Grosey's Messages

'In the missionary context of the early church, the rebirth signified by baptism was a momentous and life-changing event for the believer. It required a complete break with eitherJudaism or paganism and was an act of joining a poor, marginalized, and unsophisticated church of Christ. Christians felt themselves to be a unique, chosen people, a new kind of people, new creatures, who in Christ had obtained communion with God and a new and authentic life. The work of salvation was confined on God's part to his calling, and when people on their part listened to that call, repented, and believed, they received in baptism the forgiveness of all their past sins. Baptism was the great turning point, the radical change, the decisive passage from a sinful past into the holy present.

Moving beyond this context, as the church gained its members more from its own children than by conversion and baptized infants and children, she had to modify her understanding of the connection between baptism and regeneration.'

He goes on to show how Reformed theologians wrestled with understanding of the connection between baptism and regeneration, 'but found no solution satisfactory to everyone when it came to grounds for baptising the children of believers.'

But being Christocentric and evangelistically oriented should minimise friction between both credobaptists and "paedobaptist-onlys"

perhaps the issue in our sessions is a lack of passion for the gospel itself.
Bavinck again "Let the heart's passion come to the word, and eloquence will be born. And what could not touch our hearts? Do we, along with the whole creation, not feel? Are we not connected to all things? Do we not belong at once to both heaven and earth? Our heart is the melting pot in which all things come together; it is the mirror whereupon all things are reflected. Impressions, perceptions, and emotions come at us from every side. We can be reached by the melodies of angels and the howl of demons, by creation's song and creature's sigh. … And if our heart becomes so affected, so touched … and thus is awoken in passion, regardless of which one (love, hate, sorrow, compassion, indignation, shock, fear, angst, terror), if our conscience is touched and the waves of the life of the soul are set heaving, if our spirit is driven, and is set in motion and delight, then the real source of eloquence is unlocked within us. Deep, inner feeling is the principle of oratory; it is the soul's sensitivity to be jarred and aghast."

And typically when folk are less Christocentric or gospel evangelistically oriented there will be a tendency to magnify differences:
whether on days or foods: such as SDA's -think Romans 14, or either believers baptism as some baptists who reject evangelicals in paedobaptist denominations, or some Anglicans or Others who reject baptists as evangelicals over the issue of baptism.
How nuts is that?
Let's just be passionate about the gospel itself.