Our Baptism Mode!!

[H2H]

Originally Posted by Sherri

I don't think baptism saves anyone; I believe they are saved when they repent. At that point, they leave Satan's kingdom and enter God's kingdom. I don't think you can be partly saved. I think they follow through with baptism as a result of being saved; they same with receiving the Holy Ghost. We have had over 50 receive the Holy Ghost every year for the past few years. We definitely teach that it is vital to the Christian walk. But we don't teach that everyone will be lost who hasn't done the "three steps".

Amen.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Sherri

I'm cool with that. I don't expect to agree on everything. But I still love you!!

I still love you too!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by H2H

Amen.

So, do you skip it or just I Peter 3:21?

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Sherri

If a trinitarian pastor used the exact wording we use, everyone would say he was "coming our way"!!

So true! But I thought that everyone was looking our way!?!?!?

[H2H]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

So, do you skip it or just I Peter 3:21?

When one has a graduation ceremony it is symbolic of knowledge recieved, but is not the knowledge it'self nor the impartation of the knowledge. When you say you graduated it is a public proclamation of what took place prior.

Baptism is the public proclamation of your acceptance of Jesus. Since regeneration is not public, but a matter of the heart, they often are and should be, linked.

[Ron]

We baptize in the name of the "Lord Jesus Christ!"
The congregation shouts out "In Jesus Name!" when the candidate for batism goes underneath the water.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by H2H

When one has a graduation ceremony it is symbolic of knowledge received, but is not the knowledge itself nor the impartation of the knowledge. When you say you graduated it is a public proclamation of what took place prior.

Baptism is the public proclamation of your acceptance of Jesus. Since regeneration is not public, but a matter of the heart, they often are and should be, linked.

When I read I Peter 3:21, it is telling me that I am saved by it. That means that it keeps leading me back to Acts 2:38.

II Thessalonians 2:13 "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"


I'm saved by Baptism. I'm saved by sanctification of the Spirit.

It just keeps leading me back to Acts 2:38.

Repentance is always first. I guess I'm a three-stepper!

[H2H]

Originally Posted by Ron

We baptize in the name of the "Lord Jesus Christ!"
The congregation shouts out "In Jesus Name!" when the candidate for batism goes underneath the water.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Ron

We baptize in the name of the "Lord Jesus Christ!"
The congregation shouts out "In Jesus Name!" when the candidate for batism goes underneath the water.

I like that, Ron!!!

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Ron

We baptize in the name of the "Lord Jesus Christ!"
The congregation shouts out "In Jesus Name!" when the candidate for batism goes underneath the water.

Sounds interesting. Does it serve a purpose with the people shouting? I accually do that when someone is baptized, but I do not shout it.