Why should you be baptized? To respond to the gospel call of Jesus as your brothers and sisters have in the stream of church history, as the book of Acts indicates.

The sermon today is titled "Swim With The Stream." It is the third installment in our series "Washed Anew: The Power & Promise of Baptism." The Scripture reading is from Acts 2:36-41 (ESV). Originally preached at the West Side Church of Christ (Searcy, AR) on Sunday, April 28, 2024. All lessons fit under one of 5 broad categories: Begin, Discover, Grow, Learn, and Serve. This sermon is filed under BEGIN: A Joyful Response.

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Sources of Inspiration for the Lesson Used in Today's Podcast:

• Peter Leithart, Baptism: A Guide From Life To Death (Lexham Press).
• G. R. Beasley-Murray, Baptism in the New Testament (1962)
• Charalambos Bakirtzis, “Paul and Philippi: The Archaeological Evidence,” in Philippi at the Time of Paul and after His Death.
• Craig Keener, Acts, Volume 1.
• H. Wayne House, “An Evangelical Response to Baird & Weatherly,” in Evangelicalism and the Stone-Campbell Movement, p. 188.
• Robert H. Stein, “Baptism and Becoming a Christian in the New Testament,” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 2.1. (1998), pp. 6-17.
• I. Howard Marshall, Acts, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries.
• Joel B. Green, “From ‘John’s Baptism’ to ‘Baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus’: The Significance of Baptism in Luke-Acts,” in Baptism, the New Testament and the Church: Historical and Contemporary Studies in Honour of R. E. O. White, p. 161.
• E. O. White, The Biblical Doctrine of Initiation (London: Hodder & Stoughton), 1960.
• M. J. Walker, “Baptist Worship in the Twentieth Century,” in Baptists in the Twentieth Century, ed. K. W. Clements (London: Baptist Histoical Society, 1983), pp. 24-25.
• David Wenham, “Paradigms and Possibilities in the Study of John’s Gospel,” Challenging Perspectives on the Gospel of John, ed. John Lierman,  pp. 8-9.
• Robert H. Stein, “Baptism and Becoming A Christian in the New Testament,” The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 2/1 (Spring 1998): 6-17.
• William S. Kurz, Acts of the Apostles