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Does everyone who joins a local church need to be baptized? What should churches that practice believer's baptism do about those who were “baptized” as infants? This is a live question for many churches today, and it raises a host of other crucial questions: What is the meaning and function of baptism? Does baptism have any inherent relationship to the local church? How do baptism and the Lord’s...

God in order to discern and describe its ecclesial shape—that is, its intrinsic connection to local church membership. As I hope to demonstrate, baptism does have an ecclesial shape, and that shape is decisive for how we relate baptism to church membership. After these two chapters we’ll consider the ecclesial shape of the Lord’s Supper and then flip the telescope around to examine the baptismal (and eucharistic) shape of the relation we call church membership. Most everyone in this debate would
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