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I heard the story today of a large church that most of us would have heard of having a baby dedication Sunday recently. Parents email or call the church office and give their names and the Baby's name to be included in the dedication service and prayer. At a certain point in the service those parents are called to the stage with said child in tow for the moment they've anticipated for quite some time. Because this is a multi-ethnic, internationally flavored, church not all names are easily known or easily pronounced. Once on the platform, maybe ten couples are there holding their young child and waiting for the pastor's/church's blessing when someone notices...one of the couples is two females.
The pastor does what I would have done, prayed for the child and invoked the blessing of the Lord without a hitch in the service.
What might you have done?
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Perhaps it is a single mother - and a friend came for support.
Why do you assume the worst?
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2ndgeneration |
| philunderwood wrote: | I heard the story today of a large church that most of us would have heard of having a baby dedication Sunday recently. Parents email or call the church office and give their names and the Baby's name to be included in the dedication service and prayer. At a certain point in the service those parents are called to the stage with said child in tow for the moment they've anticipated for quite some time. Because this is a multi-ethnic, internationally flavored, church not all names are easily known or easily pronounced. Once on the platform, maybe ten couples are there holding their young child and waiting for the pastor's/church's blessing when someone notices...one of the couples is two females.
The pastor does what I would have done, prayed for the child and invoked the blessing of the Lord without a hitch in the service.
What might you have done? |
Not sure how large this church is. When I pastored a church of about 400 we always had a form to fill out. Of course, in a church our size, I knew most of the couples. But the form has the name of the parents as well as the child. It is there we would have had a little knowledge of whether the parents were the same sex. It is then that we would have addressed the issue. It is best not to be caught in that situation.  |
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philunderwood |
| Nature Boy Florida wrote: | Perhaps it is a single mother - and a friend came for support.
Why do you assume the worst? |
Heard the story from a staff member...didn't assume anything on my own. Why did you assume that I assumed? LOL
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Nature Boy Florida |
| philunderwood wrote: | | Nature Boy Florida wrote: | Perhaps it is a single mother - and a friend came for support.
Why do you assume the worst? |
Heard the story from a staff member...didn't assume anything on my own. Why did you assume that I assumed? LOL |
Just for the fun of it.
Or maybe the other lady was her mother - a young looking grandmother...
or an effeminate guy..
or a couple of lesbians.
No way to know without asking.
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Dean Steenburgh |
| philunderwood wrote: | I heard the story today of a large church that most of us would have heard of having a baby dedication Sunday recently. Parents email or call the church office and give their names and the Baby's name to be included in the dedication service and prayer. At a certain point in the service those parents are called to the stage with said child in tow for the moment they've anticipated for quite some time. Because this is a multi-ethnic, internationally flavored, church not all names are easily known or easily pronounced. Once on the platform, maybe ten couples are there holding their young child and waiting for the pastor's/church's blessing when someone notices...one of the couples is two females.
The pastor does what I would have done, prayed for the child and invoked the blessing of the Lord without a hitch in the service.
What might you have done? |
I would have done the same thing in that moment & then made a leadership addition to make sure these types of things are vetted a little better. I've done baby dedications for single moms & sometimes they bring a friend or family member of the same gender. I've never thought to ask about the relationship status before but now it makes me wonder.
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| Dean Steenburgh wrote: | | philunderwood wrote: | I heard the story today of a large church that most of us would have heard of having a baby dedication Sunday recently. Parents email or call the church office and give their names and the Baby's name to be included in the dedication service and prayer. At a certain point in the service those parents are called to the stage with said child in tow for the moment they've anticipated for quite some time. Because this is a multi-ethnic, internationally flavored, church not all names are easily known or easily pronounced. Once on the platform, maybe ten couples are there holding their young child and waiting for the pastor's/church's blessing when someone notices...one of the couples is two females.
The pastor does what I would have done, prayed for the child and invoked the blessing of the Lord without a hitch in the service.
What might you have done? |
I would have done the same thing in that moment & then made a leadership addition to make sure these types of things are vetted a little better. I've done baby dedications for single moms & sometimes they bring a friend or family member of the same gender. I've never thought to ask about the relationship status before but now it makes me wonder.
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Yes, I agree! 
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