A Quick and Dirty Argument for Infant Baptism

1. Infants inherit original sin and thus need salvation.
2. Throughout the history of the church several means have been proposed by which the work of salvation can be applied to infants: baptism, salvation for (elect?) infants who die, a gift of adult-like rationality to understand propositional statements about the gospel.
3. The Scriptural, theological, and church traditional support [...]

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Holy What?! Piper on Hero Worship

This post comes to us from guest blogger Kevin Regal and addresses an issue that seems to be particularly problematic in evangelicalism where the movement seems to surround around megapastors and popular leaders. What results is often nothing less than the worship of these leaders which is manifested in name-dropping, autograph-seeking, mimicking preaching styles, and defending one’s hero [...]

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