In 2004, at a two day conference in Central Texas, Pastor William O. Einwechter, a Reformed Baptist pastor from Pennsylvania, gave a series of lectures defending the doctrine of Believer’s baptism from a Reformed and Covenantal perspective.
Bill Einwechter makes an exegetically derived covenantal argument that the proper object of baptism are disciples — those believers who have actually professed faith in Christ. With charity towards both dispensational baptists and traditional Reformed paedo-baptists, Mr. Einwechter nonetheless makes the rigorous case that both positions are exegetically inadequate.
In a world where the debates over baptism too often are between dispensational views of believer’s baptism on the one hand, and reformed paedobaptism on the other hand, Pastor Einwechter’s systematic and thorough defense of believer’s baptism from a distinctively reformed and covenantal perspective are exceedingly valuable. For he demonstrates that Reformed Baptists stand strongly in the best Reformation tradition as well as squarely in the Scriptures. The site owner considers them the best he has ever heard on the topic. Though the lectures are currently unavailable, Pastor Einwechter has graciously made available to the site owner his detailed lecture notes from the conference. They are presented here with the hope that they may be a blessing to others as they have been to the site owner. (These lecture notes are copyrighted and are reprinted here by the gracious personal permission of Mr. Einwechter).
