Sentences with phrase «truths about baptism»

And this is with good reason, since the chapter does contain some great truths about baptism.

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Catholicism today must leave the shallow and brackish waters of institutional maintenance, understanding that the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 is addressed to each of us in baptism, and living the universal call to holiness in such a way that the world meets Christ in us — and thus meets the truth about itself.

He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection from the dead.

Or were confused about its understanding of how Christians ought to live the truth of their baptism.

The Galatians were advised by Paul about the fundamental truth of the Gospel in Baptism.