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Re: Christ Did Not Send Me to Baptize?
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Originally Posted by Alter Ego
But Miss B, Paul deemphasized the importance of his role in baptism. He stated that Christ did not call him to baptize, but to preach the Gospel.
The best we can assume is that he had handlers who performed that Christian rite. And that is an assumption, right?
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Maybe there's a 6th fold of the ministry--baptizers. 
I don't know why he made the statement, but I don't think he was deemphasizing the importance of baptism. I think he was emphasizing the importance of remembering that our allegiance is to Christ, and not to the person that led us to Christ.
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abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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