Take the Plunge!

ZChurch Message for August 23, 2025 (full service:    • Take the Plunge!  )

Some live on the shoreline — striving, gasping, surviving. But Christ has called us to the deep. Pastor Larry delivers the message “Take the Plunge!” that invites us to a life where death is swallowed up by life, where the shoals give way to the endless sea. Discover a depth of life that few know and even fewer teach. Don’t settle for less. Take the plunge.

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Acts 2:38 38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

1 Corinthians 1:14-17 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; 15Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. 16And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

Galatians 3:27  27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Acts 1:8 8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Matthew 3:11 11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 

Here are five of the most important scriptures for the ‘Take the Plunge’ Bible lesson, focusing on baptism and being immersed in Christ.
• Romans 6:3-4 – Baptism as being buried with Christ and raised to new life.
• Galatians 3:27 – Clothed with Christ through baptism.
• Colossians 2:12 – Buried with Christ in baptism and raised through faith.
• 1 Corinthians 12:13 – All baptized by one Spirit into one body.
• Matthew 28:19-20 – The Great Commission: baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:3-4 KLV 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Galatians 3:27 KJV For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Colossians 2:12 KJV Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

1 Corinthians 12:13 KJV For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

Matthew 28:19-20 KJV 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.