Does everyone who joins a local church need to be baptized? What should churches that practice believer's baptism do about those who were 'baptized' as infants? This is a live question for many churches today, and it raises a host of other crucial questions: What is the meaning and function of baptism? Does baptism have any inherent relationship to the local church? How do baptism and the Lord's Supper fit together? What exactly is 'church membership'? To answer the question of whether baptism