Living Our Baptism
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A Relationship Set in Baptism
Baptism (or Christening) is the gift which establishes the possibility of this relationship with Christ in God: “So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation . . . every-thing has become new! All this is from God . . .” (2 Cor.5:17-18). Marked and sealed by God’s Spirit in baptism means more than a minor adjustment in outlook and life – if we genuinely accept responsibility for what we have been given. St. Paul speaks of root and branch change – a new creation!
This Paul sees in the person who is overwhelmed by the love of God in Christ to such an extent that he or she lives now, “no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them” (2 Cor. 5:15). That the once crucified and now risen Lord came through a grave to be with me, so colors reality that whoever glimpses this, then marches to a different drum. In the gift of God in Christ, we have received everything.
