Corporate Benefit of Baptism

“[A]s I argue throughout my book, baptism is not merely for the person who “gets wet,” but is for the corporate body of Christ. Every time a minster preaches the visible word through baptism, the whole congregation benefits from the sacrament, not merely the solitary recipient of the water” (Rejoinder by J. V. Fesko of Book Review: Word, Water, and Spirit: A Reformed Perspective on Baptism, reviewed by Ryan M. McGraw in The Confessional Presbyterian, Vol. 9, 197).