Are infants and young children proper subjects for baptism? This lesson studies this historical question in light of the New Testament.

Does it matter what a baptizer says when baptizing a person? Are there New Testament qualifications for baptizers? Both questions have been asked and created concerns among some. We offer an answer.

A response to some often asked questions raised when we teach that baptism is essential for salvation.

Peter's response to his hearers' desperate question, "what shall we do?" answered both the problem of their guilt over a specific sin and the problem of how to resist sin's ongoing effort to keep us enslaved.

Paul assurance to the Romans reminds us that baptism was the point in time where our participation with Christ in his death, burial and resurrection brought about the change that broke sin's grip on our hearts and makes it possible to live a holy life before God.

The church's emphasis on the importance of baptism is attributable to its essential connection with Jesus, a connection Paul explains in his plea to the Galatians not to turn to a "different gospel."

Because the Bible speaks frequently of baptism, and because there continues to be much discussion of it by Bible students, periodic study of this subject is important. This lesson will present some fundamentals that are foundational to the discussion.

Fundamental to understanding Christianity is the New Testament's teaching that those who follow Jesus are making a commitment to reorient everything in their lives to follow his teachings and way. Contrary to the partial truth many believe about it, this is what the Bible includes in the idea of repentance.

By definition, covenants like the one given at Sinai and the new covenant of Christ were offers of grace to which the subject people responded in obedience; conditions therefore are inherent in the covenant.

The connection of covenant with the most significant event in the Christian faith shows that Christianity is a covenant religion, a point the Hebrews writer explains and applies more completely.