By Brad Isbell
Something that should have been included in my piece on worship issues in the PCA (as an example sacramental deviations) is the growing comfort with/affinity for baptism by immersion among ministers. The PCA BCO only mentions pouring and sprinkling, and WCF 28.3 says “Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring, or sprinkling water upon the person.”
The questions are: Why would you not want to use the best (right) mode and why would you want multiple modes…how does that build unity? Further, immersion (in most churches) would disrupt normal worship by requiring troughs to be brought in, the service to be moved to another building or next to a body of water, or to a home with a pool or <shivers> hot tub! Just say no.
Don’t be like these Methodists:
Didn't Luther say he preferred dunking?