ArchivedBaptism required?Why don't you ask churches that question. Every SBC church I attended baptized once or twice a month and before you could be baptized all new members and believers were required to attend a 7 week study on what it means to be a Christian, in other words they start the discipling process prior to baptism. Baptisms were also scheduled for Wednesday night services so that Sunday services would not go beyond 12 PM. I have never attended a church of any denomination that baptized immediately upon a profession of faith in Christ. My Presbyterian minister great grandfather baptized me when I was 10. Since Baptists don't accept sprinkling when I joined an SBC church they required I be immersed. The scheduled baptism was postponed twice because the heaters in the baptismal font were broken and the pastors didn't want to get in the cold water. Baptism is a command, but it is not a prerequisite to salvation. BTW, your example of soldiers being baptized in Iraq, a short war with relatively few casualties in no way compares to Viet Nam, WW I and WW II where taking the time to find a river or digging a whole would have cost you and others their lives. |
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