Two things
happened at the baptism of Jesus.
Not exact matches
The group
baptism happened at an unsettling time for European Christians.
Even John the Baptist seems to have forgotten all that
happened at Jesus»
baptism, including his own words of testimony that the person he baptized was far greater than he, one whose sandals he was not worthy to unloose.
The sheer unpredictability of city encounters makes it impossible to presume, as many churches do, that God's grace must be sequential — measured out
at regular intervals in
baptism, confirmation, communion, marriage, burial — and will
happen to everyone
at the prescribed time, in the same way.»
The
baptism of the Holy Spirit is something that
happens to believers beginning
at Pentecost in Acts 2.
If it's OK for Buddists, Taoists and some Christians to believe that certain things
happen to me after I die that I don't believe in, why do people throw stones
at Mormons for believing that their ancestors can accept
baptism after this life?
There is the problem of what
happens at holy
Baptism.
A couple of pastors are explaining the why and how of
baptism to a church that is (apparently) filled with new believers who know next to nothing about
baptism, why they should get baptized, or what will
happen at the
baptism.So they created this video and showed it in their worship service.
These two major theological contributions, one from almost thirty years ago, and the other from almost twenty years ago, indicate that concerned theologians have been wrestling with the issues of
baptism conversion, and mission, without loosing track of what had
happened in the past, while
at the same time trying to discern what was
happening in their immediate context.