Pulpit Magazine

(By John MacArthur)
I have often spoken out against all the pragmatic and “seeker-sensitive” approaches to contemporary worship because they tend to diminish the proper place of preaching and replace it with quasi-spiritual forms of sheer entertainment (music, comedy, drama, and whatnot). Any trend that threatens the centrality of God’s Word in our corporate worship is […]

(By Matt Waymeyer)

In paedobaptist teaching, baptism is seen as a mark of divine ownership, a sign and seal given to those who are God’s own possession. When an infant is baptized, not only does he enter God’s covenant family, but “his parents declare that their child belongs to God” (Daniel Doriani). In this way, baptism […]

(By Matt Waymeyer)
The position of infant baptism can be summarized most concisely in just five words: baptism is what circumcision was. In other words, baptism has the same meaning and the same function in the New Testament Church as circumcision did in Old Testament Israel. According to paedobaptist Pierre Marcel:
The New Testament establishes no essential […]

(By Matt Waymeyer)
Perhaps the most common argument for infant baptism is found in the climax of the apostle Peter’s sermon at Pentecost in Acts 2. Peter has just set forth the redemptive work of Jesus (vv. 22–35) and proclaimed that He is both Lord and Christ (v. 36), and his Jewish listeners are cut to […]

(By Matt Waymeyer)
The absence of a direct command to baptize babies would be easier to overlook if the Bible contained clear evidence that the New Testament church practiced infant baptism. After all, what we do not find mandated in Scripture, we sometimes find modeled there. In an effort to support their view, many paedobaptists point […]