Remember that Jesus Christ prayed that we all be as One, we in Him and Him in us [
starting with Baptism].
The book
starts with a baptism, ends with a trial of a man who fights the establishment for standing up to his vision after all of his friends desert him, and culminates in a liberation and triumph over evil.
Not exact matches
The reason I state it like this is because most everybody goes wrong,
starting with a poor understanding from Romans 3 & 4 that makes them misinterpret the gospels and the demonstrations in the books of Acts concerning
baptism.
Essentially, this involved offering a new form of evangelisation,
starting with basic catechesis while recognising that
baptism had already occurred and that what was needed was a sort of profound awakening of something already offered by God.
Mark is a bit skimpy,
starting only
with baptism of Jesus, ending
with empty tomb and promise of future sightings in Galilee.
Mark states that his purpose is to set forth «the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,» and he
starts with Jesus»
baptism.
from the idea that
baptism is essentially a welcome into «the community», and instead it is now more correctly understood as the essential
start of a life's journey
with God.
We are told of the fullness and the Second Coming, but of the nature of these things and their relation to the historical process we have no idea whatever: In the only sense that our imaginations can grasp, the task
starts all over again
with every
baptism, every birth, and reaches its eschatological consummation on every deathbed.
A «
baptism of fire» is the best way to get
started... otherwise you might never get launched
with all the stuff to learn.»