لماذا يرش الميثوديون الماء؟ الرش مقابل الغمر في المعمودية الميثودية

United Methodists usually sprinkle. Their church teaches that God’s grace, not the amount of water, makes a baptism, and it baptizes babies at a font inside the church, where a little water is enough. It accepts sprinkling, pouring and immersion as equally valid, and any member may ask to be immersed. What it will not do is baptize anyone twice. The church’s own glossary says that “a candidate for Holy Baptism or his sponsors may choose any of the traditional…