1. But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6:14 (ESV)

2. Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:3 (ESV)

3. A Cruciform
Baptism

4. either been denied as necessary or has been reduced to a mere ritual
Somehow Baptism has
either been denied as necessary or has been
reduced to a mere ritual

5. For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
1 Corinthians 1:17 (ESV)

6. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18 (ESV)

7. Paul, who was not sent to Baptize anyone, is the same one who commanded that everyone be baptized.

8. Could it be that this confusion exists because we have taken “the word of the cross”
out of Baptism?

9. Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:1-2 (ESV)

10. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4(ESV)

12. We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:4 (ESV)

13. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
Romans 6:5 (ESV)

15. Baptism into Christ was Blasphemy to Jews
In the 1st Century
Baptism into Christ was Blasphemy to Jews
Treason to Romans

16. In Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith
In Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:26-27 (ESV)