A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Questions about the Word, the Church and the Ordinances

129. Q. What is Baptism?
        A. The dipping of believers into water, as a sign of their union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection.

(Click through to read scriptural proofs.)

• John 3:23

  John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized … .

• Acts 2:41

  So those who received his word were baptized, andthere were added that day about three thousand souls.

• Acts 8:12, 35-38

  But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

  Then Philip opened his mouth, andbeginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 

• Colossians 2:12

  … having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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