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Question: Is there a baptismal formula that must be recited when
one is baptized?

Regarding Matt. 28:19: 
1. Disciples are those who hear, understand, and obey Jesus'
teaching (Matt. 12:46-50).

2. "Suggests a coming-into-relationship with or a coming-under-the-
Lordship-of" (BEC[Carson].597).
     a. Dependence upon them. Acknowledgement of the authority of
the word of God.

3. The term "baptismal formula" trips us up. No evidence that
either these exact words, or those of Acts 2:38, contain a formula
that must be recited word for word.

Acts 2:38
McGarvey.: in the name of Jesus Christ--to show that it is under
his authority that they were to be immersed. (p.40)









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