69 Q. How does baptism remind you and assure you that Christ’s one sacrifice on the cross is for you personally? A. In this way: Christ instituted this outward washing and with it gave the promise that, as surely as water washes away the dirt from the body, so certainly His blood and His Spirit …
65 Q. It is by faith alone that we share in Christ and all his blessings: where then does that faith come from? A. The Holy Spirit produces it in our hearts by the preaching of the holy gospel, and confirms it through our use of the holy sacraments. 66 Q. What are sacraments? A. …
Jared Wilson writes about the adoption of what he terms ‘baptismal dual practice’. Wilson pastors an independant congregation which has members who represent both what I’ll call the ‘covenant family’ and ‘professing believer’ positions on baptism. As part of a confessing body of churches this issue is not one that we would deal with constitutionally …
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