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“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” 1 John 3 – 1

Lead Pastor Timothy Brassell and wife, Donna Brassell

We are New Life Fellowship, a congregation of Grace Communion International. We are a diverse group of people from all over the Baltimore, Maryland area who embrace the Good News that, in Jesus, all of humanity is included in the life of the Triune God – Father, Son, and Spirit! Ephesians 1: 3-6! We believe in the Triune God, Father, Son and Spirit, and that this God created, reconciled and embraced the world in Jesus Christ, as it was eternally purposed.

At New Life Fellowship we believe that everyone, including YOU, has been reconciled to God in Jesus Christ! This means you already have a relationship with God, in and through Jesus, and that God the Trinity Loves you, Likes you, and has fulfilled His plan for you to be His Adopted child forever. In fact, Triune God has revealed in Jesus Christ that He loves each of us, and all of us, MORE than He loves himself! Phil 2:3!

“I am a pastor, but only an Under-Pastor, participating with Christ in HIS Pastoring of His Church.” 

– Pastor Timothy Brassell

Shaped By The Good News Of The Gospel

A Quote Pointing You To JESUS CHRIST

From Pastor T

“What About Infant Baptism”:

“Baptism is the first word of grace spoken over us by the church.
In my tradition…we baptize infants. Before they cognitively understand the story of Christ, before they can affirm a creed, before they can sit up, use the bathroom, or contribute significantly to the work of the church, grace is spoken over them and they are accepted as a part of us. They are counted as God’s people before they have anything to show for themselves…It is a proclamation: before you know it, before you doubt it, before you confess it, before you can sing it yourself, you are beloved by God, not by your effort but because of what Christ has done on your behalf.
My works and worship don’t earn me a thing. Instead they flow from God’s love, gift and work on my behalf. I am not defined by my abilities or marital status or how I vote or my success or failures or fame or obscurity, but as one who is sealed in the Holy Spirit, hidden in Christ, and beloved by the Father. My naked self is the one who is baptized.”
Trish Harrison Warren

What about infant baptism?
Here are comments from two Trinitarian theologians concerning the practice of baptizing infants.

From James Torrance
In the practice of infant baptism, we believe that in faith we are doing something for the child, long before the child comes to faith, in acknowledgement of what Christ did for all of us nineteen hundred years before we were born. But in faith we pray that Christ in his faithfulness, and in his own, time, will bring this child to personal faith. The efficacy of baptism is not in the rite or in the water, but in the faithfulness of Christ. (Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace, pp. 80, 81)

From Daniel Migliore
While the practice of infant baptism is not absolutely necessary in the life of the church, it may be permissible. And whether it is permissible depends on whether it is being practiced as a routine social rite, or as a form of cheap, magical grace, or instead with the clear understanding that it proclaims the unconditional grace of God in Jesus Christ and calls both parents and community to responsibility for the care, nurture, and guidance of the baptized child in the life of faith, hope, and love. (Faith Seeking Understanding, 2nd ed, p. 286)

For more on this topic, go to https://thesurprisinggodblog.gci.org/2011/04/what-about-infant-baptism.html
For an infant baptism service from Grace Communion International, go to https://www.gci.org/files/Baptism%20of%20an%20Infant.doc