Page 2 2 Copyright 2007 Present Testimony Ministry – www.ptmin.org Good Faith Agreement–Please Read This eBook is a transcribed message that Frank delivered to a house church in St. Augustine, Florida on April 22, 2007. This message is suited for all house churches, simple churches, organic churches, and emerging churches who are rethinking the meaning and practice of church. We have converted it into a free eBook so that it can be distributed far and wide. We simply ask that as a good faith agreement, you pass the following link on to others in any form you wish–especially those who gather in the above types of churches–so that they can download the book for themselves: www.ptmin.org/bethany.htm
[Baptism by immersion is] the usual form of the original meaning of the Greek baptidzein and baptismos; from the analogy of John’s baptism in the Jordan; from the apostle’s comparison of the sacred rite with the miraculous passage of the Red Sea, with the escape of the ark from the flood, with a cleansing and refreshing bath, and with burial and resurrection; finally, from the general custom of the ancient church, which prevails in the East to this day.
Philip Schaff