# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2013_S70
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

What they need is the washing, the refreshing of a Savior who has
lived, died, and risen again so that they might have His life now
and forever!
That’s what we have to share!
Your Baptism in Christ marks you as one of His redeemed ones—
one up from the waters of grace to be sent, washed witnesses to
others … to share Him.
To testify of Jesus, who has claimed you as His own …
Who gives you a love that is beyond description …
Who gives you a life that can never die …

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A righteousness that can never be tarnished …
A real peace, a real rest, in a chaotic world …
A joy that is beyond mere happiness …
A hope that endures and never disappoints …
And yes, spiritual resources that can never be exhausted.
We are baptized, washed to witness to that! We are refreshed by
God’s grace to serve others so that they might know Him too.
To that witnessing end, may God bless us all.
Amen!

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