Baptism is a work, but it is God’s work.
Baptism is a promise (“For the promise is to you and to your children…” Acts 2:39)
Baptism is the way that God delivers the gift to me; faith is the way that I receive the gift.
Baptism delivers the promise that faith clings to.
Faith is like the beggar’s receiving hand, as Luther put it.
For forty years I led you through the desert … yet your sandals did not wear out." Duet. 29:5
