Question: Mr. McLemore, I think it is ridiculous that some churches make such a big deal about baptism. What’s that got to do with what kind of person I am?

Answer: The more I study the scriptures relative to baptism, the more significance I see in it, and the greater is my awareness that it is an extremely misunderstood subject. Briefly, baptism is the experience, through faith, by which the believer passes from death to life, is born of God, receives forgiveness, enters into relationship with Christ, and becomes a child of God (please read Romans 6:1-7; Colossians 2:12; John 3:1-8; Titus 3:5; Acts 2:38; Galatians 3:26, 27; 1 Peter 3:21, 22; Hebrews 10:22). What most people do not understand about it: that it is not a human work, and that though it has symbolic meaning (represents spiritual realities), it is ordained of God whose wisdom deemed it necessary to experience it and all it represents in order to be his (along with all that entails). It was God who made such a big deal about it, and it is our task to take his word for its importance.