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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,...

church are—without any ifs, ands, or buts—sons and daughters of our heavenly Father, objects of his loving care and discipline. Jesus is no longer present in his personal body, but the church is—without any ifs, ands, or buts—his corporate body. Jesus is still available to the world through the church. Jesus and the church form one thing—“Christ” (1 Cor 12:12), what Augustine called “the whole Christ” (Latin, totus Christus). Jesus acts through us by his Spirit, making us his hands, feet, eyes, ears,
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