Baptism: water that speaks
This short essay does not attempt to discuss the aspects of baptism where Christians differ. I have tried to do that elsewhere. My aim here is much simpler; it is to present a flavour of what the water in baptism really conveys; its enacted word.
Baptism simply means ‘plunging’. It is a practice first seen in the NT when John the Baptist baptised in Jordan (Mk 1:2-5). It seemed then, to avoid distracting controversy I will go no further than this, to involve being plunged by John in Jordan. What was happening? Why were people being plunged by John in a river – the river Jordan (most, it appears, had to go out of their way to get to where he was baptising)?
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Hi there - I am a member of Greenview and have been for over 20 years. For a number of these years I functioned as an elder, however, indifferent health forced me to take more of a back seat. I see this as an opportunity to do a little writing, often focussing on issues that are a matter of evangelical debate today. Naturally the views expressed are my own and may not reflect the views of the elders or church at large, though differences are likely to be in the detail and not the substance.
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