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Our Test Church in the Book of Acts

In the New Testament, the word “church” is used in three different ways:

1. All the followers of Jesus in the world (the global “body of Christ”)
2. All the followers of Jesus in a city / a region
   Example: the “church in Jerusalem” (Acts 11:22)
3. A group of followers of Jesus that regularly meet together
   Example: the “church in the house of Priscilla and Aquila” (Romans 16:5)

Baptism

The word “baptism” means “to immerse, submerge” as cleansing or washing. Just as Jesus was baptised, we join with Him by getting baptized ourselves. Jesus commands His followers:
“... baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19)

Read Acts 2:38 again, and see how it explains this and shows the main parts of “re-birth”: