Your Disciple Pathway: Baptism

Part of Your Disciple Pathway

September 14, 2024

Baptism is extremely

and

to God because of what it means to Him, and also what it should mean to us.

Baptism is central to the

, and the Gospel is central to

God loves

Baptism

the Gospel to others and to You.

Baptism is a

for your old life.

Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good, or good people better, He came to make

people

of sin is often in conjunction with baptism – Matt. 3:6

There should be a curiosity and

for baptism – Acts 8:36

Baptism is like a

– it’s meant to be a public, binding identification that others can

and celebrate in. Both testify to

and solidarity to one another.

The person who is baptized and doesn’t intend on

to their old life, is like the person who is married and doesn’t intend on dying to their

. Baptism and marriage have this in common, they both begin at the altar….and the

on that altar is you.

Baptism is a public

where you intentionally reenact your own funeral to self, and marriage to Christ.