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Josh Howerton on Baptism

LIVING · EVANGELICAL / BAPTIST-ADJACENT
READ IN A PRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Believers only, on profession of faith

THE POSITION

Believer's baptism. A dedicated episode addresses whether baptism saves, whether to be re-baptized, and infant baptism. Captured from show notes rather than transcript, so the reasoning is thinner than other entries here.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONTwo sources of unequal strength. Eleven doctrinally dense episodes of the Live Free podcast — 989,088 characters of auto-caption transcript — carry all thirteen positions; Howerton hosts that show with Carlos Erazo and Paul Cunningham, captions do not label speakers, and those transcripts were not retained, so a claim is attributed to him personally only where the surrounding text made the speaker unmistakable, and no quotation from them can be reopened. Positions drawn from the show rather than from him by name are the show's. Against that, one solo sermon has been transcribed and retained with its video id and timestamps — 4 Ways to KILL the Spirit of Fear, 16 Aug 2026 — and the two positions it bears on now carry a quotation any reader can open at the second it was said. Eleven positions still carry none, which is the unrepaired half of this figure and not a principle: the remaining 164 sermons are unread. Automatic captioning mangles proper nouns and technical theological terms throughout; corrections are bracketed.

SCRIPTURE
ACTS 2:38 · BSB

38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

8 OTHERS HOLD THIS

Voddie BauchamThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithSecond London Baptist ConfessionJohn MacArthurGavin OrtlundJustin PetersJohn PiperCharles Haddon Spurgeon
Infants included, as a covenant signJACOBUS ARMINIUS · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · TIM KELLER · JOHN OWEN · R.C. SPROUL · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · ZWINGLI
Infants included, and effective for regenerationAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE · CHRYSOSTOM · CONSTANTINOPLE I · IRENAEUS · LUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · NICAEA I · WESLEY
See all 29 figures on baptism →

ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Senior pastor of Lakepointe Church, Dallas–Fort Worth, and host of the Live Free podcast. Researched from primary-source transcripts — see the Live Free Podcast folder.

2 OF 13 POSITIONS QUOTED
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"Josh Howerton on Baptism", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/howerton/baptism (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/howerton/baptism).

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