Our Baptismal Covenant

I'll soon be preaching again - July 25. The object of my sermon is to focus on baptism as something communal. My scripture focus that day is a passage on Colossians that Paul writes to the Church at Colossae but a further passage from Genesis about the command to move on and not look back at the foreboding Sodom and Gomorrah. Paul outlines misbehavior and implies a moving on. Through our baptism we are raised with Christ. Through this coinciding resurrection, Christ's cosmic act becomes real and we're called to life anew and told not to look back. Paul's words weren't finger pointing at individuals: it was to a group. It's the promise and goals to those people that we're called to share as Christians - it's our baptismal covenant.