The First Obedience Before the Second Ordinance
April 30, 2026
Why Unbaptized Believers Should Wait to Partake of the Lord’s Supper Evangelicals have rightly guarded the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith. We do not baptize people in order to save them. We baptize people because Christ has saved them. Baptism is not the engine of salvation; it is the immediate, public, obedient response […]
Baptism That Saves? Recovering the Urgency Without Losing the Gospel
April 29, 2026
Few phrases in Scripture have stirred as much discussion as “baptism now saves you” (1 Peter 3:21). Add to that the language of the Nicene Creed—“We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins”—and the tension becomes clear. Do these statements teach that baptism itself saves? Or have we, in modern evangelical practice, separated baptism from […]