It's only water

Irma Fast Dueck is associate professor of practical theology at Canadian Mennonite University and a member of Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is currently on sabbatical, writing a book on believers baptism. For more discussion of the ideas found in this article, see Irma Fast Dueck, “(Re)learning to Swim in Baptismal Waters: Contemporary Challenges in the Believers Church Tradition,†in New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology, edited by Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, and Karl Koop (Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010): 237–55.