Kentucky Baptists are celebrating a surge in baptisms with 12,654 reported during the past reporting year (ending March 15).

Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public life after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.

The celebration of baptism is a way of showing that this belief exists, and the person wishes to be totally committed to the will of God. In the Baptist Church only believers are baptised by full ...

The most important argument for believer’s baptism comes from the writings of the Apostle Paul in Romans 6: Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised ...

to make oneself pure ... to be right with God. John the Baptist, of course, is known for having practiced baptism. But then, so did lots of other people. We hear of other groups around this time ...