One Sunday morning I was...
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One Sunday morning I was preparing for a baptism during the service. I had just put the water in the bowl and was placing it in the font when a lady who had been a member of the church all her life came into the sanctuary. She saw that I had just put the water in the bowl, and I guess it got her to wondering for the first time where that water came from. She said to me, "Is that really holy water?"
I thought for a minute about how to answer her. The truth of the matter is that I had gotten the water out of the faucet in the workroom of the church. It came from the city water system just like all our water did.
But what makes something holy? Is it where it comes from? Isn't it rather whether God takes it up and uses it for his purposes? I decided it was the latter, and I said to the woman who asked me whether that was really holy water, "It is now."
That is certainly true of the communion elements as well. They may only come from wheat and grapes, but God uses them to nurture our souls and bodes into eternal life. They are holy.
-- Welborn
I thought for a minute about how to answer her. The truth of the matter is that I had gotten the water out of the faucet in the workroom of the church. It came from the city water system just like all our water did.
But what makes something holy? Is it where it comes from? Isn't it rather whether God takes it up and uses it for his purposes? I decided it was the latter, and I said to the woman who asked me whether that was really holy water, "It is now."
That is certainly true of the communion elements as well. They may only come from wheat and grapes, but God uses them to nurture our souls and bodes into eternal life. They are holy.
-- Welborn
