Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

Baptism into Christ (part III)

December 31st, 2010
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Sinner’s Prayer? 1 Peter 3:21

• Some claim that a person needs only to pray a “sinner’s prayer” or “ask Jesus into his/her heart” in order to be saved.
• This is the predominant view in the evangelical Christian world. However, this is not the message that was preached in the Book of Acts.
• Everyone was called to repentance, faith and baptism, and as Peter wrote here, “baptism now saves us” by the resurrection of Christ from the dead.

Acts 22:7-16

• After encountering Jesus, repenting, praying, fasting (Acts 9:9-11), being healed, and being called by God,
  Paul remains in sin.
• What was left for him to do?
• Why the urgency - what is so pressing about the need for baptism?
• What remains for you to do or think about before you are ready to be united with Christ in baptism?

Finish picture - The benefits of salvation made available at the cross become real for us when we participate in his death, burial and
resurrection.
Key Phrase: Everyone is called to repentance, faith and baptism

Notes from: First Principles by Various.