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Acts 8:36,38-39
Colossians 2:12
Matthew 28:18-20
1 Corinthians 11:23-28
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John 3:23
Matthew 3:16
Romans 6:3-5
Acts 2:41-42
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Baptism
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We believe that Christian baptism is the single immersion of a believer
in water to show forth a solemn and beautiful emblem of our identification
with the crucified, buried and risen Savior, through Whom we died to sin
and rose to a new life; that baptism is to be performed under the
authority of the local church; and that it is prerequisite to the
privileges of church membership.
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Romans 6:3-5;
"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we
shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:"
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The Lord's Supper
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We believe that the Lord's Supper is the commemoration of His death
until He comes, and should be preceded always by solemn self-examination.
We believe that the Biblical order of the ordinances is baptism first
and then the Lord's Supper, and that participants in the Lord's Supper
should be immersed believers.
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1 Corinthians 11:23-26;
"For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you,
that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took
bread:
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is
my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,
this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye
drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the
Lord's death till he come."
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