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You win’em, you baptize ’em.

I’m wondering if any of you go to a church where it is the custom, generally, for the one who wins someone to Christ to baptize them, or does ‘clergy’ have to do the baptizing.

It’s interesting to look at who actually baptizes other people in water in the Bible.
– apostles
– a deacon and evangelist (Philip)
– a disciple (Ananias)

I can’t find a passage where ‘the pastor’ or someone called ‘an elder’ baptized. Of course, they fall into the ‘disciple’ category.

What do you think fo the idea of having individuals in the congregation evangelize, baptize, and disciple people as a way to get them to fulfill the great commission?

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4 comments

  1. The clergy had hijacked the sacraments for many centuries now.

  2. Kim Borders says:

    If you really stop and think about it nothing we do in church shadows “as it is in Heaven “. I think your last paragraph nailed it, this is the way it should be done, but good luck getting those who are glued to the pew to budge.

  3. Charles Page says:

    many pastors do the baptizing because if they let others baptize then the ones baptized will look to the baptizer as their leader.

    They are insecure

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