DO BAPTISTS TEACH THAT BAPTISM IS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION?
Thats a good introduction to the topic of Baptism, because I have had many thoughtful people say to me, Dont you Baptists add something to Jesus atoning death on the cross, if you say that only baptised believers can be saved? I generally surprise them. I agree that adding baptism would take away from the finished work of Christ. But then I hit them with the old onetwo punch, and say, But we Baptists dont believe that baptism is essential to salvation. We believe that Jesus has done everything we need to be saved, and all anyone has to do is repent and believe in his atoning death. When I was about 22 or 23, my father got a shock. Every year, I went to Beach Mission at Eden. Our team leader was Peter Kilkeary who had been a member of Fairfield Baptist Church. His wife, Joy, was the cook, Gwen Betts from Fairfield Baptist was on the team, and so was my brother, Stephen. My father assumed that Beach Missions were a Baptist thing. He got quite a shock to discover that David and Margaret C
