An gudanar da shawarwarin kwanaki uku a farkon watan Janairu wanda ya ƙunshi wakilai daga al'adun cocin "baftisma masu bi" shida daban-daban don raba fahimtarsu da ayyukan baftisma da kuma gano yadda tunaninsu ya canza dangane da haɗuwar tauhidi da ke kunno kai game da baftisma da haɓaka gamuwa da ecumenical. a cikin shekaru 30 da suka gabata. Wannan shi ne karo na farko da aka gudanar da irin wannan taro, don haka yana wakiltar wani lokaci mai tarihi a rayuwar wadannan al'adun.
Al'adun da suka taru don taron a Kingston, Jamaica, sun haɗa da Baptists, Brothers, Churches of Christ, almajiran Kristi, Mennonites, da Pentecostals. Mahalarta taron 18 sun fito ne daga Jamaica, Kenya, Jamus, Paraguay, Switzerland, Burtaniya, da Amurka.
Mahalarta cocin ’yan’uwa su ne shugaban Makarantar Tauhidi ta Bethany Jeff Carter da Denise Kettering-Lane, mataimakiyar farfesa na Nazarin ’yan’uwa a makarantar hauza ta Church of the Brothers, Ofishin Babban Sakatare ne ya ɗauki nauyinsa. Kettering-Lane ta gabatar da takarda a madadin Cocin ’yan’uwa, kuma Carter ne ya rubuta rahoton taron.
Budi da gaskiya tunani
Shirin tuntuɓar ya fito ne daga taron shekara-shekara na Sakatarorin Ƙungiyoyin Duniya na Kirista a 2012, wanda ya lura da sabbin tunani da yarjejeniyoyin hukuma game da amincewa da baftisma tsakanin majami'u waɗanda ke yin “baftisma na jarirai” da waɗanda ke yin “baftisma na muminai. ”
Ajandar shawarwarin sun hada da gabatar da jawabai daga kowane al’ada kan koyarwarsu da kuma yadda ake yin baftisma a baya da kuma na yanzu, tare da kula da yadda fahimtarsu ta canza ko ta bunkasa, tare da damar tattauna abubuwan da aka gabatar. Wakilin Hukumar Faith and Order Commission na Majalisar Ikklisiya ta Duniya (WCC) shi ma ya halarci don ba da labari daga hangen nesa na tattaunawa mai zurfi na duniya kan baftisma a cikin motsi na ecumenical.
Manyan batutuwan tuntubar da aka yi, kamar yadda aka bayyana a cikin rahoton taron, sun hada da.
- godiya ga damar samun buɗaɗɗen tunani da gaskiya a kan ma'ana, aiki da fahimtar fahimtar baftisma tsakanin mahalarta;
- suna ba da damar da aka samu a cikin siffar "kasancewa cikin tafiya" don rayuwar Kirista, tare da nau'i daban-daban da maganganu na farawa da ikirari, yayin raba irin wannan kira zuwa almajirantarwa;
— Mahimmancin fahimtar Ruhu Mai Tsarki a matsayin tushen bambance-bambancen mu da haɗin kai cikin Almasihu;
- bukatar sake nazarin harshen "sacrament," " farillai," "alama," da "alama" a matsayin hanyoyin da za a gane cewa Allah ne farkon mai yin baftisma;
- bukatar gane ci gaba tsakanin ecumenical liyafar da sauran al'adu a matsayin coci, da kuma ayyuka da cewa alama kowace al'ada a matsayin musamman furci na jikin Kristi.
Za a raba cikakken rahoton game da taron tare da taron sakatarorin ƙungiyoyin Kirista na duniya da kuma kwamitin bangaskiya da oda na WCC tare da fatan za ta motsa tattaunawa da yin aiki kan amincewa da baftisma da Kirista. hadin kai gaba.
Mahalarta shawarwarin
Ƙungiyar Baptist ta Duniya:
Rev. Neville Callam, Babban Sakatare, Baptist World Alliance (Washington, DC)
Rev. Dr. Glenroy Lalor, Malami, United Theological College of West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica)
Rev. Dr. Jim Somerville, Fasto, First Baptist Church (Richmond, Va.)
Church of Brother:
Rev. Dr. Jeff Carter, Shugaba, Bethany Theological Seminary (Richmond, Ind.)
Dr. Denise Kettering-Lane, Mataimakin Farfesa na Nazarin 'Yan'uwa, Makarantar tauhidi ta Bethany (Richmond, Ind.)
Taron Duniya na Ikklisiya na Kristi:
Dr. John Mark Hicks, Farfesa na Tiyoloji, Jami'ar Lipscomb (Nashville, Tenn.)
Dr. Gary Holloway, Babban Darakta, Taron Duniya na Ikklisiya na Kristi (Nashville, Tenn.)
Dokta Mark Weedman, Farfesa na Falsafa da Da'a, Jami'ar Johnson, (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Majalisar Tuntuba ta Almajirai:
Rev. Dr. Marjorie Lewis, Shugaba, United Theological College of West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica)
Rev. Dr. David M. Thompson, United Reformed Church da Emeritus Farfesa na Tarihin Cocin Zamani, Jami'ar Cambridge (Ingila)
Rev. Dr. Robert K. Welsh, Babban Sakatare, Almajirai Ecumenical Consultative Council (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Taron Duniya na Mennonite:
Rev. Dr. Fernando Enns, Farfesa na (Peace-) Tiyoloji da Da'a, Jami'ar Free University Amsterdam (Netherland) da Jami'ar Hamburg (Jamus), memba na Kwamitin Tsakiya na Majalisar Ikklisiya ta Duniya
Dokta Alfred Neufeld, Rector, Jami'ar Furotesta ta Paraguay (Ascension, Paraguay)
Rev. Rebecca Osiro, Wakiliyar Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta Mennonite ta Gabashin Afirka, kuma limamin cocin Mennonite a Nairobi, Kenya
Pentikostal:
Dr. Cecil M. Robeck, Farfesa na Tarihin Ikilisiya da Ecumenics, Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, Calif.)
Rev. Dr. Tony Richie, Fasto, New Harvest Church of God (Knoxville, Tenn.) da Adjunct Farfesa na Pentecostal Theology (Cleveland, Tenn.)
Rev. Dr. Daniel Tomberlin, Fasto, Vidalia Church of God (Vidalia, Ga.)
Hukumar Imani da oda ta WCC:
Rev. Dr. Dagmar Heller, Shugaban Ilimi na Cibiyar Ecumenical (Bossey, Switzerland) da Babban Sakatare na Bangaskiya da Oda, WCC (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Wannan rahoton ya fito ne daga sakin Robert K. Welsh.