Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

This week, the crew sprinkles us with knowledge as they take on the sacrament of baptism.

What will these three recovering Baptists have to say about pedobaptism, our role in the covenant community, and most importantly, bathtub baptism?

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Sinclair Ferguson about the modern trajectory of baptism.

Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

Well, it's great to be with my friends Carl and Amy once again today.

We're in a secret bunker somewhere outside of

Washington, D.C. on the Virginia side, which is the best part of the area. And we've just been talking

a little bit about baptism and just some kind of funny baptism stories. There are, by the way,

funny baptism stories. And Carl, I thought you heard something quite interesting from an acquaintance of yours.

Why don't you share that real quick?

Yeah, I don't have many acquaintances who are former pastors of large evangelical churches.

But one of them was telling me just recently, actually, about a strange incident at the church which he used to pastor at, where a lady in his congregation actually baptized somebody in their bathtub.

That's crazy.

That's crazy.

You're a recovering, like I am, to some extent, recovering Baptist, Todd.

Why do you think that's crazy?

Wow. Well, let's see.

So for just a layperson, for her to take somebody to the bathroom in her home and baptize in the bathtub,

that sounds ludicrous, although there is evidence that such

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