Did you just accept Christ as your Lord and Saviour? Do you have any questions about what to do next? Are you wondering if you need to be baptized? Or you have been baptized without really understanding what it meant, and would you like to have a deeper understanding of it?
Join us for a 6-week journey where we will have an in-depth discussion on water baptism. So here how it works.
- Sign up in the contact form, tell us your name, email address, your location (including time zone), and your preferred meeting time.
- We will contact you to agree on the starting date and meeting time every week
Once we agree on the date and time, we will meet every week for an hour to go through the topic, introduce you to the background reading you may need to do in the coming week, and run through some questions to guide the discussion or other questions.
Simple, isn’t it? Looking forward to discussing this with you.
- Baptism of repentance
Table of contents: -Background -Is John’s baptism God’s prescribed way of doing it? -Repentance -Symbolism of water in the Old Testament -Baptism in the New Testament -Alive in Christ -Frequently asked questions on the baptism of water Background The baptism of water was first preached by John the Baptist, as recorded by all the four Gospels (Matthew 3, Mark 1, Luke 3, John 1). John was baptizing the people who came to him and repented of their sins, from all over Judea and the regions surrounding the river Jordan, an area covering approximately 5500 km2. Given that John could have begun his ministry about a year or two before Jesus did, many people must have been baptized during this time. We also see that people of all kinds and backgrounds came to the Jordan River to be baptized by John, as Luke 3:10-14 gives accounts of tax collectors and soldiers (probably Roman, as Israel was under Roman authority at the time). John’s ministry, which Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 40:3-4 in the Old Testament (nearly 700 years prior), came after a prolonged hiatus known as the ‘inter-testamental’ period of 400 years in Israel’s history. During this dark time, the Jews faced great challenges. They had lost their kingdom and were now under the rule of the Roman empire, financially being overburdened by high taxes and widespread corruption among the tax collectors, and religiously challenged by pagan religions and traditions. To top it all, there was an intentional period of silence from God due to the wickedness and the unfaithfulness of their ancestors. The people were weary, burdened, spiritually bankrupt and were desperately searching for hope and restoration.