The Kingdom of God, Part Thirty-Seven: The Proper Mode of Baptism (Mat. 3)

Summary

Elder Chris McCool preaches on the proper mode of baptism, emphasizing that baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances instituted by Jesus Christ for true believers. He argues that baptism by immersion is the only proper mode, based on the Greek meaning of the word and scriptural examples such as Jesus' baptism and the Ethiopian eunuch's baptism. Baptism symbolizes the believer's identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and is a visual reenactment of the gospel, not a means of grace or a requirement for salvation.