The Importance of Baptism

Mark O'Mara: Why is it that a young man like me in 1996 who grew up in evangelical churches didn't get this? He asks why does mere Christianity, as the sum and total of Christianity, have such appeal for many Christians today. "If Jesus commanded it, I don't understand that we have the authority to edit Jesus," he says. 'I think the question that the essentialist might press on us is whether we should obey everything God did Himself?'