If you haven’t heard yet, the Winters family is growing by one. We have our third child due in November of 2018. 
If you know our kids, you know that they don’t have very common names. We have a Cricket Belle and a Tempest Jane. And so naturally with a third child coming into the world, people have been starting to ask, “well, what are you going to name THIS one?” The short answer is that we don’t know yet. We don’t even know if it’s going to be a boy or a girl. C’mon, give us a break.
But one thing that we could name this baby is “Baptized”. After all, it is going to be his or her reality….although I’m not sure if I would have to Baptize the baby early while we were still at the hospital to make the name count. Still, I would greatly enjoy hearing my progeny saying “I’m Baptized” when someone asks his or her name.
Realistically, all of us should answer that way, perhaps even before we say our first name. What’s your name? Baptized Jay Allen Winters.
This coming Sunday is Trinity Sunday and it is the start of a new sermon series that we are calling “My Name is Baptized.” During the series we are going to explore the Trinity, celebrate the Baptism of Abigail Chi, and talk about what it means for us to be Baptized into the Body of Christ by the Triune God. Hopefully at the end of the series, we’ll all be tempted to answer “Baptized” when someone says “So what is your name?”