{"id":35247,"date":"2021-06-11T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=35247"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:47:49","slug":"whats-in-the-water-baptism-as-a-sign-of-addition-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=35247","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in the Water?: Baptism as a Sign of Addition (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: 9Marks is not just a ministry for credobaptist churches. We exist to serve paedobaptist churches, too. Nonetheless, we recognize that most of our readers are probably credobaptists. So we though it might be helpful to demonstrate how to teach those churches about baptism. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What follows is how one pastor began to teach his church. Even if you don&#8217;t agree on every single point, as we ourselves may not, we think you&#8217;ll find much useful material\u00a0here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the third part in a three-part series. You can read Part 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/whats-in-the-water-combatting-superstition-and-sentimentalism-with-scripture\/\">here<\/a> and Part 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/whats-in-the-water-baptism-as-a-sign-of-the-new-covenant-part-2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*****<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A certain headline recently caught my attention: \u201cUtah monolith: Helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith deep in the desert.\u201d What was this all about?<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, way out in the desert, a few scientists discovered a triangular structure of polished metal. Its clean edges rose out of the ground some ten feet. Clearly, it didn\u2019t belong there, but where was it from? As if from another world entirely, that triangular structure proved that someone was up to something.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s kind of like what the church is in the world. It\u2019s a picture of a similarly beautiful and otherworldly structure. Here\u2019s how Luke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Word led to baptism, which led to a defined worshiping community, and as people were baptized, they were \u201cadded\u201d to that community. That\u2019s what Luke is teaching us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[327],"class_list":["post-35247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-life-together","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35249,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35247\/revisions\/35249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}