Radical Discipleship

Zwingli worked hand in hand with a group of radicals with Comrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and the others. They maintained a common front but the issues of the church and infant baptism divided them. It seems that Zwingli himself opposed infant baptism for a time but drew back when he realized that it is essential if a state church is to be maintained. After public disputation with Zwingli, they began to rebaptized believers. The infant baptism was the obvious point of disagreement but the issues were more fundamental. The Anabaptized rejected the state church, to which forced to belong. Christian faith was free and voluntarily, not to be restrained. The church is voluntary association of committed disciples. Baptism is not a requirement for the church to become a member of the church, but rather baptism is the professing of one’s faith.

Becoming a Christian (follower of Jesus), baptism is not the requirement, but it is an act of obedience of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. When I decided to became a Christian, I declined to be baptized in the Baptist Church, because it is my own knowledge that when I got baptized in that Church, I will become Baptist also. My decision to follow Jesus is not about the church, but it was a decision to follow Him with all my heart. 

The Church is just a tool, where I can know God more. I thank the church who cater my spiritual needs and help me grow of my faith in the Lord. This I pray that I could do the same to others, which the desire of my heart to share the gospel to the unreached people and disciple them and lead them to our Lord Jesus Christ.