Word: baptism
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...Heard cheering statistics on the march of world Baptism. Since the London conference five years ago, the World Alliance has added nine member churches from five countries-India, Honduras, Malaya, Formosa and Lebanon-and total mem bership has risen 16%, from 20,000,000 to 23,176,373, including a 35% increase in Latin America. Some 14,000 Baptist missionaries are making converts at the rate of 500,000 a year...
...Paul pointed to Jesus' consistent opposition to the tyranny of the Torah ("The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath"). Faith in Christ, plus baptism, rather than rites and observances, he maintained, is all that is necessary. This teaching greatly appealed to the Gentiles, who were interested in a religion of personal salvation rather than the national salvation hoped for by Judaism. As Paul and Barnabas made more and more converts, opposition to them began to grow among the conservative Jewish Christians, who were shocked to find communities calling themselves Christian whose members were uncircumcised...
They accuse the baptized Jesus of heresy for teaching that baptism may be performed with water that is not flowing...
Brazen Chariots, by Robert Crisp. For the men of the tank corps, the baptism of fire was often a requiem. They have at last received a literary citation from a gallant South African major in the British army, who was himself wounded fighting against Rommel...
...like the ritual with its solemnity and color." Even the Communist Party had to agree that Soviet weddings could hardly be more drab. Izvestia, carried away with the monotony of it all, even offered prizes for those who could think up elaborate and colorful rituals to substitute for Christian baptism, a coming-of-age ceremony that would correspond to confirmation, and a new wedding ritual...