Makes you wonder why some wait for the next Sunday service to "come forward"!

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From: "Glenn E" <glenne1949@...>
Sender: ChristianIssuesForum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:47:31
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Subject: [ChristianIssuesForum] The URGENCY for baptism

The NECESSITY for baptism has been well established by command, approved
example, and necessary inference, especially in Acts in the six conversion
examples there. But in addition, the URGENCY, (as well as the NECESSITY) for
baptism has been established here in at least two of these examples. And that
also by example and necessary inference.

-Annanias told Saul "why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptized and wash away thy
sins," and

-Paul and Silas took the jailer "the same hour of the night and baptized him."
Why the urgency?

"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Life is uncertain. Dying
without being baptized risks loss of eternal life. This must have been in the
thinking of both Paul (Saul) and the jailer, persuading them to be baptized
immediately.

The failure to mention URGENCY makes baptism seem less important, ignores the
Scriptural command to be baptized immediately, and risks the soul.



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