The Importance of Baptism in the Reformed Church

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The whole idea of circumcision was cutting off a piece of the flesh in order to save the whole person. In Colossians, Paul says that he was circumcised wholly, completely cut off so that we wouldn't have to be. But what's different is, at least for the Reformed, is fuller eschatological age. Christ has come by his spirit, baptizing people into himself so they die to sin and rise with Christ.

From his own baptism by John the Baptist to his last commission to his followers to go and make disciples from all nations, Jesus’s ministry is marked by this sacrament. But what does it mean? What are its biblical origins? And who should receive it? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss the traditional Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, and Reformed views on the sacrament of baptism.