Make Disciples Baptizing: God’s Gift of New Life and Christian Witness

by Robert Kolb

From Kolb’s own preface to his book, “As this little volume’s title indicates, the connection comes from the LordHimself. He is the one who first suggested Christian witness and Baptism go together like horse and carriage. He said, ‘Go, make disciples, baptizing and teaching.’ If Christian witness is sometimes described as telling Christ’s story and my story, then inevitably my witnessing will resort to the place and time when his story and my story intersected most decisively, where he drew me into his own death and resurrection and thereby drew me into the family of God. There he gave me a new identity, as one dead to sin, alive in himself, a member of God’s family... It is my hope that this little book will help its readers be effective instruments of the Holy Spirit in incorporating others into the body of Christ’s death and resurrection, and, as a result, into his body, the church.”

105 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Kolb (PhD, University of Wisconsin) is Mission Professor of Systematic Theology emeritus at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of numerous books including The Genius of Luther’s Theology and is coeditor of The Book of Concord (2000 translation).