Sawyer's dedication!

Sawyer,
You were dedicated at Jacob's Well on May 4th, 2014.

Mommy, Daddy, and Quinn, along with the rest of our family and friends and church community prayed over you:

Dear Heavenly Father,
Together, we pray the Sawyer's mind will know your wisdom.  His eyes will see Your glory.  His ears will hear Your words.  His mouth will speak Your truth.  His heart will be Jesus' home.  His hands will do Your work.  That his knees would bow only before You, the Lord Our God.  And that his feet would follow You in the way of Jesus all the days of his Life.  Amen.

Baptism and dedication are rites of passage that symbolize our covenant belonging in the body of Christ.  These rite are our means of saying that God created us, pursues us and restores us to the image of Christ.  Because it is a realization of God's work on our behalf, Jacobo's Well stands with the tradition of baptizing only once.  God's covenant does not fade no matter what we do; we are simply called to live into that covenant through repentance and faith.

Sawyer, we choose to have you dedicated so that you could choose to make the outward sign of baptism when you are older, just as John the Baptist baptized Jews as an invitation to repentance and faith.  Jesus, though sinless, is also baptized by John and Baptist.

Matthew 3:13-17

The Baptism of Jesus
¹³ Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. ¹⁴ But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
¹⁵ Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
¹⁶ As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. ¹⁷ And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”