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grace2U writes:
Although we hold to believers' baptism, we will accept into membership those who show clear signs of regeneration but who, having been 'christened' as babies are reluctant to be baptized. This is quite common in England; perhaps not in the USA?
In the U.S.A. and Canada, it is the widespread policy of Baptist churches, spanning all denominations, that ALL who seek membership MUST have been or submit to baptism by immersion. No other mode is recognized as legitimate. Adults who were previously baptized, even as adults, by aspersion or effusion are not qualified for membership. The adamantine fervor which this sectarian policy is held is incredible; the "golden calf" of immersion, despite the fact that it cannot be defended Scripturally.

It's encouraging to know that there are Baptist churches in Great Britain who abide by the scriptural mandate and receive into fellowship all those who give a valid profession of faith and whose lives are commensurate with it. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/BigThumbUp.gif" alt="" />

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