interesting, our megachurch has had several outdoor baptisms at the local lake. one of our church plants is conducting an outdoor baptism at the river for their 3rd anniversary. but i have to admit we do have one of them fancy indoor plumbing pools for those cold wintry days. amazing!

this is so silly, who even cares? Let’s focus on learning to love God and love our neighbor, if we ever get that right, then we can worry about indoor or outdoor baptism!!!

must have been a slow news day for USA Today. pretty stupid, waste of time article.

I say we blame it on the 2 great evils of the day - iPhones & twitter.

“The tradition of submerging someone in a river to wash away their sins began in Europe”

Really?  So John the Baptists ministry was in Europe? 

Willow does large outdoor baptisms once a year in June at the end of their “ministry year” so to speak, while they do indoor baptisms now once a month I believe using a baptistry. (they used to only do them twice a year - once during the cold months indoors where they just “sprinkled” and once outdoors in the summer.) But they were massive in scale. Usually 800 on up. As has always been the case however, even if you’re baptized on stage, you can choose to do it again outside in the lake when that comes around.

What I find interesting - I grew up presbyterian and methodist in traditional churches. Until I went to Willow in my 20s, I never even knew people were baptized in ponds, lakes, etc. and had NEVER heard of an indoor baptistry. That just sounded weird to me! All I knew of baptism was seeing infants being baptized with water touched to their forehead by the minister - nothing more than that, as was I when I was an infant.

We just did 42 outdoor baptisms two weeks ago.  What’s funny is unlike this article, we heard the opposite from a few people..."Why’d we spend money on a baptistery if we’re not going to use it”?  Sometimes you just can’t win. 

Peter,
That’s a great event “Church on the beach"… I’m going to bring this idea to our congregation… I minister in the city and it would be a change of atmosphere to have church on the beach…

one of my mentors Rev. Dr. James Wately have “Church at the Mall” services every Sunday… and it’s a great outreach ministry… They set up a full scale church service…

as to the article… indoor or outdoor… at least they are baptizing...many today have gone away from baptizim period… when we consider many of our ancestors and how they were baptized… we today have become a little sophisicated… when you know who you are and the importance of baptism (our identification with Christ) it won’t matter where you’re baptized at...Jesus died for our sins and the least we could do is go down in some water (even if it’s not the cleanest)…

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So I take it there’s no comment filtering on here

First, take it back Linda, the iPhone and Twitter are invented by Jesus himself!

Second, I think back to the ethiopian eunuch getting baptized by Philip, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?” Acts 8:36. So we have the ability to have indoor pools/spas/etc. Big deal, there’s water lets baptize people that want to proclaim faith in Jesus Christ!