A billboard with letters of red on a yellow background screams the question: WERE YOU BAPTIZED RIGHT? And underneath is a phone number where both an answer and a remedy presumably may be found.

It may seem a ridiculous question to many of us, but the fact that the question is there at all indicates someone takes it seriously. Questions about the form and practice of baptism have caused many divisions in the church through the years. Persons who were baptized in their infancy come requesting baptism by immersion as adults because they feel the first time they weren't "baptized right."

Maybe the question does need asking. At least, there are times when it seems an appropriate question to me.

I think of those persons who don't approve of sending money overseas for missions. They don't trus…