Believer's baptism

But again, they were not in complete agreement with one another.

However, following the adoption of Believer's Baptism by immersion, the Brush Run congregation sought fellowship with neighboring Baptist churches.

In 1815, it entered into an association with the Redstone Baptist Association of Western Pennsylvania.

This arrangement allowed the Campbells and their followers to cooperate with the other Baptistic Christians while continuing to develop their own understanding of New Testament Christianity.

Alexander Campbell increasingly emphasized the recovery of apostolic teachings and organizing as the proper basis for Christian unity.

Consider baptism.

Campbell had rejected infant baptism and embraced believer's baptism by immersion because he believed the But he was not simply inheriting this from the Baptist.

He believed that he was recovering the teachings of the apostles, which is why he's not a pure Baptist in this sense, because he still believed that baptism did something, whereas the Baptists believe that they are doing something.

Um, so-

[laughs] Okay, well, we do what's called believer's baptism here, and we believe that the Scripture teaches, um, the purpose of baptism is to publicly proclaim a commitment that you've made to following Jesus.

And so it's a outwardly expression of something that's taken place inwardly.

And so, um, all the examples that we see, there's a couple we could discuss and argue that- You might say, um, are not true of this, but I, whatever.

But there's a slight qualification there.

Augustine, in his Confessions, tells the story.

He...

He was brought up in a Christian home, but he turned away for a while to Manichaeism, which is a heresy.

I mean, I just

think

in some respects, I have some friends who came from a Church of Christ background where they're like, they're, From what I understand, it's Believers Baptist only.

but also baptismal regeneration, a form of that.