Catechism: Baptism Daily Lectionary: 1 Samuel 15:10-35; Acts 24:24-25:12 [Baptism] works forgiveness of sins, rescues from death and the devil, and gives eternal salvation to all who believe. . . (The Small Catechism: Baptism, pt. 2) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. You probably have Christian friends who belong to a church that doesn't baptize infants. While these fellow Christians have much in common with us, like a high regard for Scripture and the belief that we are saved by grace, they are very far from us and from the historic teaching of the Church, and indeed, from Scripture itself on the matter of the Sacraments. What's more, these differences can get pretty heated. Those who deny God's gift of Baptism to little children may question whether your Baptism really counts, if you were baptized as a child. They may even try and tell you that you need to be baptized for real. It comes to down to a question of what Baptism is and does. Is Baptism my promise to God, or God's promise