Are there different ways to become a Christian?

Do children raised in a Christian family have an advantage?

What's the role of baptism in the process?

We're going to hear the answers to those questions today on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is concluding a message titled The Baptism Debate.

Baptism remains a controversial subject.

But tragically and unnecessarily so Christians are often divided over the issue.

I decided what I would do is I would quote to you from people that I admire living

or dead so that we would allow, if you like, a good evangelical proponent of the view

to speak concerning the view in order that we would not be setting up in any way a straw

man and then being able to tear it down.

It's relatively easy to do that in argument and in debate.

Many of you are familiar with that and it's a very helpful way to go because it creates

all kinds of impressions most of which are absolutely wrong.

I should just mention something that crosses my mind as well.

One of the things that I always say to my Presbyterian friends is, okay, given that that is

true of infant baptism and that baptism as a sign brings these children of a Christian

home within the framework and orb of the church.

I always say to them, how does that differ from my kids?

Does it mean that since many of our children are running around here this morning, the

thousand plus of them that are all over the building in the hours of this day that somehow

or another in some tenuous position?

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