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Spiritual Disciplines within the Church: Participating Fully in the Body of Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a world committed to self-seeking and the thirst for individual rights, it is hard to create a genuine community based on self-sacrifice and mutual commitment—but that is just what the church must do. In Spiritual Disciplines within the Church seminary professor, author, and former pastor Don Whitney shows how the local church can build a sense of community and turn church people from passive...

sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Although the Bible never makes baptism a condition of salvation, it does closely associate the two. Not only is baptism a public identification of the believer with Christ, it symbolizes much that happens in salvation. It is a picture of the cleansing of the believer’s guilt of sin that Christ’s death has accomplished. Baptism represents the death of the person without Christ and the raising of the person to a new life with Christ. It also
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