There is only One Kind of Baptism recognized in the New Testament as an Ordinance of Jesus Christ: Baptism in water.

“There is One Body.”
(Ephesians 4:4.)
…

“There is One Body and One Spirit,
even as you are Called
in One Hope of your Calling;
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism”
Ephesians 4:4, 5.

…

There is One Divinely Instituted
Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD
that JESUS BUILT.
…
“God is not the Author of confusion,
but of Peace,
as in all Churches of the Saints.”
(I Corinthians 14:33.)
…
Jesus Christ Built only One Kind
of Divinely Instituted
Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD.
…
Jesus has only One Kind of Body,
and
THAT Body is HIS

Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD.
…
Jesus’ Divinely Instituted
Church-Assembly Organizations,
that

BRING GLORY TO GOD

have a definite membership,

a definite time and place of meeting,

a definite Organization

with elected officers

( which are Bishops, Elders, or Pastors,
and sometimes Deacons),
and

a definite Program
of Carrying on the Lord’s Work

EXACTLY AS

JESUS COMMISSIONED HER TO DO,
as

“the House of God,
which is the Church of the Living God,
the Pillar and Ground of the Truth,”
(I Tim. 3:1-15.)
…
THE CHURCH JESUS BUILT
was
BUILT BY JESUS CHRIST
as HIS Divinely Instituted
Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD.
…

Those of God’s Children
who are Lead

by The Holy Spirit of God
to Follow The Lord in Scriptural Baptism,

by The Authority of God
Given to a man Sent From God

to Baptize
( John the Baptist )
are Baptized Into One Body.
…
“For also in one Spirit
we all were Baptized into One Body.

..

“And you are a Body of Christ,
and members in particular.”
(I Cor. 12:13, 27, corrected translation.)
…
“For also in one Spirit
( Who is God The Holy Spirit
Leading God’s Children
to be Scripturally Baptized

as members into
THE CHURCH JESUS BUILT
as HIS Divinely Instituted
Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD )
we all were Baptized into One Body.
..

“And you are a Body of Christ,
and members in particular.”
(I Cor. 12:13, 27, corrected translation.)
…
Verse 27 of this quotation …
“ And you are a Body of Christ,
and members in particular”
tells what Kind of Body is meant
in verse 13:
“For also in one Spirit
we all were Baptized

into One Body.”
…
The KIND of BODY
of which the

THE CHURCH JESUS BUILT
as HIS Divinely Instituted
Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD
at Corinth was an example.
…
I Cor. 1:13-17 shows
what Kind of Baptism is meant:
namely,

Baptism in water.
…
In fact,

there is only One Kind of Baptism

recognized in the New Testament
as an Ordinance of Jesus Christ:
“There is One Body and One Spirit,
even as you are Called
in One Hope of your Calling;
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism”
Ephesians 4:4, 5.
…
All other so-called

“baptisms”

mentioned in The New Testament,
other than water Baptism
are figurative or symbolic,
deriving their significance
from this Baptizing in water
to Declare the Death, Burial,
and

Resurrection of Christ
and

all that this means to us.
…
Almost all Christians recognize Baptism,
or some Un-Scriptural substitute for it
“that they call baptism”,

like “sprinkling” or “pouring”,

as a “ordinance”.
…
But if SCRIPTURAL BAPTISM
is a “Church Ordinance”,
then there must always have been
“Churches” to Administer the Ordinance.
…
If the Church to which Jesus
Entrusted the Ordinance of Baptism

passed out of existence as an “institution”,

then the ordinance lapsed
with that “church”,
and
nowhere in the Bible
is anyone authorized

to start it up again.

…

Adapted from:

CHRIST’S CHURCH AND
BAPTISM
By ROSCO BRONG, D.D.