Some churches that work hard to get people to “make a decision for Christ” never get around to baptizing them! In fact, there are some ostensibly Christian bodies that don’t baptize at all. And more that will baptize if someone asks for it, but most members don’t go to the trouble. And according to Christian scholar Roger Olson, “one Texas megachurch pastor reported that nearly a third of the people who receive Christ in his church are never baptized. ”
Apparently, in churches that teach “believers baptism,” some believers, having been taught that baptism is nothing more than a symbolic ritual, are too embarrassed to submit themselves to getting dunked in front of everybody. And those believers and the churches they are members of do not seem to believe in what the Bible says about baptism.
I realize that there are many different theologies about baptism, but surely no one can deny that Jesus commanded that it be done. The Great Commission, which so many of these non-baptized megachurches generally make a big deal of, is a commission to baptize (Matthew 28:19-20).
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