Theology & Discipleship - Uniting Church in Australia Working Group on Doctrine

Links

Becoming Disciples website
This site has lots of resources for preparing people for baptism. http://assembly.uca.org.au/TD and click on “Becoming Disciples process”.

Daniel Benedict’s Adelaide talks
Daniel Benedict is the Worship Resources Director for the United Methodist Church, USA. In August 2004 he gave some talks on baptism in Adelaide. These are available at: http://assembly.uca.org.au/TD/disciples/danielb.html. A limited number of video tapes of the talks are available from Rob Bos, Email: robb@nat.uca/org.au for $25.

Bill Loader’s articles
Bill Loader has an excellent article on baptism within the context of the New Testament at: http://www.staff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/BaptismContext.htm. There are also some links to related articles at the bottom of that page.

Baptism in the early church
Aidan Kavanagh has written a very entertaining and enlightening description of a baptismal service in the early church: http://www.marianchs.com/~frodojrr/kavanagh.pdf