A church in Oklahoma has decided to table for now discussion about accepting members without baptism. Read the article at:
http://bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=23725
The church's pastor says the concern to change the by-laws was prompted by those who cannot be immersed due to some handicap and those who mistakingly believe that sprinkling is scriptural. I have empathy for the first problem and have myself poured water on a older lady who could not physically get into the baptistry. She greatly desired to be baptized before she died. I have no problem with that. As for the other problem--those who have been sprinkled have not be scripturally baptized, and we should not back up for one moment on that point.
It is a shame that so many of us today want to forget our history.
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