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Title: Understanding Baptism (Series: Church Basics)
Author: Bobby Jamieson, Jonathan Leeman - Series Editor
Narrator: Daniel Patterson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-18
Publisher: christianaudio.com
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought
Publisher's Summary:
What's the big deal about baptism?
Jesus commands his disciples to be baptized, and it's a glorious picture of a person's union with Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection. Still, many Christians feel unclear about the topic, having more questions than answers.
This short work provides a biblical explanation of baptism. What is it? Who should be baptized? Why is it required for church membership? And how should churches practice baptism?
Members Reviews:
are perfect for church classes and basic training for leaders
This book, and really the entire series, are perfect for church classes and basic training for leaders. The book is clear, accessible, and thought-provoking. It's my go-to book for our baptism and membership class.
Excellent Resource
This book was a profound help in giving greater clarity to the ordinance of baptism, and especially the importance of doing so in the context of a Christian community.
best book on baptism I've read
best book on baptism I've read. Treats the pedo-baptism position fairly, then fairly dismantles it imo. concise and to the point.
Great Primer on Baptism from a Baptistic Perspective
âThe Christian life is a churched life.â This simple, yet profound statement under-girds a new series of books Church Basics edited by Jonathan Leeman from B&H. This series is aimed at the average church member and each book addresses a specific part of church life of which every church member ought to be both knowledgeable about and involved in.
Understanding Baptism answers basic questions like What is Baptism?, Who Should be Baptized?, and How Should Churches Practice Baptism? This book, as well as all those in the series, are written, and thus the questions are answered, by those who take a Baptistic understanding of church government, baptism, and the Lordâs Supper. Even those Christians who have a different understanding of these church life issues will benefit from these books if they want to learn the other side and want to be challenged about their own position. Leeman defines baptism as follows: âBaptism is a churchâs act of affirming and portraying a believerâs union with Christ by immersing him or her in water, and a believerâs act of publicly committing him or herself to Christ and his people, thereby uniting a believer to the church and marking off him or her from the world.â (6)
Understanding the Congregationâs Authority addresses basic issues about the congregations role in the church such as what Jesus expects of his understanding-the-congregations-authority-by-leemandisciples in the church, the role Adam had and how that relates to church members, and the role pastors play in a church members discipleship. Too often is our churches the pastors (and its even worse if there is only one full-time pastor) and elders (though this is not always the case with them) are expected to do the lion share of church ministry. But is this the case? Is a pastor supposed to master all ministries so that he can be the only one ministering to everyone else? This book argues no and provides a solidly biblical case for the every-member-a-minister mindset.