Going Public: Why Baptism Is Required for Church Membership Mark Deckard Packer (1926–2020) served as the

Packer (1926–2020) served as the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College

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Each entry will move readers from understanding to application to reflection and prayer

Going Public: Why Baptism Is Required for Church Membership Mark Deckard Packer (1926–2020) served as theDoes everyone who joins a local church need to be baptized? What should churches that practice believer's baptism do about those who were baptized as infants? This is a live question for many churches today, and it raises a host of other crucial questions: What is the meaning and function of baptism? Does baptism have any inherent relationship to the local church? How do baptism and the Lords Supper fit together? What exactly is church membership? To