In this week’s episode, we continue our summer sermon series, “Being Church Together,” with Fr. Lonnie Lacy reflecting on what baptism teaches us about the Christian life — and about what it means to truly belong to one another as the Church.

Drawing from Paul’s words in Romans 6, Fr. Lonnie reminds us that baptism is more than a symbol of being washed clean; it is a journey of dying and rising with Christ. Through baptism, we are invited into a lifelong process of transformation — letting go of the things that separate us from God and growing into the people God calls us to be.

Fr. Lonnie explores how conversion is not just a single moment or experience, but a lifetime of “repenting and returning” to God. The promise we make in the Baptismal Covenant is not a promise of perfection, but a promise that whenever we fall ...