God’s Word teaches us a doctrine called “believer’s baptism,” which means that God has only designed baptism to be applied to believers.
Believers’ baptism started when Jesus Christ said that the way that people were to declare God’s ownership of their lives after they were saved was when they were baptized in His Name.
Jesus included this baptism of believers in the plan for the church.
CHRIST JESUS LEFT THE PLAN FOR HIS CHURCH
When Jesus left the disciples with the plan they were to follow, it was simple:
Go, evangelize, baptize & train.
That is the Great Commission. That is God’s plan for Christ’s Church. As stated twice (Matthew 28:18-20 and Mark 16:16) and illustrated in Acts nine times, it is what God expects us in Christ’s Church to do.
Our job is to make disciples; and our motivation is to do that (and everything else), for the glory of God. A simple reading of the commission of Christ and the record of the response of His disciples and the early church would lead us to conclude that:
BAPTISM WAS PART OF THE PLAN
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