All right, so we're going to go back and forth on some follow-up questions here. Kendra asked oh, this is regarding the recording. There will be a recording after this. Next is from Sean Tanner. Should a person be baptized if he doesn't agree with the church for the sake of being baptized?
I think it's maybe asking basic he's maybe asking if I can't get if I can't if I'm the only church community near me I can't be united with should I go ahead and get baptized anyways out of the conviction for baptism is maybe what he's asking. Well, OK, yeah, I wasn't quite certain what he meant. But if he means, do I need to get baptized? Even though the church I'm a member of, I don't agree with all of their teachings and they have some wrong teachings. I would say yes, get baptized.
Now, if you're in a position, obviously, to move somewhere and be part of a church where you're more in agreement, that might be better. But you may not be in that position, particularly if you're a minor. And yeah, I would not put off baptism to wait to be in a church where maybe there are a little bit more in accord with scriptural practices on things. I would personally, once I was ready to commit my life to Jesus Christ and I had that faith, I would want to get baptized then.
Again, he is the minister of baptism, not the bishop of that church or whoever it is. I mean, that person acts as an agent, but it's Jesus Christ who makes it valid, not that particular church. Yeah. Amen. And one thing I really appreciate about baptism is that we're being baptized into the body of Christ. So while we might have some conflicts with a local church or with church, as far as a group of people, to recognize that you can't separate the two.
When you're baptizing into the body of Christ, you're being baptized into the church and to seek out that fellowship if you can't find it locally. But don't delay baptism any more than you have to.
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