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"Here's water - why can't I be baptized?" Acts 8:36.

So. There they were, riding a chariot down that dusty desert road, the royal Ethiopian treasurer (a eunuch) and his driver. The Ethiopian had worshiped in Jerusalem lately, now headed back home. The charioteer drove, the treasurer sat and read his Bible out loud. The passage concerned a humiliated man being killed unjustly. God prompted the prophet Philip to join the chariot and explain the reading. With the Ethiopian's invitation, Philip stepped aboard, sat down with the official, and they rode along together. Philip said that Scripture spoke of Jesus, and told the gospel news about Jesus. Responding, the Ethiopian wanted to be baptized. So. They went down into the water (the chariot had stopped at a pool, right?), Philip baptized him, and then they came up out of the water. This man confessing right now to the story of Jesus - God qualified him for baptism. A new culture, the household of faith, continues growing in Christ.

We get together with a brother or sister today and remember the gospel by which we are saved. And, together, we continue faith's walk joyful in thanksgiving to God, the qualifier of souls.