A massive crowd of 12,000 gathered in the water of California for the largest baptism in US history.
As newborn infants, we are brought into this world. We grow and change. The tendency to sin stays with us but, by baptism we die with Christ and come to new life. God wants to make a new story for us. So, we must be born again by water and Spirit. God gives us food to sustain us. He shelters us and He gives grace, bringing us into the Church, and into covenant relationship like in the Old Testament. The question is, do we accept only the gift or embrace the Giver?