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Ordinances
What is Baptism?
From the BFC
Articles of Faith: 20-1. Baptism - Water baptism,1 the immersion
of the believer, is a visible testimony to the work of regeneration2
and a mark of identification and union with Christ.3 It has no saving
or cleansing power, but it is the answer of a good conscience before God; hence,
it should be administered only to those who have, by faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ, realized the forgiveness of sins and possess the assurance of acceptance
with God.
1
They traveled along the road and came to
some water and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water;
why shouldn't I be
baptized?" (Acts 8:36).
2 Those who accepted his message were baptized,
and about three thousand were added to their number that day (Acts 2:41).
3 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with
you always, to the very end of the age (Mat.28:19,20). Or don't you know that
all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We
were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as
Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live
a new life (Rom.6:3,4). In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of
the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the
circumcision done by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised
with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead
(Col.2:11,12).
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