Assertion: baptism | /r/CapableOf | unite believer
Facets:
value: to the body of christ
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the church
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Here we go, then: baptism is a church’s act of affirming and portraying a believer’s union with Christ by immersing him or her in water, and a believer’s act of publicly committing him or herself to Christ and his people, thereby uniting a believer to the church and marking off him or her from the world.
text: This promise was first fulfilled on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4), and the baptism of the Spirit joins every believer to the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13).