religious experience. Some groups sprinkle children when they are small. This cultural religious form or any other form by other denominations is not an essential component of the gospel message. In the James passage we come to understand that a saving faith that restores a broken relationship with God involves a commitment to act on that faith in a positive manner toward Christ. RECEIVING CHRIST What does it take to have the Son? John said that we must receive Jesus. “Yet to all who received him,
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