The apparent conflict between preaching for seekers and preaching for believers is resolved simply by noting that both need to repent of sin and trust in Jesus to live a new life empowered by the Spirit.
I would be devastated if my wife rarely uttered my name, and Jesus’ bride, the church, is too often guilty of not speaking the name of Jesus with frequent passion from the pulpit.
sacrament, which refers to an outward, visible sign of an inward, invisible spiritual reality.
because most recipients of baptism are infants in these Christian traditions, personal repentance and belief are neither the prerequisite for baptism nor the basis of salvation.
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“Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church; but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in the newness of life.”
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Circumcision is associated with membership in the ethnic community, while baptism is associated with new-covenant salvation in Jesus.
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