A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Questions about the Word, the Church and the Ordinances

130. Q. What is the purpose of baptism?
        A. Baptism testifies to believers that God has cleansed them from their sins through Jesus Christ.

(Click through to read scriptural proofs.)

• Acts 22:16

  And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.

• Colossians 2:11-14
  

  In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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