Sentences with phrase «everything about baptism»

Not exact matches

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

As one who is concerned about the renewal of the liturgy, I have been continually impressed that we do everything possible to avoid baptism.

We have known each other for about two years, and though we agree on many basic doctrines of Christianity, we don't agree on everything, and we definitely do not see eye to eye on some central Christian practices like baptism, the Lord's Supper, and church attendance.

So, as has happened frequently in the process of writing Close Your Church for G00d, I'm cutting almost everything I have written so far about baptism in the book of Acts, and am summarizing it with the following:

The baptism of Jesus by John in the Jordan has nothing to do with repenting of sin or getting saved, but everything to do with making a public declaration about which side Jesus is on and what He will live His life for.