BAPTIZED ALMOST EVERY WHICH WAY

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19

   When I was born my parents where not Christians, but my mother was religious and attended church. So as an infant I was baptized by a triple sprinkle, the custom for that denomination. By my early teens my parents had become Christians, and we joined a different church denomination, being baptized by a triple pouring. In my later teens we joined a different church denomination practicing single immersion. After marriage, Pat and I joined a church of that same denomination. When we moved to Ohio we joined a Grace Brethren Church and were baptized by triple immersion. I guess I have been baptized almost every which way.

   So many resist trine immersion who have been baptized some other way. We did, too, for several years. What made us change our minds? First was the consistent, authoritative exposition of the Bible at church. If the pastors’ approach to the Bible yielded truth, why did it not apply to baptism? Second, we had occasion to ask our former single immersion pastor about trine immersion. He told us, “That is the Cadillac of baptisms.” So we asked “Then why don’t we do it that way?” He answered, “That just isn’t how we do it.” In other words, tradition supersedes the Bible.

   So we submitted to the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible, and were trine immersed, clearly expressing the truth of the triunity of God that Matthew 28:19 calls for.

   If you have not been trine baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, please reconsider.

Jeffrey Eno