311. Where are the blessings of Baptism received?
In Baptism, we are adopted as children of God and are made one with Christ and incorporated into His Body, where we continue to receive all that our Lord has promised to His holy people.
Galatians 3:27-29 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Read Acts 2:41-47, where we see how the newly baptized believers were included in church life in teaching, fellowship, "the breaking of bread," and prayer, and Ephesians 2:19-22, which describes baptized believers as citizens and members of God's household.
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