Baptism: A Believer’s Marriage Ceremony is the most compelling book on the subject in recent years. The main thing is her sobering message about the urgency of personal faith and devotion, a call for the revival of the living church in our time.
Following the biblical interpretation of the church as the bride of Christ, F. LaGarde Smith describes baptism as the believer’s marriage to Christ. The result is a new, deeper perspective on baptism that transcends its traditional understanding of submissive obedience or mystical regeneration. By analogy with marriage, baptism is elevated to a personal declaration of love and fidelity, through which true spiritual transformation takes on meaning and life.
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