On the alternative so-called baptismal rite – the salient questions are:
1. Why is it so semi-Pelagian when it claims to be about grace? “Will you help them?” It’s wet… and not in the water sense!
2. Where is the sense of their own pilgrimage which was expressed in “walk with them in the way of Christ?”
3. Where is the truth that we are rebels against God expressed?
4. Where is repentance from sin?
Yes, yet another own goal.
Not to mention they’ll have to rewrite ‘Oh little town of Bethlehem’…