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| | Discover the Disciples |
 | | At the conclusion of a Disciples baptism, the congregation most often is asked to pledge support of the newly-baptized person in her or his faith journey. | | | A person baptized in another Christian tradition wishing to join a Disciples congregation is simply asked: "Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and proclaim him Lord and Savior of your life?" The person who answers, "I do," is welcomed into the congregation. | | | Baptism in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) takes water -- plenty of water. |
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http://www.disciples.org/discover/baptism.htm
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| | Practices of Faith: Baptism |
| | Baptism: A Practice of Faith in the United Church of Christ | | | "Baptism" is one of 11 introductory brochures from "Practices of Faith in United Church of Christ" published by the Worship and Education Ministry Team of Local Church Ministries. | | | Water is a prominent symbol of cleansing and life in the Bible—the water of creation, the great flood, the liberation of Israel through the sea, the water of Mary's womb, the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, the woman at the well, and Jesus' washing of the feet of the disciples. |
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http://www.ucc.org/worship/baptism.htm
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| | Baptism |
| | While in John’s time and part of the world, baptism was a common feature of the religious landscape and these contemporary practices may have had some influence on him, we must keep in mind that John was not only the forerunner of Jesus Christ, he was the last of the OT prophets. | | | He gave them this post-resurrection baptism as a graphic symbolic declaration of faith and surrender, and as a sign of the many blessings that a believer enjoys because of his or her relationship to him. | | | Where believer's baptism is practiced as an "initiatory washing with water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit," as our risen Lord commanded, there is a joy, peace, power, and a felt presence of the Spirit that cannot be denied. |
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http://www.xcelco.on.ca/~sgcc/baptism.htm
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| | Water Baptism |
| | Although some institutional church organizations require water baptism to identify with their "church," the universal Church, the "Body of Christ," is comprised of all Christians who have received the Spirit of Christ by faith. | | | Water is used in many contexts other than baptism throughout the Scriptures, and Jesus' comments to Nicodemus seem better suited contextually to an interpretation that indicates that both physical birth ("born of water" when "the water breaks") and spiritual birth are necessitated in order to function within God's kingdom. | | | Not convinced by the Reformed theology of baptism but certainly less convinced of the Restoration theology of baptism, I returned to the United States to study with the Quakers, also known as the "Friends Church." Theirs is a theology of quietism which seeks to avoid all externalities of sacramentalism. |
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http://www.christinyou.net/pages/baptism.html
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| | Baptism |
| | Baptism by immersion was a very common practice in the early Church -- the most common practice, in fact; but it wasn't the exclusive practice, as the Bible attests. | | | We believe that baptism with water -- by immersion, pouring, or sprinkling -- in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, cleanses us from original sin and personal sin (and their punishments) and initiates us into the life of the Church. | | | Most Catholic churches had baptisteries in which the catechumen would stand and either be immersed (if the size of the baptistery allowed) or have water poured over his head, but all three methods -- immersion, pouring, or sprinkling -- were used. |
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http://www.fisheaters.com/baptism.html
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| | The Sacraments - Baptism by A. A. Hodge |
| | Baptism takes the place of circumcision, the seal of the covenant which God made with Abraham: “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. | | | Baptism is the “circumcision of Christ” (Col. ii. | | | Circumcision and the washing the body with water in baptism are obviously natural signs, significant of the need of a second birth—a new birth, which will be like life from the dead; a life distinguished from the natural life by spirituality. |
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http://www.the-highway.com/Baptism_Hodge.html
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| | Berkhof on Baptism |
| | And because baptism is not a private matter, but an ordinance of the Church, they also hold that it should be administered in the public assembly of believers. | | | They have generally recognized the baptism of other Churches, not excluding the Roman Catholics, and also of the various sects, except in the case of Churches and sects which denied the Trinity. | | | Some simply pointed out that infants born of believing parents are children of the covenant, and as such heirs of the promises of God, including also the promise of regeneration; and the spiritual efficacy of baptism is not limited to the time of its administration, but continues through life. |
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http://www.all-of-grace.org/pub/others/berkhof_bapt.html
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| | Baptism |
| | Examples are the fire which burned the sacrifice on the Hebrew altar, and the fire from God which burned the watered down sacrifices of Elijah and the prophets of Baal. | | | There are seven types of baptism mentioned in the Bible. | | | The first occurrence was on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit placed the new believers into the body of Christ. |
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http://www.realtime.net/~wdoud/topics/baptism.html
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| | His By Grace--"Baptism ~Charles H. Spurgeon" |
| | But neither infant baptism nor any other practice could be sanctioned by evidence of existence in the age immediately succeeding the apostolic period, or existence in apostolic times, if destitute of apostolic sanction; and especially if opposed to, and destructive of, what is divinely enjoined. | | | We maintain that the only proper subjects of Christian baptism are believers in Christ, those proselyted to Christ, disciples of Christ; or, since we have not, and are not required to have access to the heart, those who make a credible profession of faith in Christ. | | | It is certain the children of believers were once visibly in covenant with God, and received the seal of their admission into the church. |
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http://www.gracesermons.com/robbeeee/spurgbaptism.html
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| | Baptismal Grace |
| | At that same moment in which the priests invoke the Spirit, heaven opens, and he descends and rests upon the waters, and those who are baptized are clothed in him. | | | Paul didn’t write, "For I was not sent to baptize but to pray with people to accept Jesus as their personal Savior" (or even "to lead people to faith"). | | | In 1 Corinthians 1:14—17 Paul wrote that he was glad that he himself had baptized so few of the Corinthians, since they could not say that they were baptized in his name; and he went on to say, "For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. |
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http://www.catholic.com/library/Baptismal_Grace.asp
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| | Baptism |
| | But I am persuaded that a more careful consideration of the subject will show that these views, besides being clearly sanctioned by Scripture, and absolutely necessary for the consistent and intelligible interpretation of our own standards, are, in their legitimate application, fitted to deprive the arguments of the anti-pado-baptists of whatever plausibility they possess. | | | "William the Baptist is a concise and Scriptural case for infant baptism.... | | | Baptist generally believe that immersion is the only valid mode of baptism, while Presbyterians generally believe that the mode itself is unimportant. |
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http://www.mbrem.com/baptism/baptism.htm
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| | Baptism, by Francis Schaeffer |
| | Saint Augustine, writing concerning infant baptism, said, "This doctrine is held by the whole church, not instituted by councils, but always retained." Those who would teach that the practice of the early Church was not infant baptism should be able to show in Church History when it started. | | | We believe in Infant Baptism because of the unity of the spiritual promises in all dispensations. | | | The dispensational change from Circumcision to Baptism is no more than that of the change from the seventh day to the first as the day of worship. |
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http://www.fivesolas.com/fs_bapt.htm
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| | Baptism For Remission of Sins - Index |
| | or the FOUNDATION of the gospel for those WHO ARE NOT JESUS CHRIST is baptism FOR (in order to) the remission of sins and a NEW BIRTH as a little child (Jesus), receiving A holy spirit (Peter) which is A clear conscience or consiousness as a co-perceiver of the WORD. | | | None of these events see people saved before they obey God's command upon which their faith rests. | | | All Old Testament events are prophetic types of some spiritual need in mankind. |
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http://www.piney.com/Bapt1Index.html
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| | Baptism |
| | "Baptism Integrity" is the only website dedicated to consideration of the issues of the theology and practice of baptism. | | | We've tried to make the site as easy as possible to navigate with over 1800 internal cross references. | | | The least discovered statement on theology and practice of baptism? |
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http://www.baptism.org.uk
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