Baptism and Circumcision: Where Infant Baptism Gets It Wrong
The issue of baptism is the trademark of Baptist identity. Since their beginning, Baptists have taken a unique stance on the issue of baptism: that only believer’s can be baptized. This doctrine is grounded in Paul’s words in Romans 6:3-4: Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was...
Accounting for Accountability
The Baptist church has quite a problem: We are losing churched young adults at an alarming rate to the growing ranks of the un-churched. [In comparison] to older adults, twentysomethings have significantly lower levels of church attendance, time spent alone studying and reading the Bible, volunteering to help churches, donations to churches, Sunday school and small group involvement, and use of Christian media (including television,...
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