“Traditioning” in the Vineyard: A Pastoral Value for Sacramentality.

“Traditioning” in the Vineyard: A Pastoral Value for Sacramentality.

Below is a copy of the paper I presented at the 2017 Society of Vineyard Scholars’ annual gathering (PDF can be found here). I essentially argue that sacramentality is essential for Vineyard theology and praxis, especially the regular celebration of Communion....
Four Simple Reasons Why We Baptize Infants

Four Simple Reasons Why We Baptize Infants

Our congregation celebrates an ancient Christian practice called paedobaptism or in non-technical terms infant baptism. A majority of Christians around the world practice infant baptism. Some churches teach that this practice of infant baptism saves a child by...

The Playground of Heavenly Reality: Pneumatological Sacramentalism

My early Christian experience was largely in church traditions that were about as far from any form of sacramentalism that one could get. Our family attended churches within the Evangelical and Charismatic movements, none of which ever used the word “sacrament.”...

Changing Views on Baptism Requires Deep Reflection

There’s a really good blog by Gavin Ortlund at the Gospel Coalition titled, “Why I Changed My Mind About Baptism.” Ortlund lays out why he went from being an evangelical paedobaptist, affiliated with Presbyterians, to becoming a credobaptist....

Grudem on the Necessity of Baptism

Now I realize that the concept of Justification and Salvation and Baptism carry a lot of theological “baggage” because, depending upon the tradition you come from, those terms may mean different things. But as a convinced Reformed Protestant Baptistic...