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Baptism/Initiation Links
By Water and the Spirit: A United Methodist Understanding of Baptism This is the official
United Methodist interpretive statement on Baptism adopted by the 1996 General Conference.
For a download version of BWAS with an internally hyperlinked table of contents and index
click
here. There is a print study edition at available from Cokesbury or Upper Room Books. For a
Spanish language text go to
Por el agua y el espíritu: Un entendimiento metodista unido sobre
el bautismo (pdf)

The Use of the Means of Grace: A Statement on the Practice of Word and Sacrament
Adopted for guidance and practice by the Fifth Biennial Churchwide Assembly
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, August 19, 1997. An excellent statement on the
service of Word and Table,
Baptism, and their relationship to Christian mission.

The North American Association for the Catechumenate seeks to promote and nurture the
catechumenal process in order that the whole faith community might fulfill Christ's commission
to make disciples, baptizing and teaching all peoples.
NAAC seeks:

The North American Forum on the Catechumenate is an International Network of Pastoral
Ministers, Liturgists, Catechists, and Theologians. Since 1981 the Forum has united and
supported pastoral ministers in the U.S., Canada, and beyond.