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Do You Believe? You’ve been baptized. But do you understand what it means? Baptism is the doorway into membership in the church. It’s a public declaration of the washing away of our sin and the beginning of our new life in Christ. But the sacrament that is meant to unite us is often a spring of division instead. All Christians use water to baptize. All invoke the triune name. Beyond that,...

Baptism doesn’t just picture an announcement. Baptism announces. It doesn’t portray preaching; it preaches. Prophets compared the coming kingdom to a bursting spring of living water (Isa 44:3), a flood of gentiles bearing gifts (Isa 66:12), a cleansing fountain (Zech 13:1). As baptismal water gushes across the globe, God declares these promises fulfilled. Baptism is the gospel, good news from a distant land (Prov 25:25).12 Baptism preaches because it’s God’s work. Baptism isn’t simply water, nor
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