Fox Street Church of God

Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.

Water baptism is an awesome experience that reveals a family and a church’s responsibilities to guide and nurture people in their walk in Christ.  It is a fundamental experience that should not be neglected, as we speak about water baptism.  But I would like to point out the “whole” of the passage and take it further.

Paul gives conditions on what we are baptized into: