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Craig Blomberg:

I . . . want to insist that, if not normative, believers’ baptism by immersion as soon as feasible after conversion was the normal practice of the New Testament church and it should be ours also. . . .

My concern here is rather the inordinate number of young adults (and a few older ones) I meet these days who seem to think baptism is just no big deal.  And if they weren’t raised in a church that prescribed a certain way for it to be done, they may never have been baptized at all.  And if they have had faith in Christ for many years already, it really seems to them to be unnecessary.  Or, if they do go through with baptism, it is just, they say, “ because Christ commanded it and we need to obey him.”  But they can’t give any particular reason for why he should have commanded it.

You can read the whole thing here.

HT: Scot McKnight

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