Baptism in The Society of Christ

Baptism: Entrance into the Society of Christ
Come Ye Sinners
Come ye sinners poor and needy
Weak and wounded sick and sore
And Jesus ready stands to save you
Full of pity love and power

Come Ye Sinners
Come ye thirsty come and welcome
God’s free bounty glorify
True belief and true repentance
Every grace that brings you nigh

Come Ye Sinners
I will arise and go to Jesus
He will embrace me in His arms
In the arms of my dear Savior
oh, there are ten thousand charms

Come Ye Sinners
Come ye weary, heavy-laden
Lost and ruined by the fall
If you tarry until you’re better
You will never come at all

Come Ye Sinners
I will arise and go to Jesus
He will embrace me in His arms
In the arms of my dear Savior
oh, there are ten thousand

Baptism: Entrance into the Society of Christ
Cohort/Reading
Discussion
• Discuss this week’s reading (Baptism, by Gregg

Allison). What did you learn? What questions do
you have?
Introducing the Sacraments
and Ordinances
• The ordinances are the means by which the church rehearses and practices
the salvific events of the Kingdom of God
• Catholicism and Sacramental Theology
• Defining Sacrament:
• Ex opera operato = from the work worked
• The 7 Sacraments: baptism, confirmation, the eucharist, penance,
marriage, holy orders, & last rights
• How does one receive grace in sacramental theology?
• The Protestant Corrective
• The 2 Ordinances of the Church
• Baptism = Invitation
• Lord’s Supper = Perseverance
Baptism
• Defining Baptism:
• βαπτίζω (baptizo): wash ceremonially for
purpose of purification, wash, purify; to use
water in a rite for purpose of establishing a
relationship with God, plunge, dip, wash,
baptize.
• Covenant Initiation
Baptism in the New
Testament
• Judaism and Proselyte
Baptism
• John the Baptist
• Old Testament Typology
& Baptism in the New
Testament
• The Exodus
• Circumcision
• The flood
Baptism in the Early
Church
• Baptism was the most

meaningful event in the life of
a Christian
• Baptismal Catechesis
“Concerning baptism, baptize as follows: after you have reviewed all
these things [with those who are about to be baptized], baptize “in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” in running
water. But if you have no running water, then baptize into some other
water; and if you are not able to baptize in cold water, then do so in
warm. But if you have neither, then pour water upon the head three times
“in the name of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit.” And before the
baptism, let the one baptizing and the one who is to be baptized fast, as
well as any others who are able. Also, you must instruct the one who is to
be baptized to fast one or two days beforehand.”
–The Didache
The Turn to Paedo
Baptism
• Baptism expands and replaces circumcision
(Abrahamic covenant)
• Infants share in the covenant promises of God
• In Catholicism & Eastern Orthodoxy it removes
the stain of original sin
• Mixed community
The Key Beliefs of Credo
Baptism
• The imperative to baptize

• Repentance and faith
precedes baptism
• Supported by the history of
the early church
Questions
Cohort Discussion
• Do you think you could present a case for infant

baptism in a way that infant baptizers would
recognize?
• How would you teach a paedo-baptist the credo-
baptist position? What Scripture would you use?
What theological assertions would you make?
Baptismal Confession
Leader: Do you renounce the Devil and all the spiritual
forces of wickedness that rebel against God?
All: I renounce them.
Leader: Do you renounce the empty promises and deadly

deceits of this world which corrupt and destroy the
creatures of God?
Leader: Do you renounce the sinful desires of the flesh that

draw you from the love of God?

Baptismal Confession
Leader: Let us profess the rule of our and ascended to the right hand of the
faith Father,
We believe in God, the Father Almighty from where he will come again
Creator of heaven and earth to judge the living and the dead.
We believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, We believe in the Holy Spirit,
our Lord, the holy catholic Church,
He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, the communion of saints,
Born of the Virgin Mary, the forgiveness of sins,
Suffered under Pontius Pilate, the resurrection of the body,
Crucified, dead, and buried. and the life everlasting.
He descended to the dead. Amen.
On the third day, he rose again,
The Mode and Meaning(s)
of Baptism
• Mode
• Immersion
• Pouring
• Sprinkling
• Meaning
• Identified with God
• Identified in a community
• Identified with Christ
• Identified as cleansed
• Identified as escaping
judgment
Baptism and the Drama of
Redemption
• Who is acting in baptism?

• The convert
• The community
• The Triune God
The Symbolic Significance
of Baptism
• An enactment of the gospel

• Union with Christ
• Transfer of loyalties
• Reception of the Holy Spirit
Baptism, Rehearsal, and
Eschatological Orientation
• Baptism orients us to the fall and reminds us of who we are in
Adam
• Baptism orients us to the work of Christ and assures us of his
work on our behalf
• Baptism orients us to the gift of the Spirit and God’s dwelling
among us
• Baptism allows us to practice the truths of the gospel with our new
family, the church
• Baptism allows us to rehearse the true story of the word and helps
us to reject the false stories of the world
• Baptism orients us eschatalogically to the coming Kingdom of
God. We remember forward.
The Powerful Testimony of
Baptism
• The story of Victorinus and Augustine

• Cultivating a spiritual life around baptism
• Consider how you identification in the
humiliation of Christ may be used powerfully in
someone else’s life?
Quesions/Discussion
Cohort Discussion
• What truth signified in baptism (e.g. forgiveness

of sin, reception of the Spirit, resurrection, union
with Christ, new ethical life, etc.) is especially
significant to you?
• Which truth signified do you often de-emphasize
that you need to remember? How does it remind
you of God’s goodness to you in the gospel?

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Baptism: Entrance into the Society of Christ

Come ye sinners poor and needy

Weak and wounded sick and sore

And Jesus ready stands to save you

Full of pity love and power

Come ye thirsty come and welcome

God’s free bounty glorify

True belief and true repentance

Every grace that brings you nigh

I will arise and go to Jesus

He will embrace me in His arms

In the arms of my dear Savior

oh, there are ten thousand charms

Come ye weary, heavy-laden

Lost and ruined by the fall

If you tarry until you’re better

You will never come at all

I will arise and go to Jesus

He will embrace me in His arms

In the arms of my dear Savior

oh, there are ten thousand

• Discuss this week’s reading (Baptism, by Gregg

• Baptism was the most

• The imperative to baptize

• Do you think you could present a case for infant

All: I renounce them.

Leader: Do you renounce the empty promises and deadly

All: I renounce them.

Leader: Do you renounce the sinful desires of the flesh that

All: I renounce them.

• Who is acting in baptism?

• An enactment of the gospel

• The story of Victorinus and Augustine

• What truth signified in baptism (e.g. forgiveness

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