Neither is it done for us to be saved, for salvation is only by grace through faith. When we receive salvation, however, we will naturally want to be baptized. Baptism comes from the Greek word ...

Just as Christ was buried stained with our sin and risen glorified, we too are buried in water as we are baptized declaring that we now arise as new creation. Romans 6:4 tells us, "We were buried ...

Photo: Adobe Stock Christians are saved by faith and grace alone. However, Jesus taught that one must be born again to enter heaven. Does the ultimate answer come from faith in Christ, or is there a ...

To be in Christ is to enjoy the blessings of the Christian life. Baptism puts one into a relationship with Jesus Christ, which those yet outside of Christ do not have. Ephesians 1:3 says, “Blessed be ...

Pope Leo XIV reminds young catechumens and neophytes that we are not born Christians but become so through baptism, at which ...

Objectively in baptism, our sins are removed, we are adopted by God the Father, and we are incorporated into the Church, the Body of Christ.

The only way revealed in the Bible for one to get into Christ is by being baptized in water (Acts 8:36), in the name of Christ for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38), washing them away (Acts 22:16).

We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life" (Romans 6:3-4).

Two ritual observances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, are maintained by members of the Church of Christ irrespective of their denomination or of their personal spiritual maturity.

He called Israel out of the Promised Land to repent and be ritually baptised. Then they would cross westward, back into the Promised Land, as their forefathers had done with Joshua” (The Luminous ...