{"id":8072,"date":"2023-10-19T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:51:27","slug":"bear-grylls-celebrates-getting-baptized-in-the-jordan-river-dream-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2023\/10\/bear-grylls-celebrates-getting-baptized-in-the-jordan-river-dream-of-mine.html","title":{"rendered":"Bear Grylls Celebrates Getting Baptized in the Jordan River: &#8216;Dream of Mine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8081\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8081\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2023\/10\/bear-grylls-baptism-credit-bear-grylls-x.png\" alt=\"bear grylls\" width=\"768\" height=\"560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@BearGrylls\/X.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reality TV star, author, and survivalist Bear Grylls recently checked off a bucket list item as he was baptized in the Jordan River, fulfilling what he called a lifelong &#8220;dream of mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grylls wrote in a post on X, &#8220;It had always been a dream of mine to get in the water that Jesus was baptized in by my hero, John the Baptist. The story is so amazing, [and] it seems wherever Jesus went, that new birth, new life, a new vision followed.&#8221; He went on to point his followers to the New Testament book of Luke, who &#8220;was probably a Syrian doctor before he met Jesus&#8221; and wrote &#8220;a reliable, poignant account of [Jesus&#8217;] life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old has always been open about his faith. During\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.cbn.com\/article\/not-selected\/bear-grylls-mud-sweat-tears\">a years-old interview with CBN News<\/a>, the TV personality said he &#8220;always had a really natural faith as a kid.&#8221; He said, &#8220;Where I knew God existed, and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn&#8217;t religious. Then I went to school, and suddenly, it all became much more religious, and I thought, &#8216;Oh, I don&#8217;t like this.&#8217; It was all about churchgoing and telling you not to smoke behind the bike shed when you are age 12.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It had always been a dream of mine to get in the water that Jesus was baptised in by my hero John the Baptist. The story is so amazing, &amp; it seems wherever Jesus went, that new birth, new life, a new vision followed. Luke (in the bible) was probably a Syrian doctor before he met\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YwcEwL1ewh\">pic.twitter.com\/YwcEwL1ewh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bear Grylls OBE (@BearGrylls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BearGrylls\/status\/1708818239793356979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Grylls explained that it wasn&#8217;t until age 16 that he developed a real relationship with Jesus. Then, Grylls lost his godfather, whom he described as &#8220;a second father to me.&#8221; He recalled, &#8220;His death came totally out of the blue, and it was a real shock to me. I remember wanting to pray but not knowing how to, and I remember sitting up in this tree and saying a very simple prayer that said, &#8216;Will You be that friend to me that You were when I was like five or six, and it felt natural? Amen.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;And that was actually a prayer of finding a faith. And I think for life now, it&#8217;s still a continued journey of not letting too much of the religious stuff cloud the heart of faith that is very simple. It&#8217;s about being loved. It&#8217;s about being forgiven. It&#8217;s about finding a home. And those are great things that all of us need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Christians, we are called to come together in community and fellowship with other believers to serve one another and seek accountability and discipleship. The author of Hebrews 10:24-25 wrote, &#8220;And\u00a0let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,\u00a0not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and\u00a0all the more as you see\u00a0the Day drawing near&#8221; (ESV).<\/p>\n<p>In James 5:16, the brother of Jesus wrote, &#8220;Therefore,\u00a0confess your sins to one another and pray for one another,\u00a0that you may be healed.\u00a0The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working&#8221; (ESV). Keep Bear Grylls in your prayers as he continues his walk with Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reality TV star, author, and survivalist Bear Grylls recently checked off a bucket list item as he was baptized in the Jordan River, fulfilling what he called a lifelong &#8220;dream of mine.&#8221; Grylls wrote in a post on X, &#8220;It had always been a dream of mine to get in the water that Jesus was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":8081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,52],"tags":[389,1772,1775],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baptism","category-prayer","tag-baptism","tag-bear-grylls","tag-jordan-river"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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