The baptismal rite presented here is found in The United Methodist Hymnal as approved by the 1988 General Conference of the United Methodist Church. The 1992 General Conference approved a forthcoming United Methodist Book of Worship in which the essential text of the rite is unaltered though instructions and rubrics are expanded. Where these 1992 elaborations are deemed particularly significant, they will be noted in the commentary. The process of revising the rite following the 1968 merger...
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