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During the morning service on Sunday, October 30, 2005, 33 Kyle Lake, pastor of University Baptist Church (Texas), was electrocuted when he accidentally touched a mic stand water at chest height in the baptistry of the church. The person who was about to plunge escaped unharmed. Despite CPR 40 minutes, Kyle was pronounced dead at the nearest hospital at 11:30

Some may react with news of this tragedy wonder why someone would baptistery, in the first place. Why baptize someone these days? And if we do baptized, why not use the spray? Baptism by immersion is too complicated and time consuming. Why bother, when a few drops on the forehead will do as well? A wipe with a towel and go! Writing is, and do not need cleaning.

Immersion in the original mode

Almost no one denies that immersion - not sprinkling or pouring - was the original mode of baptism. The Bible says clearly in two passages: John 3:23 and Acts 8:38-39. Enon, was a good place to baptize, because there was water in abundance there. Both Philip and the Ethiopian "water down "and" mushy. "(See also Mark 1:10 and parallels).

original symbolism confirms immersion

This mode is lawful spiritual significan Bible. When submerged, it is obvious to everyone that you take a bath. Do not bother to take a bathroom unless you are very, very dirty. Again and again, the Bible speaks of sin as pollution (Numbers 35:33, Ezra 9:11; Facts 15:20, Jacques 1:27, Jude 8). It is a moral filth (Proverbs 30:12, Isaiah 4:4, 64:6, Zechariah 3:3-4, Col. 3:8, Jacques 1:21, Apocalypse 17:4). Contaminated body and mind (2 Corinthians 7:1). It is a task that must be washed (Jeremiah 2:22, Jude 23). It affects the whole person, and only a total cleaning of the relationship with the person will do.

Beyond this picture of a bathroom, baptism also pictures from a funeral. This is a reconstitution of the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Savior (Romans 6:3-4, Colossians 2:12-13). When someone dies, how do you bury? Did you sprinkle a little earth on the forehead, or completely covers?

Symbolic "before" and "after"

This symbolism has its "before" and "after" connotations. Just like people have forgotten the original symbolism of the mode of baptism, even have lost sight of the place of baptism as the transition point between the dirt and moral purity, and between death and spiritual life. Before I polluted myself wash the blood of Christ.

This is confirmed by the experience of Paul to wash their sins in baptism, he invoked the name of the Lord (Acts 22:16). He calls it "the washing of water by the word" (Ephesians 5:26) and "The washing of regeneration" (Titus 3:5). (Note that the first two and the second of these three passages of the confession of the believer in Christ the Savior, empowering the symbol.)

Before I am dead in sin (Ephesians 2:01, Colossians 2:13), and then gave me life in Christ (Colossians 2:12). Of course, there is nothing magical about water. Its power is faith in Christ's cross and resurrection (Romans 6:4-7). In Colossians 2:12 says, "... having been buried with Him through baptism and resurrection with Him through faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead. "My eyes are on him, not me. My faith is in the cross, not the ritual.

Affirming the purpose of baptism and how they

Everyone is committed to the relevance of Scripture is also committed to immersion as the only appropriate means baptism. They also reaffirm the biblical teaching, not just on their way, but its purpose. We teach and to practice immersion of believers in water sorry for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:39) because of the death and resurrection of Christ.

We can reduce the risk of electrocution by using wireless microphones, but must not reduce or distort biblical meaning of this God-ordained rite. Pray for Kyle's family and all who met him and are devastated by this loss.