Grade 11 Lesson 1
Grade 11 Lesson 1: One Baptism
Learning Outcomes
Holy Baptism
- G11.LO4 - Clarify misconceptions of Holy Baptism.
- G11.LO5 - Defend the practice of Infant Baptism.
- G11.LO7 - Analyze accepted Baptisms vs Non-accepted Baptisms.
Holy Chrismation
- G11.LO12 - Examine how those who are Chrismated are putting on the physical substance of the Holy Spirit but also putting on Christ, the Anointed One of God.
Textbook Lesson
- USA & Canada: Lesson 1 Textbook PDF
- UEA: Lesson 1 Textbook PDF
Expanding Thoughts on Lesson
- Infant Baptism
- God intervenes with mankind through a covenantal relationship. This covenant is not just with one man, but with the whole household. As Fr. John Hainsworth explains, "The word ‘household’ for any Israelite of the day included everybody in the household, children included. We must remember that a household always included children throughout the Scriptures. Every time God established or spoke about His covenant with the House of Israel, it included the whole of Israel: men, women, and children. Noah’s whole ‘household’ was taken into the ark with him (Genesis 7:1); Abraham had his whole household circumcised (Genesis 17:23), and specifically his son Isaac when he was eight days old (Genesis 21:4); the whole household of every family was taken out of Egypt, and God’s institution of the Passover specifically included the children (Exodus 12:24–28). If the Apostles had taught that children were to be excluded from full inclusion in the covenant, such an innovation would not have fit the prophetic covenants which preceded the fulfilled covenant enacted through Christ." ("Infant Baptism: What the Church Believes", Fr. John Hainsworth, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America)
- New Creation
- “Participation in Christ’s death and resurrection and the reality of this cutting off and new creation takes place in the mystery of Baptism.” “On Circumcision and Baptism” Fr. Stephen De Young (Ancient Faith Ministries)
Lesson Resources
- Bible Verses
- (Romans 6:3-4) "Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."
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