Should I leave my home Church if they believe in Baptism Regeneration ?

[QuestionQuest74]

My church believes in baptism regeneration and I believe we get our salvation in Jesus alone but everything else in their doctrine i agree with. Should I leave just for this part in their doctrine

 

[sandman]

My church believes in baptism regeneration and I believe we get our salvation in Jesus alone but everything else in their doctrine i agree with. Should I leave just for this part in their doctrine

Where would you go if you left ?

Unless you have some place in mind that perfectly aligns with the written Word ….you may just be trading one erroneous doctrine for another .... or several other.

 

[QuestionQuest74]

Where would you go if you left ?

Unless you have some place in mind that perfectly aligns with the written Word ….you may just be trading one erroneous doctrine for another .... or several other.

So I should stay ?

 

[tampasteve]

If that is the only issue you have with the church in question then I would probably stay. It is a pretty essential doctrine, but also probably not one discussed often. It may be that you can be a weekly attender but not a member, but that is something to discuss with the pastor/minister.

 

[sandman]

So I should stay ?

I may point out certain things and sometimes make suggestion …but I don’t make decisions for others ….that is between you and God.

Additionally, I don’t know what “home church” means …to me …that means you meet in a home (as I do) which, if that is the case, I would have some other suggestion for you.

 

[bling]

Where can you do the most good?
Everyone must continue to grow, so no one is at the same spot in their Spiritual growth.
I look at the problems five of the seven Churches in Revelations had, yet they still had the candlestick at the time, so I would need to be attending there, is your "home church" worse than those churches?

 

[NewLifeInChristJesus]

My church believes in baptism regeneration and I believe we get our salvation in Jesus alone but everything else in their doctrine i agree with. Should I leave just for this part in their doctrine

I would leave. If they get salvation wrong, there's no telling what else they get wrong. And you might agree with them on other things that are wrong.

 

[QuestionQuest74]

I may point out certain things and sometimes make suggestion …but I don’t make decisions for others ….that is between you and God.

Additionally, I don’t know what “home church” means …to me …that means you meet in a home (as I do) which, if that is the case, I would have some other suggestion for you.

Wrong choice of words im a member of that church that believes in baptism regeneration.

 

[QuestionQuest74]

Where can you do the most good?
Everyone must continue to grow, so no one is at the same spot in their Spiritual growth.
I look at the problems five of the seven Churches in Revelations had, yet they still had the candlestick at the time, so I would need to be attending there, is your "home church" worse than those churches?

The church is better than most surrounding churches.

 

[QuestionQuest74]

I may point out certain things and sometimes make suggestion …but I don’t make decisions for others ….that is between you and God.

Additionally, I don’t know what “home church” means …to me …that means you meet in a home (as I do) which, if that is the case, I would have some other suggestion for you.

What would you do in my situation.

 

[ViaCrucis]

My church believes in baptism regeneration and I believe we get our salvation in Jesus alone but everything else in their doctrine i agree with. Should I leave just for this part in their doctrine

I don't know what kind of church you go to, but the historic churches which believe in baptismal regeneration believe our salvation is in Jesus alone. Baptism is, from the historically Christian perspective, a means of grace--it is God's grace, power, and work to give us Christ. In whom and by whom alone is our salvation.

What is it your church teaches about baptism that makes you think they don't agree with salvation in Jesus alone?

-CryptoLutheran

 

[QuestionQuest74]

I don't know what kind of church you go to, but the historic churches which believe in baptismal regeneration believe our salvation is in Jesus alone. Baptism is, from the historically Christian perspective, a means of grace--it is God's grace, power, and work to give us Christ. In whom and by whom alone is our salvation.

What is it your church teaches about baptism that makes you think they don't agree with salvation in Jesus alone?

-CryptoLutheran

They save baptism is needed in order to be saved.

 

[ViaCrucis]

They save baptism is needed in order to be saved.

Explain that further.

I'll offer an example:

I grew up in a church that practiced "believer's baptism", and even though I've always believed in Jesus, I didn't receive baptism until I was 17 years old. So by your church's teaching, would they say that if I got hit by a car the day before I was supposed to receive baptism I would have gone to hell?

-CryptoLutheran

 

[ViaCrucis]

Most of the members in my church would not think the new believer is going to hell.

So the position is that God uses baptism in His work to bring to us the salvation that is in Christ alone, not that baptism is something we have to do in order to avoid hell and go to heaven.

Would that be accurate?

-CryptoLutheran

 

[The Liturgist]

If that is the only issue you have with the church in question then I would probably stay. It is a pretty essential doctrine, but also probably not one discussed often. It may be that you can be a weekly attender but not a member, but that is something to discuss with the pastor/minister.

Indeed, this seems reasonable. Although that said I cannot endorse a specific church without knowing much more about it, and I myself do believe in baptismal regeneration, although John Wesley appears not to have, and I greatly admire John Wesley, and there are also some forms of baptismal regeneration that I cannot agree with; it might be more accurate for me to say I believe that baptism is a means of real grace.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Baptism is a pretty important teaching. It is listed among the six fundamental, elementary doctrines of the oracles of God in Heb 5-6.
There is a warning about getting these wrong in content or priority.

. You may not be allowed to move on to the deeper mature doctrines if you do not have these six elementary doctrines down pat.

Repentance from dead works
Faith toward God.
Teachings about baptisms
Laying on of hands
Resurrection of the dead
Eternal Justice

 

[SavedByGrace3]

I may point out certain things and sometimes make suggestion …but I don’t make decisions for others ….that is between you and God.

Additionally, I don’t know what “home church” means …to me …that means you meet in a home (as I do) which, if that is the case, I would have some other suggestion for you.

Regarding home church:

Romans 16:5 KJV
5 Likewise, greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ.

1 Corinthians 16:19 KJV
19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord with the church that is in their house.

Colossians 4:15 KJV
15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.

Philemon 1:2 KJV
2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in thy house:

There are an estimated 50 million Christians in home churches in China.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

My church believes in baptism regeneration and I believe we get our salvation in Jesus alone but everything else in their doctrine i agree with. Should I leave just for this part in their doctrine

Nope, stay, because baptismal regeneration is true.

 

[QuestionQuest74]

So the position is that God uses baptism in His work to bring to us the salvation that is in Christ alone, not that baptism is something we have to do in order to avoid hell and go to heaven.

Would that be accurate?

-CryptoLutheran

Yes

 

[ViaCrucis]

Yes

So then your church does, in fact, believe that salvation is in Jesus alone.

-CryptoLutheran