RELIGION IS COMPLICATED, FAITH ISN'T

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Remember Jesus' Great Commission? That we "go and make disciples of all the nations, BAPTIZING them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."

Remember the 3000 that were saved on Pentecost? They were baptized on the SAME DAY they accepted Christ. 

What of the Ethiopian eunuch on his way home from Jerusalem, and the Philippian jailer in charge of Paul and Silas' cell? Both were baptized on the same day they accepted Christ; on the same spot even, in the case of the latter. 

I have been born again since 2008, have rededicated my life to Christ several times after that, yet, all the churches I've ever been to either ignore this commission of having their members baptized, or will not baptize them until they've been made to go through 'baptismal class'es where they are spoonfed nothing but doctrinal sentiments (IMO).

So this is a very bothered believer asking-- why the "senrenren"? Why complicate a simple instruction? Whatever happened to baptizing believers the moment they accept Christ? 

Now I am seriously considering getting baptized by a fellow brother/sister in Christ in a nearby body of water at the next chance I get. I have absolutely zero interest in the bureaucracy that comes with church baptism. 

This is my conclusion: Religion is complicated; Faith isn't. Don't let anyone complicate it for you.

What's your take on this? 

Remain blessed.

25.07.19

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