Baptism - Romans 6:1-5
To see the full message, scroll to the bottom. So what happens when we get bapti sed? What happens to someone when they go through that experience? To address that question, I want to first define a couple of words : sacrament and ord inanc e. When Christ ians use th e word sacrament , they’re describing something that we do , and that is endowed by God with transformative power. Our spiritual condition — our spiritual state — is changed simply by doing it . An ordinance is something that Jesus commanded us to do , and when we do it, it is an expressive act. We act in response to Jesus ’ command . In doing it, we open ourselves not to a transformative power of the act itself, but to the transformative power of the H oly S pirit. For example, some church traditions see eucharist as a sacrament; the bread and wine themselves are imbued with power to impact us spiritually. In B aptist churches we believe that the...