{"id":742,"date":"2009-01-17T15:39:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/baptism-part-1\/"},"modified":"2022-07-14T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:11:49","slug":"baptism-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/baptism-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptism, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaktree.cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OTCC<\/a>, a major part of the message had to do with water baptism as an important part of being a genuine disciple, or follower, of Jesus Christ. I said that if you have not been baptized, then you haven&#8217;t really publicly identified yourself as a Christ-follower. <a href='http:\/\/armourshell.net\/1x7qo1o8727\/'>ingyen kock\u00e1s nyer\u0151g\u00e9pes j\u00e1t\u00e9kok<\/a>  (You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaktree.cc\/audio\/01%20Building%20each%20other%20through%20the%20B.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to the whole message here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Because there are so many questions on this topic, I am going to answer the most common questions through a short series of posts. In this series we&#8217;ll explore these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is baptism?<\/li>\n<li>What is baptism <strong>not<\/strong>?<\/li>\n<li>Who can \/ should be baptized?<\/li>\n<li>When should a person be baptized?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is baptism?<\/h3>\n<p>Our English word &#8220;baptism&#8221; is really nothing more than a transliteration (a letter-for-letter exchange) of the Greek word <em>baptisma<\/em>. Basically, instead of using one of our English words to explain the meaning of their word, we just brought their word into our language.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that has caused all sorts of problems in understanding what it means. <a href='https:\/\/acoser.com\/ztix28d6h\/'>bukm\u00e9ker jelent\u00e9se<\/a>  As a result, different churches baptize people of different ages in different ways for different reasons. <a href='http:\/\/feinesichuankueche14.at\/gfmgia5cmj\/'>hivatalos fogad\u00f3iroda<\/a>  Can we all be right?<\/p>\n<p>There are three things that we need to know about baptism that we can learn from the word itself and from its usage by Jesus&#8217; followers who spoke the Greek language:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is there a proper method for Christian baptism?<\/li>\n<li>What is the significance of water baptism?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We will explore the answers to these in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/baptism-part-2\">Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at OTCC, a major part of the message had to do with water baptism as an important part of being a genuine disciple, or follower, of Jesus Christ. I said that if you have not been baptized, then you haven&#8217;t really publicly identified yourself as a Christ-follower. ingyen kock\u00e1s nyer\u0151g\u00e9pes j\u00e1t\u00e9kok (You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-baptism"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"widget-thumbnail":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel Goepfrich","author_link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/author\/dgoepfrich\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Last week at OTCC, a major part of the message had to do with water baptism as an important part of being a genuine disciple, or follower, of Jesus Christ. 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