WORKBOOK: WHY I AM A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST


Lesson 10
Assignment:   Read section XIX, pages 132-142. Answer the following questions.


    SALVATION--BAPTISM

  1. What two church groups do not require some form of baptism?




  2. Name four prerequisites of Scriptural baptism. Give a Scripture for each one you name.









  3. How does infant baptism reverse this process?



  4. Does the Bible ever speak of "modes" of baptism?     YES     NO


  5. What are the three "modes" of baptism commonly used by modern religious groups?




  6. Where does the Bible say that the one baptized and the one doing the baptizing went down into the water, and then came up out of the water?




  7. Where does the Bible say baptism is a burial?



  8. Where does the Bible say it is resurrection?



  9. Is the word "sprinkle" in the Bible ever used in connection with baptism?     YES     NO



  10. Repeat what John Calvin, founder of the Presbyterian Church, said about baptism.





  11. Repeat what Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran Church, said about baptism.





  12. Repeat what John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church said about baptism.



  13. Explain briefly why Webster's Dictionary defines baptism so as to include sprinkling and pouring as well as immersion.






  14. Who is the first man on record to be baptized by affusion, and when did it occur?



  15. Why was it called "clinical" baptism?



  16. When was sprinkling legalized as baptism?



  17. Name thirteen reasons why one should be baptized and give Scripture for each reason.



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