Sermon Report

Yesterday's sermon was preached by Christopher Engelsma at Dorr CRC. It was about baptism. This text describes the process of baptism that those who were in a tent where someone had died had to go through to be considered clean again. The process involved mixing a whole bunch of stuff together, including a burned heifer, in water, and baptizing the tent with the mixture. The Baptists usually say that baptism was a completely new thing, but that can't be true at all since baptism was incredibly common in Israel, so common that the New Testament doesn't even bother to give a thorough description of it. So, therefore, baptism is not a new thing. Throughout the Old Testament, baptism was applied many times to many different families, it would be absurd to say that these families had no infants. That is why those of the reformed churches say that baptizing infants is biblical.