Why This Church? Believers' Baptism

“I often describe baptism as being a bit like a wedding, because both are places where people make promises in church. And the thing about a wedding is that you’re no more in love after you’ve said ‘I will’ than you were before; and in fact a wedding which is not built on a foundation of already existing love is probably deficient. But nonetheless something changes: the unmarried become married. And so with baptism. At one level nothing changes, faith is already present (and if it isn’t, then the good Baptist in me still wants to argue that something is deficient), and words of commitment spoken before God and a congregation don’t change that. And just as the exchange of rings doesn’t make a marriage, neither does the action of immersion into water make a Christian. But promises and action do still make a difference.”

From a sermon preached at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 3 June 2018.

To listen to the sermon click here:

https://soundcloud.com/bloomsbury-1/why-this-church-believers-baptism

To read the script click here:

http://baptistbookworm.blogspot.com/2018/06/why-this-church-believers-baptism.html