Baptism
33 conversations where the hosts get into baptism.
33 conversations
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Is skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee sacrilegious?
- Is skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee sacrilegious?
The hosts debate the hard question: one argues the category of 'sacrilegious' itself is man-made — something is sin or it isn't — and that the congressman's real problem was foolishness, not location (Jesus was in a boat there; it is moving, recycled water).
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Chat questions: what must one do to be saved?
- What must one do to be saved?
- At what point is someone saved?
Reading listener questions from the chat — one host tosses the first to Dan by name — the hosts answer that faith is always the baseline: belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God who died physically and rose physically, since 'demons believe and shudder' too.
From No. 34 · Where Do I Start?
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Dawson: everything feels like a sales pitch
Mike asks Dawson where the church presents community poorly. Dawson: everything feels like a sales pitch now — every invitation defended with ten reasons, which makes people suspicious.
From No. 590 · Theodore Franco
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Baptism Sunday spectacle: mascot, dunk Sunday, inflatables
Ben describes a church advertising a big baptism Sunday complete with a basketball-team mascot, “dunk Sunday,” rides, and inflatables, and asks whether meeting Jesus is really that life-changing or whether churches fluff it up.
From No. 588 · hypokritēs
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The circus quote and responsibility for new believers
Dan cites Mike's youth group in Pleasantville baptizing 17 kids and asks what they are getting people wet for if it does not point them to humble submission to Jesus.
From No. 588 · hypokritēs
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Baptize now: against the baptism-Sunday spectacle
Ben quips “congratulations for getting wet, here's a church T-shirt” about assembly-line baptisms. Dan disliked a recent mass baptism event for feeling manufactured.
From No. 588 · hypokritēs
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The seventeen list, statements one through nine
The hosts burn through the first nine claims: you do not deserve God's love; you were born a sinner (original sin and the baby-baptism tangent); Jesus rescued you from God (from…
From No. 562 · Enter the McCormick II
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Baptism part one: is it necessary for salvation?
Boova lays out his full baptism question: he grasps the symbolism, Jesus's own baptism with John and the heavens opening, the Greek baptizo as taking on the properties of water, and dying to self and rising again in Christ.
From No. 539 · Birdcage
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Dan's baptism framework: age, mode, purpose
Dan Hudson, introduced as representing the more conservative position, says Boova's question carries about two hundred years of church argument.
From No. 539 · Birdcage
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Re-baptism, insurance conversions, and sprinkling
Dan has no problem re-baptizing someone whose first baptism lacked real repentance, comparing understanding Jesus at 25 versus 40, and would do it for the peace it gives.
From No. 539 · Birdcage
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Baptism wrap: public celebration, not a work
Boova thanks the room and says his job now is to go back to the Word, pray, and stay open to the Holy Spirit's direction.
From No. 539 · Birdcage
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Christian Post: what gets your church most excited?
The hosts take up the Christian Post article: after 25 years of church research, the one question that gets people talking is 'what gets your church most excited?'
From No. 524 · Handshakes and Wrongness
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Worried but hopeful: Jesus as King, not a Sunday accessory
A host says he feels both worried and hopeful about comfortable consumers losing their Sunday routine: worried for them, hopeful the destruction of routine exposes the chasm.
From No. 400 · Ineffective Conspiracies and Monday Morning Christians
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Verdict: marrying an unbeliever is a plain bad idea, plus listener letters
After a 'guys on the path' riff, the hosts deliver the verdict: marrying a nonbeliever is simply a bad idea for the marriage and for one's walk with Christ, not a claim of superiority.
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Dan's Zimbabwe revival story
Ben asks Dan — just back from Zimbabwe — to tell the story from a 75-year-old historic church at the center of a mission area, where they held a revival and a vacation Bible school with hundreds of kids.
From No. 596 · Mr. Prayer Closet
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Restoration: Christmas pass, his wife's conversion, baptism, and the move to Colfax
Michael Foreman told Jared to go home for Christmas with no expectations: 'go home and serve your family.'
From No. 569 · Up Late
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Zimbabwe report: walking through the book of Acts
Dan recounts his latest Zimbabwe trip, where he serves as director of development for the Shredzie Christian Children's Village and plugs into Hippo Valley Christian Mission's churches and schools.
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Conversion stories: Boova's Sunday morning and Dan's stealing club
Boova (addressed on air) tells his conversion story in full: living with his girlfriend in his brother's basement, angry at God over his parents' deaths, he woke early one Sunday…
From No. 497 · Nothing More Than Feelings
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Gratitude for what God repairs
A host talks about watching God repair relationships the speaker could never have rebuilt, being thankful to witness four baptisms at church, and how Mike and he once carried the burden of making people meet Jesus — then learning to just watch God work through others.
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Ask the Pastor: Boova's Acts 8 baptism question
- Do people baptized in the name of Jesus still need laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:14-17)?
Ben introduces Ask the Pastor, jokingly sponsored by 1,000 Balloons, and Boova (after an audiobook pitch where he reads the whole novel himself: "God has a plan for this book, and…
From No. 548 · Artificial Holy Spirit Intelligence
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Baptizo, the pickle, and the Ethiopian eunuch
- What does baptizo mean: is the water or the immersion and transformation the important part of baptism?
After a merged handoff ("Go ahead, Gabe"), Gabe argues the dunking symbolizes but doesn't confer: baptizo means immersed, and the second-century Greek pickle recipe shows the word means changed by what you're immersed in, not merely washed.
From No. 548 · Artificial Holy Spirit Intelligence
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God does what he wants: baptisms and hugging awkwardness
After the interview, the hosts riff on water ministries and return to the Hosea theme: God makes examples of people like Ezekiel and Hosea.
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Facebook comments; baptism talk and the bunk beds story
- Should a father be bothered if his kids choose someone else to baptize them?
- Did the Great Commission happen on a mountain?
The hosts read Facebook comments on the list: Bob Cleveland of Pelham, Alabama asks if the Great Commission's 'make disciples, baptize' is for everybody; Charles Totti and David Hay of Hay Automotive (who adds 'quit lying to children about Santa') weigh in.
From No. 280 · Union of Sinners and Saints
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Argue less, witness more; a baptism story
After a joke about settling the Satan question with a thumb war, a host argues that debating fine points of doctrine with other believers is usually a waste of the energy meant…
From No. 34 · Where Do I Start?