What the Lord and His Apostles Taught

Before we look at what the church did, and before we face the common objections, we have to hear what the Lord and His apostles actually taught. That is where every honest inquiry must begin: what has God said? In the five chapters of this part, we trace that teaching from Christ’s parting command, to His conversation with Nicodemus, to the nature of baptism itself, to the several uses of the word in Scripture — and finally to the apostles’ own letters, where the command is unfolded and applied to the churches they founded.