“But to protect the importance of faith we do not have to deny His presence, which is what many people, in opposition to formalism, want to do. They say, ‘No, we don’t want to find Christ in the water, we want to find him just by faith.’ But Luther and Calvin’s point is that the water bears Christ to us . . . Does baptism relate to regeneration? Sure it does. When we look, in faith, to our baptism, we are sure we are regenerate.”
Robert Godfrey, at the Blue Ridge Bible Conference (6/16/97)