Baptized?

It was early one week day when I got an unusual phone call. A pleasant sounding young lady had an inquiry. She wanted to know if we kept records of baptisms? The answer to that is both yes and no. I know that some churches keep a sort of "accession book" which notes when anyone is baptized or when someone is voted into the church membership. Yes, we have a membership roll, but no, we don't have a book where we just note when someone is baptized.

So far, so good, then she hit me with a follow up question that I had a hard time getting my mind around. "Well, I might have gotten baptized there, but I really don't remember. I was hoping you could clear that up for me." My first thought was that she had a recollection of getting baptized, but was unsure about which church had performed this ordinance. No, she was unsure if she had ever been baptized and thought that if she had, it would have been at the church I serve.

Baptism is supposed to be a symbolic identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. If you can forget whether you did that, then do you really understand its significance?

All of this was running in the back of my mind as I assured this young lady that I would look into our records. My hope is that I can find some record of her, or her family, which would give me the hope of making a connection. Perhaps I can point her in the direction of a real relationship with God. She mentioned that she had not really "been in church" since childhood. Who knows, maybe this curiosity of hers was planted by God? I don't know about her past, but I hope there can be a relationship between her and God in the future.