
Why Baptize Jesus? Why Baptize Us?
Think about it; we have just read that John came “proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins”, but what did Jesus have to repent of?

Think about it; we have just read that John came “proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins”, but what did Jesus have to repent of?

Notice, he doesn’t have to tell his disciples to “let the rich young man come to me.” No one rebuked the man or tried to turn him away…

In our own day, we have a new set of historically unique cultural, political, and technological developments that are driving the spread of the church and the teachings of Christ.

John the baptizer’s sudden appearance comes at a time in history when people had been back in the promised land and waiting for the Jewish Messiah to finally arrive.

The New Testament scriptures were written to people whose entire worldview was saturated with the Hebrew scriptures.

After being asked “who is my neighbor?”, Jesus tells a story that flips the question around and makes us ask “how can I be a neighbor?”