Word: baptisme
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...turned to me. “Why don’t you drive?” It was more of a command than a request. Before I could respond, he had hopped out of the car and run around to the passenger side. Talk about “baptism by fire.” I climbed over to the driver’s seat and buckled...
...arguing between them, and after many bitter monologues, the two seem ready to accept the fact that although neither of them are perfect, they both need each other. The play ends on a relatively positive note as they both contemplate the wonder of the ocean, indicating a kind of baptism or re-birth...
...then there were radical free-lancers like Jesus. Up until 20 years ago, it was left to Jewish analysts to present Jesus' various messages--of inner purity over legal adherence; of baptism; of messianism; of the expectation of God's kingdom on earth--as growing out of various 1st century Jewish beliefs. But lately, says Chilton, more Christian scholars have scuttled the idea that Jesus' Judaism was mere "ethnic happenstance." He argues, "If you were to take the elements of Jesus' position in isolation, each would [recall] the practice of a certain type of Judaism. He is distinctive...
...That became the night of my baptism," she added...
...worked through the government to place Christian workers. A more secretive division burrowed underground, with missionaries posing as teachers, doctors or business executives. These covert missionaries?many were married couples?sometimes focused on acquiring a single convert. That convert would take communion in the couple's kitchen and receive baptism in the bathroom. At that point, the apartment could be considered a church and the couple could return to the U.S. and announce that they had established an underground church in communist China, a compelling story for their congregations. "It can sound like the Westerners risked their lives?they...